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Old 10-24-2012, 05:11 PM
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Default Fictional Late 1940's bomber

I've posted a few pictures of a fictional aircraft I'm doodling for fun using Google Sketchup 8.0.
This design is obviously not exactly "balsa friendly", but it would be a fun project for sheeted foam and some cheap electrics. The aircraft has six seven row (!) radials based roughly on the Wright Cyclone series, a full B-36 style greenhouse fishbowl and forward glazing, and will have a full array of defensive armament when it is finished. As you can see, I threw common sense through a woodchipper and instead decided to create the most outragously enormous late 1940's Cold War atomic bomber. Needless to say, the structural insanity of the twin booms is quite dubious at this size, but I figured it looked cool. Isn't that how most aircraft were designed during the Cold War, anyways?

I doubt that I'll pesonally ever build this, but I figured someone might get a kick out of it.


Graeme










[edit: renderings just won't upload. Server error. Lemme try again?]

Sorry for the large photo sizes! Main photo uploader doesn't work...