Twin-Whirlwind & Catalina…

[Rafael]

I always thought ol' Willy had good ideas, but the party's cronies were always refusing him and his advances. Were not for that, today we'd all be using SS caps instead of our beloved whiffer's hats.

Thanks for the mention, Tophe, i am honored to share this passion with you!!!

Rafa.

[Tophe]

What if the camera had not been invented? Reconnaissance Lightnings would have got an Observer in the nose, with a better view than on the P-38J Droop-Snoot:

[B777LR]

A real world twin-hunter!

[Tophe]

Addition to the gallery of Japanese-designed what-if warbirds: Kolgenflog and Ki23-ib-3 at http://www.warbirds.jp/kakuki/kyosaku/sakuki23.html

[Tophe]

Thanks to the nice author of http://www.qnet.com/~skif/phpage13.html here is the Sorg So.20. It was powered by an electric engine (probably due to the fuel shortage in Germany 1945!). Test-flight reports (translated): "flies great", and this is very true, only the date is not (completely) sure - but the swastika stands as a very proof, like on our non-flying what-if models (Me 262Z, Me 274 etc).
This manufacturer designed, and built, and flew, 40 different twin-boomers, for several countries (and civilians after war, 1977-2006 mainly...).

[Tophe]

Low-drag versions of the P-38 & P-58, using stabilizing device (like the one presented at http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum//index...80&#entry188114 ) instead of fins:

[B777LR]

Test-flight reports (translated): "flies great", and this is very true,

due to the twin booms and twin tail and conservative engine        

[Tophe]

Maybe I was wrong in Forked Ghosts, saying that the weird asymmetric RP-38 prototype was perhaps the forerunner of a Reconnaissance high speed plane without central pod. (I know the story saying this was to test a lateral piloting for the P-82, but...) it may also have been the forerunner of a night fighter, before the radar size was known to be acceptable as small, below a nose and not entire pod.
RP: Recon-Pursuit or Radar-Pursuit?  (or else ... not Routine-Pursuit  for sure, Restricted-Pursuit is possible but not funny ).

[Tophe]

Do you know the push-pull 3-engined PP-61? ^_^  No ? Historians  don't either...

[Tophe]

Of course, a 4-engined Zwilling version was designed by the Northophe team: PP-61Z...

[Tophe]

And the single-engined pusher Ps-61, XP-54-like, with its double Ps-61Z (yes, the P-61 is twin-engined, I agree)...

[B777LR]

I give you a challenge tophe!  

How to make a twin using a AH-64 and an concorde!

[Tophe]

I may try but this is not the right topic for this. This one is for 1939-45 fake designs, I just do not know how to change the title/sub-title to be more clear...

[Aircav]

Love the Handley-Page "HOWDAH"
http://www.warbirds.jp/kakuki/kyosaku/23ki/howdah.htm

[Tophe]

Thanks Aircav, I've added it at the end of my asymmetric-planes Web-site: http://cmeunier.chez-alice.fr/Asymm_addition.htm
Nice addition...