Super Stretch DC8

[kitnut617]

I was going to paint the engines this evening, but...............

Looking through the RW pics of the -70s Series aircraft reminded me that the CFM-56 engines have these socking great strakes, two per engine, which are not supplied with the kit. Or indeed on any CFM-56 engine kits AFAIK.

The strakes are included with the Revell Airbus 321. Smaller than the ones you found though.

I suspect the size of the strakes has something to do with the rest of the airframe, and how well they produce the required vortices. The ones on that DC8-73 in the pic I posted are pretty huge, and agree with most other pics of them on DC8s that I could find.

Interestingly the CFM-56 fitted Boeing 707s seem to have much smaller and tri-angular strakes on their engines and the USAF's KC-135Rs don't have strakes at all! 

The Airfix E-4 AWAC has the strakes on the inner side of the inner engines, only they're quite long. You can just make them out in this photo.

[PR19_Kit]

Weirder and weirder........... 

[PR19_Kit]

Well, it's done at last, or as done as I can manage anyway. The landing gear doors and stuff are attached, minus the forward nosewheel doors that keep falling into the gear bay. But a) you can't see them from above and b) I'm working on a strut thingie to keep it at the correct height later on.

It's meant to have landing light and nav light lenses but they're so small I can't see which way they're meant to fit so I've used PVA glue for the lenses instead.

[kitnut617]

That's bloody marvelous Kit   

[nighthunter]

Beautiful job on that, Kit. Must be an absolute bear to land though, with as shallow as she would need land.

[kerick]

That is amazing!!!
The paint on the wings is especially awesome!

[PR19_Kit]

Glad you all like it, thanks.

Actually there's hardly any wing paint Mr. Kerick, it's Halford's Ford Stratos silver all over, with the details added with decals. 

[zenrat]

Fab 

[loupgarou]

Beautiful. The last photos show a strange effect, the wings appear to have orange leading or trailing edges, must be the red cloth you posed it on.

[TheChronicOne]

Most glorious!!!   

[PR19_Kit]

Beautiful. The last photos show a strange effect, the wings appear to have orange leading or trailing edges, must be the red cloth you posed it on.

It's my new camera, it does weird things to colours if I take the pics at too close a range for some reason. It's very handy, but not as consistent as my big Pentax DSLR.

[JayBee]

Utterly FANTASTIC!

[NARSES2]

Really has worked out well Kit 

[Dizzyfugu]

Lovely - I wonder if it has an extra tail wheel like the Il-62? Just in case... 

[scooter]

So many superlatives being bandied about.