Tupolev Tu-13 Kanberra

[loupgarou]

It's dreadful! Such short wings! 

[PR19_Kit]

It's dreadful! Such short wings! 

They're exactly the same length as a Canberra B2 wings, which isn't surprising as Tupolev was using the same drawings, or some of them anyway..........

The back story will tell all. 

[rickshaw]

And here's the starboard half of what it will look like eventually.   

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The hole in the top of the green bit of the fuselage will be filled after I've poured enough Liquid Gravity in there to keep the hose wheel on the deck.

Again, another reminder,  this time of my "rational Canberra B.1 prototype" model:

[kerick]

Starts to look a little like a Canuck.

[PR19_Kit]

I like that one too Brian, VERY much. 

Stupidly I can't remember seeing it before, even though I praised it to the heights at the time. 

While the Tu-13 does bear a resemblance to the CF-100's layout, it predates the Canuck by some years. The answer's in the backstory, which is still being written, but is complete in my head. 

[PR19_Kit]

Major stupidity with the Tu-13 build, I managed to glue the wing on the WRONG way round! 

My excuse is that the engine nacelle looks back-to-front anyway, with a small inlet and a HUGE exhaust.

UN-gluing the wing is becoming an even more serious problem though. Being aware that I was only butt-jointing the engine and wing I used some serious glue on the joint, and sawing through the joint is pretty hard work.

[Captain Canada]

Wow ! Of all the things that can happen eh ! 

[Gondor]

Sometimes it's best to draw arrows on things to indicate the top or front, just saying..... 

Gondor the Concerned

[PR19_Kit]

Sometimes it's even better to follow the plan that you've laboriously drawn up too.................   

[Gondor]

Just remember Kit's Second Law of Modelling, I think I have the right law, that anything can be written into the backstory   

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

Absolutely, works every time. 

[kerick]

If it's supposed to be Russian then just go with it. They would have made it fly somehow.

[frank2056]

Although - by law - all Russian/Soviet airplanes must have wing fences.

[kerick]

Although - by law - all Russian/Soviet airplanes must have wing fences.

They keep the airflow from defecting.......

This joke was stolen from someone on this website whose name I don't recall. But it's still a good one!

[loupgarou]

Major stupidity with the Tu-13 build, I managed to glue the wing on the WRONG way round! 

My excuse is that the engine nacelle looks back-to-front anyway, with a small inlet and a HUGE exhaust.

UN-gluing the wing is becoming an even more serious problem though. Being aware that I was only butt-jointing the engine and wing I used some serious glue on the joint, and sawing through the joint is pretty hard work.

But it was back to front, or top to under? In the second case, it's not too noticeable...Of course, the wing efficiency would be... ahem... impaired...