Grumman F6F-11 HeavenCat (finished page 3)

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After holidays my son is going back to school Monday, so my dear wife offered a gift in the toyshop: one for her son and one for the father (driver)... Si I got a Heller F6F-5 1/72 Hellcat kit (with joy!):

My project is a little transformation: probably swept wings, maybe T-tail, mainly removing the ugly radial nose, I think with using only the top of the fuselage and having the propeller on the top of the tail (maybe pusher). This will be no more Hellcat but Heavencat.

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My project is a little transformation: probably swept wings, maybe T-tail, mainly removing the ugly radial nose, I think with using only the top of the fuselage and having the propeller on the top of the tail (maybe pusher). This will be no more Hellcat but Heavencat.

A LITTLE transformation?? 

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Yes, a shy little transformation, sorry: not asymmetric, not zwilling, rather normal...
And in 2010 I already transformed a radial nose into better ( P-47 at https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=30280.0  )

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Here is my project in drawing:

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not zwilling

I will not build zwillings this time but it is easy to draw:

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not asymmetric

As well:

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not zwilling

I will not build zwillings this time but it is easy to draw:

I've always wanted to try that with a Skyraider! You could use two A-1Es with the large cockpits and call it a passenger aircraft for those long flights around the South Pacific.

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Good project! I hope someday you will dare trying it actually...
Not in plastic but with Photoshop, our friend Stargazer2006 (not coming here anymore, and called bispro on Deviant art) made it somehow:
https://www.deviantart.com/bispro/art/Douglas-YA6D-1-Twin-Raider-260198729

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That's it! Probably a little too much wingspan for aircraft carrier parking. We can let the Marines use it from land bases.

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I forgot: there was a Twin-Skyraider in my book "The end of Forked Ghosts" in 2004, and I add today a short span version for you:

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Here are the parts I may use:

(no need for me of undercarriage, weapons, cylinders...)
But, as the nose cover is separate, as I planned to cut away most of the fuselage halves... I feel a huge temptation to cut the back also, into a twin-boomer... (asymmetric maybe)...

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I feel a huge temptation to cut the back also, into a twin-boomer... (asymmetric maybe)...

No! Here is the test flight team speaking: "this is not a matter of what-if (= ridiculous) model fantasy  , this is serious for safety  : the XF6F-11 has not enough fin control and suffers from a high torque effect, requiring transformation into the better YF6F-11":

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After less than 5 hours months of test flight, the final settings have been decided it seems: less fin, more tailplane, less rear propeller, more asymmetry:

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Ahem, the butcher came and... the seeds of the twin-boom F6F-11 have been created.

The twin-boom F6F-11 has not been born yet, but the embryo is alive! I may go to jail in my country for saying that, sorry, so "I mean; what-if it were already alive (joke)..."

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Starting to take shape...: