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Tobius
Post subject: Re: FD scale Never Built DesignsPosted: February 17th, 2017, 4:53 am
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One question... was the vertical stabilizer really that big?


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Post subject: Re: FD scale Never Built DesignsPosted: February 17th, 2017, 5:20 am
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Yes. That was Douglas-style for the their big props. If you compare it to the C-74/C-124 Globemasters you can see that B-30 is part of the same family, a different family to the DC-4/DC-6/DC-7 line.


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Tobius
Post subject: Re: FD scale Never Built DesignsPosted: February 17th, 2017, 6:21 am
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Sheepster wrote:
Yes. That was Douglas-style for the their big props. If you compare it to the C-74/C-124 Globemasters you can see that B-30 is part of the same family, a different family to the DC-4/DC-6/DC-7 line.
Thanks. I'm just used to Douglas square off instead of Boeing French curve and the size threw me. It just looks "weird" on a Douglas made plane.


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Post subject: Re: FD scale Never Built DesignsPosted: February 17th, 2017, 7:14 am
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Ultimate F.27 version, the unbuilt Fokker-VFW P.305 Commuter

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Planned with Avco Lycomming ALF 502 turbofan.
Looks very awkward, as they retained the rear of the Dart nacelle as a massive undercarriage blister on the wings.


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Post subject: Re: FD scale Never Built DesignsPosted: February 17th, 2017, 8:41 am
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Two interesting additions Sheepster.

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Post subject: Re: FD scale Never Built DesignsPosted: February 17th, 2017, 9:41 am
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Woah, I had absolutely no idea that someone ever planned to turn the F27s into jets.

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Post subject: Re: FD scale Never Built DesignsPosted: February 17th, 2017, 2:41 pm
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This jet conversion of F27 is new for me also. I learned something interesting today.


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Post subject: Re: FD scale Never Built DesignsPosted: February 19th, 2017, 11:30 am
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Douglas's last attempt at a piston airliner, the DC-8 Skybus. As development of the Mixmaster, the mechanics of the driveshaft from the engines mounted behind the cockpit, to the rear propellers proved to be the project's Achilles Heel, and as projected costs increased airline interest waned.
If the aircraft had been able to get to the construction phase before it was cancelled, Douglas's arcane numbering allocation system would have renamed the aircraft the DC-8E - so I'm labelling it the DC-8E to avoid confusion.

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Post subject: Re: FD scale Never Built DesignsPosted: February 19th, 2017, 7:08 pm
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Nice additions.
IMHO in case of the Douglas instead of that reasonable but - unless actually mentioned somewhere in the documents - speculative "DC-8E" the "DC-8 (year of the design)" would be perhaps more fitting. (but I'm not insisting)


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Post subject: Re: FD scale Never Built DesignsPosted: March 12th, 2017, 5:37 am
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Short S.32 airliner

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The first British pressurised airliner, three aircraft were in construction in 1939, registered G-AFMK/L/M. With construction almost completed the project was cancelled in early November 1939 to allow for production of the Short S.29 Stirling bomber - itself called into production to replace the Supermarine 317 bomber which complete programme was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing.


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