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Nuts...
Ok, I'm in... But there're too many blue ones in the build..
1/48 Monogram SB2C kit converted to A-25A Shrike..
Needs more tea-tin...
Been workin like a slave......gotta pay for that 6 months off every year! Thanks to the rain Gods, I got off a little early today, but have band practice, so no building time (might get the intermediate blue painted though)
Managed only a little time last week, started painting yesterday.
No floats on this one, but cupcakes and milkshakes are stowed between the gunner and pilot!
Too many cupcakes and jugs of milk?
What happened to Fermis? The world wonders...
p38jl how about this one ??..[Last i Knew..this plane was in Greenville Maine.. I've actually touched it.. and have my own pics of it. on land.. and flying.. :550:0]
how about this one ??..[Last i Knew..this plane was in Greenville Maine.. I've actually touched it.. and have my own pics of it. on land.. and flying..
:550:0]
All sorts of floatie things were made
I look forward to celebrating Fermis' new build with a couple of extra large milkshakes
Word around the Lair is that Fermis is building the floatie version of the Helldiver with Harry Truman flying and Truman Capote manning the tail gun....
I have many books and my Lair smells of rich mahogany!!! Stay thirsty my fellow MOJOs!
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Curtis management had not anticipated war production cuts at the end of WWII.......
Really? Did they think they were just gonna keep crankin` out war planes with no war? No wonder they went bust.
Len Pytlewski
DoogsATX pzl66: thanks to the Trumman Witch Hunt.. And the Helldiver had so many restrictions on it during the time of it development. Like floats? But seriously. Yes. Development hell.
pzl66: thanks to the Trumman Witch Hunt.. And the Helldiver had so many restrictions on it during the time of it development.
Like floats?
But seriously. Yes. Development hell.
Development Hell sometimes created by outdated requirements.
Curtis and Bell produced outdated pre-war designs due to US Government / military demands as well as budget limitations.
The P-40 , P-39 and the Douglas B-18 immediately come to mind.
pzl66 Sprue-ce Goose: The Navigator: pzl66: How do you dive bomb with floats? Didn't need to bomb using that aircraft. Curtis management did such a good job of bombing, they put the company out of business after the war. thanks to the Trumman Witch Hunt.. And the Helldiver had so many restrictions on it during the time of it development.
Sprue-ce Goose: The Navigator: pzl66: How do you dive bomb with floats? Didn't need to bomb using that aircraft. Curtis management did such a good job of bombing, they put the company out of business after the war.
The Navigator: pzl66: How do you dive bomb with floats?
pzl66:
How do you dive bomb with floats?
Didn't need to bomb using that aircraft.
Curtis management did such a good job of bombing, they put the company out of business after the war.
thanks to the Trumman Witch Hunt.. And the Helldiver had so many restrictions on it during the time of it development.
I am unaware of the Truman administration's involvement in an anti-Curtis witch-hunt.
i am only aware of failed fighter designs which were either designed and produced after competing designs were already successful and in mass production or designs which simply were unable to produce the promised performance.
Examples are:
Curtis XP-60 A/C/D/E vs. Republic P-47
Curtis XP-40Q vs. NA P-51
and the last of the breed:
the Curtiss XF-87A Blackhawk jet powered night fighter, which lost out to the Northrop XP-89.
Curtis management had not anticipated war production cuts at the end of WWII and, therefore, had no civilian designs available to keep it's production plants operating.
That was my reason for commenting about Curtis management.
From what I was reading was the limitations put on the Helldiver was the size and what not. So Curtis designed within the limits given. The Curtis design won the contract but by the time all the kinks where worked out the dive bomber was becoming an obsolete role. Like said before the Hellcat and Corsair could carry the same load just not as far as the Helldiver. But it proved itself with taking down alot of ships and also joining the Avenger with the raids on Iwo Jima, Tinian, and the Japanese Mainland. The floats were added to alot of Naval aircraft for testing but just like the Wildcatfish was dropped. The NACA (now NASA) could only test so much about an aircraft before it entered service and could not really anticipate some of the problems occured with battle damaged or damage caused from novice pilot landing hard on the carrier, aka broken tail. Out of all the Helldivers the only one I dont like was the SB2C-6 with the thin/tall tail, for some reason the big round tail works with the rest of the airframe design. It like the beast was just meant to have that huge tail.
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pzl66 thanks to the Trumman Witch Hunt.. And the Helldiver had so many restrictions on it during the time of it development.
But seriously. Yes. Development hell. Though I have to imagine part of it was in how the specs were executed against. I mean when the head of NACA (is that who it was?) laughs at your design and says it'll never be stable, and you build it anyway, and it's not stable, and you have to basically make the tail as big as the rest of the plane...someone mucked that one up.
I'd be curious to see what would have become of a next-gen Douglas dive bomber (SB2D, anyone?)
On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2
On Deck: 1/350 HMS Dreadnought
Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com
Sprue-ce Goose The Navigator: pzl66: How do you dive bomb with floats? Didn't need to bomb using that aircraft. Curtis management did such a good job of bombing, they put the company out of business after the war.
The Navigator pzl66: How do you dive bomb with floats?
Now this is a floatplane!
pzl66
What did they call it?
A Hellfloater???
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
VanceCrozier Manstein's revenge: On the second bounce the wings folded... ...and the floats folded on the third bounce...
Manstein's revenge: On the second bounce the wings folded...
On the second bounce the wings folded...
...and the floats folded on the third bounce...
The tail was notorious for falling off on landing.
That most likely fell off at the second or third bounce.
Manstein's revenge On the second bounce the wings folded...
On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister
Some are born ugly; others have ugly thrust upon them.... this one may have had it both ways!
I just didn't think that plane could get any uglier..... it can.
Science is the pursiut of knowledge, faith is the pursuit of wisdom. Peace be with you.
On the Tarmac: 1/48 Revell P-38
In the Hanger: A bunch of kits
VanceCrozier Manstein's revenge: pzl66: It flies!!! That picture really only proves the thing can bounce...
Manstein's revenge: pzl66: It flies!!!
It flies!!!
That picture really only proves the thing can bounce...
.......but doesn't prove it survived more than one bounce...........
Manstein's revenge pzl66: It flies!!!
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p38jl [:550:0]
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Very cool build...that will look great next to Frankentank
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