Shorts/Canadair 400 (CL-44J)

jcf · August 02, 2018, 03:03:50 PM

Yep, it was a real world proposal.

The question is what to name the beastie.

PR19_Kit · August 02, 2018, 04:11:20 PM

What are you going to do with it though? That may effect a suitable name...........

jcf · August 02, 2018, 09:43:52 PM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 02, 2018, 04:11:20 PM
What are you going to do with it though? That may effect a suitable name...........

Transport Command, painted up like the Brittanias.

Probably go for the bare metal scheme rather than the grey, and it'll be primarily freight, so
it won't have a long line of windows.

PR19_Kit · August 02, 2018, 10:16:55 PM

Hmmm, boringly the RAF would have probably called it the Britannia C2, but we're not hidebound by such silliness here.

AS.12 · August 02, 2018, 11:30:47 PM

You could nick the Britannic name, which is what the SC.5 was until becoming Belfast.

NARSES2 · August 03, 2018, 07:03:39 AM

Interesting looking aircraft. There's a lot of fuselage on either side of the main wheels. For some reason that looked wrong to my brain at first, but then my brain just seemed to go "oh, ok then"

loupgarou · August 03, 2018, 08:42:48 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 03, 2018, 07:03:39 AM
Interesting looking aircraft. There's a lot of fuselage on either side of the main wheels. For some reason that looked wrong to my brain at first, but then my brain just seemed to go "oh, ok then"

To me too. But to me it still looks like the proportions between forward and rear of he wings are different in the boxart and the model.
Also, it did have a swing-tail? I see suspicious bumps on one fuselage half.

jcf · August 03, 2018, 10:11:25 AM

The swingtail was introduced on the CL-44D4, the CL-44J was a stretched
CL-44D4, in the RW the swingtail was not operable on the J, but seeing
as were not in the RW ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-44

I suppose it could use the RCAF CL-44-6/CC-106 Yukon name.

The first model Britannias had a fuselage length of 114', the CL-44J length
was 151' 10", one heck of a stretch.

PR19_Kit · August 03, 2018, 01:26:59 PM

It's a nice kit, I have one too, and I did plan to build the Mega-CL44 built by Conroy, which had an enlarged upper lobe, but I never found the right size tube to make the upper lobe.

Rheged · August 03, 2018, 02:11:47 PM

If it's not quite a Yukon, it might be a Nunavit. Or one could use one of the old names for the parts of the North West Territories A Franklin, a MacKenzie or even a Keewatin. I'm sure that one of our Canadian contributors will correct me if I've got it ~~wrnog~~ wrong.

McColm · August 03, 2018, 05:04:09 PM

Why not call it the Sovereign?

jcf · August 03, 2018, 10:20:16 PM

Nunavut has only existed since 1999, so it's not a '60s - '70s period candidate.

NARSES2 · August 04, 2018, 02:26:18 AM

For some reason I find naming my What If's one of the hardest parts of the creative process. Everything I come up with just doesn't seem to sound right whilst other's suggestions sound spot on. You explain it

kitnut617 · August 04, 2018, 06:18:38 AM

Nice project Jon, I'm converting one of the Airways Vac Forms 1/72 Britannia 300's I have into a CL-44. All the references I could find on the two would only give the overall length, took me forever to find some info on how long the plugs were fore and aft of the wing ---