Twin-Whirlwind & Catalina…

[Tophe]

No offense, every new idea is much welcome, dear Kurlan. I mean it.
And when they are good practical/technical reasons to change and improve, it is even better, making us feel like serious engineers, partly, while dreaming...
So, the conclusion is: full thanks for this enrichment to the collection That was my opinion but it is better written down to avoid misunderstanding (sorry if I was looking hurt  miswriting in English which I do not speak fluently ): thanks again!    

[Archibald]

Tophe the name Douglophe remind me the Kougloff, ultra-heavy cake my grand mother make (do you know it?) Nice twin XP-67...

[GTX]

Tophe,

I do believe that I may have come across a twinned beast that you haven't yet featured - I may be wrong though.  The Tupolev ANT-22 / MK-1:









Regards,

Greg

[Tophe]

Thanks for this post. While... this is a Real 1930 design, and I was gathering here  fake 1939-45 twin-boomers missing in my books. This may explain why not all twin-boomers are included here.
Webmaster: how can I change the topic title and/or sub-title?

[Tophe]

Well,
- as a Twin-Firefly has been seriously considered by Fairey in 1950 (topic http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum//index...showtopic=10132 ),
- as the Firefly's first flight is dated 1941,
I cannot believe such idea was absolutely not considered before 1946... Not as Twin-Mk5, all right, but a Twin-Mk1 1944 seems very possible:

(from the Flightpath 1/48 model at http://www.djparkins.clara.net/fltpath/fp4...postwar_raf.htm )

[Tophe]

pourquoi pas un double Bloch 174? ca serait plutot mignon non? en plus comme je te dis il y a les kits de Heller qui me font de l'oeil à chaque fois que je vais acheter une maquette.

Here is the Bloch 1774 model that you dreamed of, still a dream alas, not plastic yet. Do it someday... Those noses are so pretty.
from http://perso.wanadoo.fr/modelisme.maquette...e/maquette2.htm  

[GTX]

Thanks for this post. While... this is a Real 1930 design, and I was gathering here fake 1939-45 twin-boomers missing in my books. This may explain why not all twin-boomers are included here.

No problem.  Anyway, I found one more picture of the beast that I thought I would share:



Regards,

Greg

[elmayerle]

Well,
- as a Twin-Firefly has been seriously considered by Fairey in 1950 (topic http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum//index...showtopic=10132 ),
- as the Firefly's first flight is dated 1941,
I cannot believe such idea was absolutely not considered before 1946... Not as Twin-Mk5, all right, but a Twin-Mk1 1944 seems very possible:

(from the Flightpath 1/48 model at http://www.djparkins.clara.net/fltpath/fp4...postwar_raf.htm )

How about a twin-Firefly derived from the jet-boosted one that showed up in another thread?  Be just the thing to engage a Ca.183bis with it's "booster".

[Archibald]

So nice... what name? Bloch MB-348?  

[Tophe]

The humble Tophe worker called it MB-1774, but yes, Archibald, you are the creator, deserving full property on baptism name, so for History and the centuries to come, this plane will be the Archibloch MB-174x2=348, all right. I will be glad enough if the engines celebrate my work caughing: Tof-Tof-Tof...

[Tophe]

September 1944, Lockheed design bureau:
– We need now a single-engine high speed plane, and the most promising seems this Belyayev/BMW/Blohm-und-Voss way: mid-engine prop, with a central airscrew in the fuselage, in front of the tail, behind the cockpit!
– Yes, but there is no room anymore for the nose devices!
– Let make it asymmetric: cockpit and nose will be on port side.
– And the fuselage is so fragile with this propeller link!
– Let support it by an extra boom, holding the tail.  
The single-engined Lightning P-38S was born   (and dead... ).

[Archibald]

Well I thought about bloch 274. sounds logical no?  

[Archibald]

Hope there was a ejector seat on the P.38S otherwise the propeller would change the pilot into some tranches of saucisson... nice picture tophe as usual. The P.38 is a big source of inspiration for you with its twin-tails...  

[GTX]

P-38S pilots were trained to only think one thing in the event of baling out - Jump to the left, Jump to the left, Jump to the left, Jump to the left, Jump to the left...

Regards,

Greg

[Tophe]

Yes, that is why – informed of this training issue  – Clarence Kelly Johnstophe, the famous crazy designer , immediately added a single car door (with canopy not jettisonable anymore) to its P-38S becoming P-38Scar ^_^ . The USAF refused, saying that it was not allowed to have such scar on the pretty Lightning face...

PS. Of course, there would habe been 2 versions: with starboard prop & port door (for right-handed pilots) and the opposite (for left-handed ones), presented here to show the asymmetrical door.