Boeing B-54B, the Half-Way Bomber

[Rick Lowe]

And spare runner, too. At least using that, the trenches you have to fill are obvious without a coat of paint... 

Coming along well, Kit - hoping to see it finished as and when. 

[NARSES2]

Various posts on the X-13 and XF-85 have been moved to the new threads.

Chris

[Old Wombat]

Ah, now I understand!

[NARSES2]

Ah, now I understand!

Yup, apologies but the site has a rather "messy" way of moving posts from one thread to another I'm afraid and it was a bit beyond me given the number that needed shifting. This was the easiest way for me to deal with it, and it still took a couple of hours 

[Spino]

@PR19_Kit there's probably a good reason why you don't see turboprops on pylons.  We are probably all familiar with how dangerous the Avia S.199s with the HE-111 engines were.  What made them so dangerous was the large, wide prop blades combined with a very bad gear ratio for a single engine aircraft - this created an enormous amount of torque and made the plane prone to flipping over on takeoff if the throttle was advanced too quickly.  I imagine that turboprops would impose a potentially dangerous amount of torque on the pylon if they were so mounted, though that would be negated by having stacked contra-rotating props like this build does.  Something about it just doesn't seem quite right though, but that may just be me.

[PR19_Kit]

Heavens yes, that's why I've kept the contraprops from the Bear as part of the build.

Or I will do when I get back to it. 

[Wardukw]

Kit it's the contraprops which are really going to set this off..normal propellers I think wouldn't cut it for looks..when ya get back to it that is   

[McColm]

Just make the landing gear taller

[PR19_Kit]

Just make the landing gear taller

The main legs can stay as they are as I can position their upper anchorage point to almost any height in the fuselage.

At least I THINK I can anyway, I've not actually cut plastic on that front as yet............ 

[McColm]

Hi PR19_Kit ,
The Boeing Model 464-25 is worth studying as it looks uncannily like your build. I would recommend the 'Boeing B-47 Stratrojet and B-52 Stratofortress: Origins and Evolution, book written by Scott Lowther.
I paid £27 for my copy.

[PR19_Kit]

I think that's the one that ended up as the B-55 proposal., but there were so many of them!

[McColm]

There's more than seven different concepts for the B-55, the delta wing looks very similar to the Grumman A-12 Avenger design.