Out of Retirement - Discussion thread

[TheChronicOne]

You mean like a BC-97 bomber using the B-29 bomb bays and gun turrets? That's doable 

IT's a really cool idea, go for it!! Throw some camo on there and it would look like a beastly thing that means business.

[kerick]

Could this include things brought out from the boneyard for NASA or some other agency like the RB-57 was? Reports are circulating that NASA's RB-57s are flying some sort of high altitude communication missions over Afghanistan. What other aircraft could be resurrected for off the wall missions?
The AH-1 Cobra helicopters acquired by the US Forest Service to help fight forest fires would qualify.

[Weaver]

Could this include things brought out from the boneyard for NASA or some other agency like the RB-57 was? Reports are circulating that NASA's RB-57s are flying some sort of high altitude communication missions over Afghanistan. What other aircraft could be resurrected for off the wall missions?
The AH-1 Cobra helicopters acquired by the US Forest Service to help fight forest fires would qualify.

F-111 dug out of the boneyard for NASA to act as chase for a some sort of spaceplane after re-entry. In real life they used T-38s, so try to concoct a scenario where the chase-plane needs both range and speed. The EF-111 Sparkvark proves that you can put a damned great pod on the top of the fin, so why not fit a tubular pod with a infra-red camera looking through a swivelling prism setup so it can photograph the spaceplane as it passes overhead?

[kerick]

Sounds good to me! Go for it!
I started a USFS Firewatch Cobra but had a paint disaster. I'd have to start a new one for the GB. I could apply the idea to some other aircraft.

[scooter]

Sounds good to me! Go for it!
I started a USFS Firewatch Cobra but had a paint disaster. I'd have to start a new one for the GB. I could apply the idea to some other aircraft.

USFS Apache?

[TomZ]

USFS Apache?

Apache isn't retired though, is it?

TomZ

[Mossie]

It will be some day!

[Weaver]

I read that after the official retirement of the Phantom from service, the RAF kept a few of them in flyable condition as a reserve force for a few years. What if something had happened to make them use that force? There might have been an extra demand on resources that the Tornado F.3 force couldn't meet, or there might have been a technical problem that grounded the latter. In either event, you could do an RAF Phantom with AIM-132 ASRAAMs on the wing pylons as a subtle whiff.

[zenrat]

You mean like a BC-97 bomber using the B-29 bomb bays and gun turrets? That's doable 

No.  Like a B17 based passenger or cargo plane with a double bubble fuselage.

[scooter]

I read that after the official retirement of the Phantom from service, the RAF kept a few of them in flyable condition as a reserve force for a few years. What if something had happened to make them use that force? There might have been an extra demand on resources that the Tornado F.3 force couldn't meet, or there might have been a technical problem that grounded the latter. In either event, you could do an RAF Phantom with AIM-132 ASRAAMs on the wing pylons as a subtle whiff.

Or a certain South American nation tried to make for a certain set of islands in the South Atlantic...again

[sandiego89]

I read that after the official retirement of the Phantom from service, the RAF kept a few of them in flyable condition as a reserve force for a few years. What if something had happened to make them use that force? There might have been an extra demand on resources that the Tornado F.3 force couldn't meet, or there might have been a technical problem that grounded the latter. In either event, you could do an RAF Phantom with AIM-132 ASRAAMs on the wing pylons as a subtle whiff.

I think the RAF should have kept a few Phantoms (and later Tornado ADV's) in the extra hardened shelters at Mt. Pleasant after official retirement.

[nighthunter]

I'll be entering the USS Nathan James NCC-1280. Brought out of retirement and refit in the 2370's with "current" tech for the Dominion war, that the Federation was desperate for ships.

[jcf]

You mean like a BC-97 bomber using the B-29 bomb bays and gun turrets? That's doable 

No.  Like a B17 based passenger or cargo plane with a double bubble fuselage.

Basically a 307 with an exaggerated C-46 style fuselage.

[nighthunter]

Y'all are concentrating on the Jug, when if you Look at the P-38, (Better fighter than the Stang and Jug) was retired in '49...

[McColm]

You mean like a BC-97 bomber using the B-29 bomb bays and gun turrets? That's doable 

No.  Like a B17 based passenger or cargo plane with a double bubble fuselage.

Basically a 307 with an exaggerated C-46 style fuselage.

I think that I have attempted  to built something like this before using the
C-46 ( S+ M Model 1/72 kit) with the wings and engines from the B-17G, as I couldn't get the original wings to fit. I might have ruined this by removing the two outer engines,  which resigned it to the bin. Well there's always next time