Single-engined Canberras

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Here you are (maybe with the risk to burn her own tail):

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Ahem, why the asymmetric version would burn its own tail and not the normal one? Answer: no, both because I had forgotten the tailplane's dihedral! I am correcting below, not easy but possible:

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Anyway I may dream what-ifly of a twin-boom version of Camberra project, 1945, or single-engine asymmetric joke, 1950.

And why not twin-boom AND asymmetric at the same time, in 1945?

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I had forgotten the tailplane's dihedral!

Here are the corrected lines, this does not look much different when the tailplane is opposite to the jet(s) but stands as reference (not for History but for my final collection of drawing jokes):

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Here you are (maybe with the risk to burn her own tail):

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Canberra-persp-o2.jpg

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I correct also the dihedral on the asymmetric ones on this side:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Canberra-persp-v2.jpg

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Maybe I should explore other ways to be single-engined for a Canberra, not only asymmetric and twin-boom but also:
. tailless
. flying wing
. canard
. (not normal, Hunter-like, because this is not what-if enough, maybe)

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Tail-less single-engined Canberra:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Canberra-persp-ad.jpg

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Canberra single-engined flying wing:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Canberra-persp-ae.jpg

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A different twin-boomer, not derivative of Vampire but of the Canberra Flying wing:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Canberra-persp-af.jpg

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And, at last for this group of Canberras, the canard layout:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Canberra-persp-ah.jpg

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This layout was considered but rejected for uneasy engine maintenance:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Canberra-persp-ai.jpg

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This modified version required a smaller ladder for maintenance (years before the TriStar then DC-10):

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Canberra-persp-am.jpg

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And from the regular Canberra: why 2 jets and 1 fuselage? maybe better would be 2 fuselages and 1 jet...:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Canberra-persp-ao.jpg
EDIT: this slanting view is close to the top view I posted on July 1st (with a less solid tail)

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A twin-fuselage version with rear jet was also designed:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Canberra-persp-ar.jpg