1950's GB - General Discussion

[Gondor]

Just been watching a video about a little known aircraft which would fit right into this Group Build

I have no intent to build this, it's just something I saw that I thought someone might be interested in. I also checked Scalemates which didn't turn up anything.

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

Interesting but it's a pity the commentator knows very little about aviation!

Anyone who's even slightly in the field knows that the RR engine the F-26 was proposing to use is pronounced NEEN, not 'Nay-Nay'.      

On Fokker's time scale, even if it had been built, and that wasn't in their plans, it would have flown at around the same time as the Comet.

I would make a prefect Whiff, but not for this GB, it's too early. :-)

[scooter]

Anyone who's even slightly in the field knows that the RR engine the F-26 was proposing to use is pronounced NEEN, not 'Nay-Nay'.      

Just like some folks insist on pronouncing MEEM as "Me-Me"

[Wardukw]

If ya want a  good laugh just listen to that guy try to pronounce German words...he's getting better but sit terrible..it's like he's never heard them spoken before .

[McColm]

Looks like a jet powered Dakota  to me.

[Wardukw]

With that nose ..Curtiss C-46 Commando Mac...the 46s nose is more rounded than a 47.

[scooter]

With that nose ..Curtiss C-46 Commando Mac...the 46s nose is more rounded than a 47.

I was thinking C-46 with either a pair of scale-orama Jumos from a 262 or J47s from a Stratojet

[Wardukw]

What ever those engines came from Scooter mate that plane would have never been any good .
Imagine one hard landing with engines that close to the ground...and even how close would those engines have gotten to mother earth when and if that thing was ever fully loaded...that pic that Gondor gave us also show the gear fully extended to.
The designer might as well have put those engines on top of the wing for all the good it would have done.

[Gondor]

On Fokker's time scale, even if it had been built, and that wasn't in their plans, it would have flown at around the same time as the Comet.

I would make a prefect Whiff, but not for this GB, it's too early. :-)

But it would have been in service in the 1950's Kit which is why I added the link to the video here.

Gondor

[McColm]

The Fokker 27 and the Herald look very similar.

[McColm]

With that nose ..Curtiss C-46 Commando Mac...the 46s nose is more rounded than a 47.

You could use the engines from the Sword Skyknight and possibly the wings as well  if anyone wants to build it.

[jcf]

Interesting but it's a pity the commentator knows very little about aviation!

Anyone who's even slightly in the field knows that the RR engine the F-26 was proposing to use is pronounced NEEN, not 'Nay-Nay'.     

On Fokker's time scale, even if it had been built, and that wasn't in their plans, it would have flown at around the same time as the Comet.

I would make a prefect Whiff, but not for this GB, it's too early. :-)

He's confused the river with the Hawai'ian goose, the Nēnē, which is pronounced "nay-nay".

[thundereagle1997]

F-106 upgrade simular to the F-102F but with canard foreplanes a bubble canopy a mig-21 style tailplane 2 GIAT 30 30mm cannons and 2 F-404 engines

[McColm]

A navalized Douglas B-66 Destroyer before the Skywarrior was built.

[zenrat]

...I would make a prefect Whiff, but not for this GB, it's too early. :-)

Is that a whiff which Chris has empowered to oversee the other whiffs dobbing them in reporting their behaviour to him?