Shorts Belfast

[Gondor]

Yeap :- Vhttp://smg.photobucket.com/user/Thorvic/library/Aldershot%20C1?sort=3&page=1

Theres the AW-681 with VTOL pods thats now in Midkland Air Museum, and the earlier built HS-681 thats in a Glasgow Museum.

Engines, the HS-681 used Mig-15s from what i recal, the AW one used resin self cast resin engines from a master i made but i cant remember what i used.

Sorry to say that I can't get the link to work Thorvic 

Gondor

[pyro-manic]

The first bit has been mangled somewhere along the way - delete everything before the "smg" and it'll work:

smg.photobucket.com/user/Thorvic/library/Aldershot%20C1?sort=3&page=1

[Thorvic]

Yeap :- http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Thorvic/library/Aldershot%20C1?sort=3&page=1

Theres the AW-681 with VTOL pods thats now in Midkland Air Museum, and the earlier built HS-681 thats in a Glasgow Museum.

Engines, the HS-681 used Mig-15s from what i recal, the AW one used resin self cast resin engines from a master i made but i cant remember what i used.

Sorry to say that I can't get the link to work Thorvic 

Gondor

Fixed it

[jcf]

I will have to give it some more thought Geoff -- when I bought a C-141 vacu-form (1/72) I got the A & B fuselages with it. I'll have a look at it's diameter but when I was doing some match-ups with a C-135, I found it's diameter is very close to it. So I don't think it would be a good donor --

According to Francillon's Putnam on Lockheed the C-141 inherited its fuselage cross-section
from the C-130.

[kitnut617]

I will have to give it some more thought Geoff -- when I bought a C-141 vacu-form (1/72) I got the A & B fuselages with it. I'll have a look at it's diameter but when I was doing some match-ups with a C-135, I found it's diameter is very close to it. So I don't think it would be a good donor --

According to Francillon's Putnam on Lockheed the C-141 inherited its fuselage cross-section
from the C-130.

Hmm!  I'll have to dig the kit out again Jon, been a while since I was looking at making a Boeing C-141  

[Gondor]

What did you use as a base kit for the fuselage Thorvic?

Gondor

[Thorvic]

What did you use as a base kit for the fuselage Thorvic?

Gondor

I think you may see my two builds on the forum somewhere, the first used a Hercules, and was done as a HS-681, but the 2nd was based on the Transall, both used KC-135 wings and a fair amount of re-profiling to get the right look

[Gondor]

What did you use as a base kit for the fuselage Thorvic?

Gondor

I think you may see my two builds on the forum somewhere, the first used a Hercules, and was done as a HS-681, but the 2nd was based on the Transall, both used KC-135 wings and a fair amount of re-profiling to get the right look

Its been a long week ok? 

Gondor

[DarrenP2]

Was the Belfast ever cleared for dropping paratroops, supplies or heavy drop?

[PR19_Kit]

Was the Belfast ever cleared for dropping paratroops, supplies or heavy drop?

Good question. It's got all the right sorts of doors in the right sort of places but I've never seen pics of it happening.

Google tends to get confused by the juxtaposition of 'Belfast' and 'Para'............. 

[Captain Canada]

That would have been neat to see...probably have to swing around and make a few passes over the drop zone !

[DarrenP2]

the heavy drop would have been really impressive

[Thorvic]

I think it might have been as the Landie inside the Cosford example is on an air drop pallet from what i remember

[PR19_Kit]

the heavy drop would have been really impressive

The mind BOGGLES!  

I thought there was a vid of the Beverley doing its heaviest ever drop, a World Record at the time, but I can't find it anywhere.  

The aircraft leaps up about 20-50 ft. as the load goes out the back, I imagine a Belfast doing it would be even more impressive.

[kitnut617]

Was the Belfast ever cleared for dropping paratroops, supplies or heavy drop?

Good question. It's got all the right sorts of doors in the right sort of places but I've never seen pics of it happening.

Google tends to get confused by the juxtaposition of 'Belfast' and 'Para'............. 

That would have been neat to see...probably have to swing around and make a few passes over the drop zone !

Well I've seen a C-17 do a para-drop (when there was a CFB in Calgary), and it did come around and make a few passes to off-load everyone