Twin-Whirlwind & Catalina…

[B777LR]

This design of engine "booms" will allow radiators, and fitting of the two aft wheels of a tricycle gear design

[B777LR]

Another possiblity is removing the vertical stabilizer, and adding the two vertical stabilizors from the P-38, at the tip of each horizontal stabilizor. It will make it fit for this part of the forum, as it will be Twin boom and twin tail!  

[Tophe]

B777LR, your P-38/Mosquito mix is indeed a nice new Lightning , but I do not understand   how it matches the view from above of the single-fuselage P-38 of yours: where do the engine nacelles stop aft? (before the tail)  

[B777LR]

I dont understand, do you mean where the engine nacelles end on the drawing from the side?  I will make a drawing with red to mark that now...

[B777LR]

Here it is:

[Tophe]

Thanks, I understand perfectly now! And I do appreciate...

[Tophe]

Another possiblity is removing the vertical stabilizer, and adding the two vertical stabilizors from the P-38, at the tip of each horizontal stabilizor. It will make it fit for this part of the forum, as it will be Twin boom and twin tail!

Still another possibility is zwilling your single fuselage P-38s dear... You are not falling outside the subject, just enriching it again and again... Thanks!

[B777LR]

Saab B-18Z


And that twin P-38 that now hardly resembles a P-38

[Tophe]

I must admit I did not know much the Swedish SAAB B-18... Google told me: twin DB.605 with a first flight in 1944. Nice: one more item into my 1939-45 Zwilling collection. Thanks  

[B777LR]

Ive got many more from my secret source  

[B777LR]

And now, a G-444

[B777LR]

MORE drawings! B)

Su-25Z
B-17WB (With Boom)
B-17Z

[Tophe]

B-17WB (With Boom)
B-17Z

Nice drawings!
I see clearly the advantages of the B-17Z (double load or range) but how would you justify the B-17WB? Imagine and tell us! (is the lonely rear tail gunner radioactive, so separated from the rest of the crew? or is this a mother plane with a P-51 fighter below whose fin is in the free central space?)

[B777LR]

but how would you justify the B-17WB? Imagine and tell us!

Hmmm, the booms remove some of the weight from what was a large fuselage, and a larger payload can be carried. Also reduces radar signature, and hitting it with flak is harder, but makes it more vulnurable if hit B)  

[Tophe]

This topic's title was speaking of Twin-Whirlwind while I have drawn none yet... Spending 4 hours to draw the Whirlwind basis seemed too much for me, BUT my publisher required me to draw one for a book of his own, about the inventor of the T-tail Charles de Rougé (JHM grand-father?)... So at last I am able to update my Mustang-based gallery of Twin-Whirlwinds (posted on July 30th 2005):