Lockheed Lightning cargos

Tophe · November 03, 2022, 02:32:51 PM

Thanks Kit, I am happy I am not the only one in the whif World with such opinion.

Tophe · November 12, 2022, 06:00:38 AM

A 11th triplex of Cargo Lightning proposals: XCP-38S, YCP-38S, CP-38S, all disSymetric.

Tophe · November 12, 2022, 06:28:29 AM

a 12th triplex of Cargo Lightning proposals: CP-38T-1 and T-2 Twin-Lightnings, CP-38T-3 Tandem-Lightning.

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Now that makes 36 designs and this is a "round" count somehow: in French we often speak of "seeing 36 candles"...

Tophe · November 13, 2022, 08:13:19 AM

37th to 39th.

Tophe · November 15, 2022, 01:58:57 AM

40th to 42th, jet cargo Lightnings here.

Tophe · November 16, 2022, 03:49:23 PM

43th to 45th, asymmetric cargo Lightnings again.

Tophe · November 17, 2022, 06:05:55 PM

Now 46th to 48th Cargo Lightnings

Quote from: Tophe on November 12, 2022, 06:28:29 AMCP-38T-1 and T-2 Twin-Lightnings, CP-38T-3 Tandem-Lightning.

It is not necessarily twin OR ELSE tandem, it can be twin AND tandem, CP-38T-4 to T-6:

Tophe · November 26, 2022, 11:27:44 AM

CP-38R-1Z full load, half load, empty:

Tophe · December 05, 2022, 08:49:28 AM

Mixing 1/72 and 1/144 parts of Cargo Lightnings:

Tophe · December 06, 2022, 05:06:45 PM

Zwilling/Twin versions of the last one:

Tophe · December 14, 2022, 10:07:46 AM

Now Lightning cargos with only push-pull engines on the centerline:

Tophe · December 17, 2022, 04:43:40 AM

And surprising twin-boom cargos without rear door (but with rear jet exhaust, front door):

Tophe · December 25, 2022, 12:10:26 AM

Concerning 4-engined Lightning cargos, I shyly tried to follow Captain Canada, but I can go further myself after all, with push-pull engines:

Tophe · December 25, 2022, 09:05:58 PM

Quote from: Tophe on November 01, 2022, 10:52:28 PMMr Burnelli, seeing a CP-38L, suggested to join the two separate holds into a huge lifting one.

There were other Burnelli Lightning cargos, with lateral cockpits:

Tophe · January 08, 2023, 07:52:48 AM

Still other Burnelli-Lightnings cargo: