Tupolev Tu-13 Kanberra

[PR19_Kit]

This is a placeholder for my Canberra entry in the LHC Group Build. 

More later................

[PR19_Kit]

Here's the kits which will be bashed into the Tu-13, eventually.



Now the Airfix B(I)8 isn't all there, just the wings, and the fuselage that is in the box is from a M'box PR9, and there's also some resin bits, like a rudder and a PR9 bomb bay etc.

And there'll be two U-2s involved in this build......

And yes, the An12, is 1/144 scale. 

[Steel Penguin]

i was wondering till you got to 2 U-2s  now I'm intrigued 

lead on Mr Kit sir,  Lead on!! 

[PR19_Kit]

Neither of the U-2s have any wings of course.................... 

[Gondor]

Intriguing, are the U-2's going to be pods or booms, and will they be afixed to where the engines of the Canberra would normally be so that the engines from the An-12 with wings are fitted to the outer span of the aircraft?

Gondor the inquisitive

[PR19_Kit]

Yes.......................

[Gondor]

I believe that would extend the wings a bit in the process 

Gondor

[Tophe]

I may try to write Kanberra in Russian.
But I was wondering: would that use the E Cyrillic very common letter (pronounced "ye", so you should write Kanbyerra or like many people do: OK for writing Kanberra even if that follows imperfectly Russian pronunciation) or the  rare letter э for "ea" (like in weather")?

Канберра   Канбэрра

[Tophe]

And there'll be two U-2s involved in this build......

Neither of the U-2s have any wings of course.................... 

Uh? Do that mean: 2 long U-2 fuselage with 2 tails? This sounds like a twin-boom project so I clap my hands!

[McColm]

A twin boom Canberra.
The Myasishchev M-17 Stratosphera or M-55 Geophysica springs to mind,(a twin-boom  U-2) although you have overcome the problem of the twin engines with your plan.

[PR19_Kit]

Uh? Do that mean: 2 long U-2 fuselage with 2 tails? This sounds like a twin-boom project so I clap my hands!

No, it's still got one main fuselage (boom) but it will use both U-2 fuselages as well. 

[PR19_Kit]

I may try to write Kanberra in Russian.
But I was wondering: would that use the E Cyrillic very common letter (pronounced "ye", so you should write Kanbyerra or like many people do: OK for writing Kanberra even if that follows imperfectly Russian pronunciation) or the  rare letter э for "ea" (like in weather")?

Канберра   Канбэрра

Well done Tophe, I was looking at ways of doing that, and I wanted to use the back-to-front 'R' in 'Kanberra' but the only method I could find to write that (Alt+1071) didn't work.

[Tophe]

Well done Tophe, I was looking at ways of doing that, and I wanted to use the back-to-front 'R' in 'Kanberra' but the only method I could find to write that (Alt+1071) didn't work.

Thanks for what you say that I did not know, yes I am not joking here.
Well, when I type Alt-1071 here I get / (no use of it)
But when I type the same in MS Word I get Я that I can copy there and paste here.
But this sounds as "ya" which is not appropriate for Kamberra, not Kanberrya, or you are right somehow: what-if Kanbyerrya? which is exotic/funny...

[zenrat]

Neither of the U-2s have any wings of course.................... 

Shame.  I was imagining an X wing...

[PR19_Kit]

Neither of the U-2s have any wings of course.................... 

Shame.  I was imagining an X wing...

You're obviously on an X-Wing kick at the moment Fred.