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Offline Tim Wescott

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Fantasy scale, if only I had the time
« on: September 17, 2019, 01:57:52 PM »
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Offline Ken Culbertson

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Re: Fantasy scale, if only I had the time
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2019, 02:58:56 PM »
But, I don't have the time...

https://www.bellross.com/mods/watches/Racing-Bird/
and I don't have the beer....

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Cool plane - I can see a stunter evolving from it.
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Re: Fantasy scale, if only I had the time
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2019, 05:40:56 PM »
Cool plane - I can see a stunter evolving from it.

Oh, me too.
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Re: Fantasy scale, if only I had the time
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2019, 05:46:36 PM »
Oh, me too.

Heck, it probably was designed with that in mind.  Unfortunately, racing planes don't get pretty points in the scoring.  The limits are horsepower, drag, and G's.
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Re: Fantasy scale, if only I had the time
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2019, 07:05:11 AM »
Heck, it probably was designed with that in mind.  Unfortunately, racing planes don't get pretty points in the scoring.  The limits are horsepower, drag, and G's.
So true - maybe I could let be known that it was a modified SV-11 LL~ LL~ LL~
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Re: Fantasy scale, if only I had the time
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2019, 06:38:02 PM »
Has it really flown?  Looks like a computer generated watch ad.   ???
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Offline Tim Wescott

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Re: Fantasy scale, if only I had the time
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2019, 06:51:22 PM »
Has it really flown?  Looks like a computer generated watch ad.   ???

It's a computer generated watch add.  Somewhere amongst the drivel they admit it.

But it's Really Cool Looking (which you can do, if your airplane only flies in Computer Land).
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Re: Fantasy scale, if only I had the time
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2019, 03:04:03 PM »
Sort of a modernized Bugatti 100. Skeptical about the long cooling exhaust ducts due to internal flow drag. Lots of style, probably not functionally optimized. (Duct rumble, etc.) Note how they attempt to dump out in a higher pressure zone. More drag.

On the topic of fantasy scale, here's a new wrinkle for you guys--well, it was for me. There is a construction article in an old American Modeler from 1957 of a Russian jet. This stunter was based on US Intelligence of the existence of such a plane and what it looked like. It was kitted by several plastic model companies back then. First as a MIG-19, then as a YAK-25. Might have been a one-off or prototype, but then again, those designations were eventually used for planes that did not look anything like the plastic kits or the stunt plane. Still, it looks really cool--and I think it qualifies under Tim's category of Fantasy Scale.

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