Aw C'mon Don !

 Do you really think I'll fall for that ? Putting a cockpit canopy on a failed pancake and painting it dark Blue ?  I'll bet your Missus was engaged in laughter after you showed her what you took out of the kitchen .

 Besides I don't think it flew well did it ?

Boy, that is one odd looking aircraft. It's hard to believe that an airplane designer would think that thing could fly.

Okay, here is picture after I sanded all the junk off after dropping it on the floor. I decided to not put the tailplanes in place again (the fall impact knocked them off).  I think it will be easier to sand out successive coats of paint without them. I will finish tailplanes seperately and glue them in place after everything is finished.  Sorry for the poor depth of field- I gues f/11 was not enough.

Don, I really look forward to seeing more of your build.

Vought did have some innovative stuff, for sure. Rex Beisel was a gifted designer- I don't remember if he designed your subject.

Yes, one 7000 hp turboshaft engine is still potent, so long as the wing rotation transmission still functions. Otherwise, from level flight it's an interesting landing.

As I said before, a good friend of mine was a Navy test pilot, flew the F-4, F-14 and whatever else. Also flew operations from CVN-65.

Retired soon after he flew the Osprey; enough was enough.

Alledgedly, that's addressed with the cross-shaft, so both propellors are still turning, just with only one powerplant's worth of horsepower input.

V-22 has a similar set up, just with a much, much, longer cross-shaft.

E Baker

 

 

GMorrison

Surviving an engine failure would have been difficult.

 

 

I was thinking the same thing. One engine goes out, and you have an instant flat-spin. Not a good situation.

 

GMorrison

Surviving an engine failure would have been difficult.

I was thinking the same thing. One engine goes out, and you have an instant flat-spin. Not a good situation.

Surviving an engine failure would have been difficult.

Had the first coat on main assembly yesterday, and was airbrushing second coat.  Dropped it on floor!  Knocked off both elevons!  Don't know if there was any more damage- body and elevons were wet, of course.  Hurried them into drying box to avoid damaging paint any further.

Had intended to do pix of progress- that will have to wait till I get elevons back on main body- is that the wing or fuselage on that craft- and any other damage repaired.

Saw the kit today at the hobby shop where had our build day. I stroked my chin and thought "hmmm, could be fun." I'll be watching, Don.

Real G

Vought built the V-173 as a full-scale demonstrator to validate the STOL capabilities.  Although underpowered, it did prove the concept.  But when you scale up the weight, add 2X 2,000 HP engines plus "flapping" props hubs to the equation, things could have turned out not so well.  Yeah, and those big engines transmitting all that power through two 90 degree gearboxes...

A fascinating design nevertheless.  I have the Pegasus abomination and the much better Hasegawa version in 1/72.  Look forward to seeing yours built!

 

I have thought that the concept would work for human powered aircraft.  The aspect ratio needed for human flight is awesome.  The resulting structure has to have awesome technology.  I think a simple cable drive turning both props at same speed but counter-rotating wouldn't be that complex or heavy.  Low aspect ratio structures seem to be simpler to build.

Vought built the V-173 as a full-scale demonstrator to validate the STOL capabilities.  Although underpowered, it did prove the concept.  But when you scale up the weight, add 2X 2,000 HP engines plus "flapping" props hubs to the equation, things could have turned out not so well.  Yeah, and those big engines transmitting all that power through two 90 degree gearboxes...

A fascinating design nevertheless.  I have the Pegasus abomination and the much better Hasegawa version in 1/72.  Look forward to seeing yours built!

Very interesting subject.

Even if jet powered aircraft hadn't doomed the project I would imagine the complexity of the gearing/transmission would have.

Very cool. I've been waiting for someone to build one of these. Watching with interest.

BK

This should be a unique build.  Looking forward to more.

Your friend, Toshi

Oh that's awesome Don! I've got a kit from some limited run company, I forget which one at present that I haven't had the guts to tackle yet.

Cockpit looks good! Sucks about the broken part but glad to hear you were able to replace it. 

PS: Yeah, the Germans may have had the most insane secret projects but the Allies and Japan weren't too far behind.....