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Its quite beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing. How are you grabbing these pictures? Digital camera pic of a projection on a screen?
overscan said:Its quite beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing. How are you grabbing these pictures? Digital camera pic of a projection on a screen?
reelarchives said:The film is about 300 ft in length and looks as new as the day it was filmed. It certainly was a beautiful piece of work!
Orionblamblam said:reelarchives said:The film is about 300 ft in length and looks as new as the day it was filmed. It certainly was a beautiful piece of work!
Was the image "100_9069_edited.JPG" one of a series that pans along the entire length of the vehicle? If so, if'n you'd be willing to post a series of images that cover the full length, I'd like to stitch 'em together into one long image.
circle-5 said:Great photos, thanks for sharing! Do you plan to make these films available on DVD someday? Please count me in if you do!
Stargazer2006 said:Color pics??? This is a first for me! What a beautiful aircraft it would have been...
I believe I don't have to tell you this... but make sure to quickly make digital copies of all this material as the original films are extremely fragile and prone to all sorts of wear and dust. You got yourself a treasure!
reelarchives said:circle-5 said:Great photos, thanks for sharing! Do you plan to make these films available on DVD someday? Please count me in if you do!
This is one film I will certainly get copied. If anyone wants one simply drop me an email and I'll let you know when it is copied. I will donate a % to this website too
reelarchives said:Orionblamblam said:Was the image "100_9069_edited.JPG" one of a series that pans along the entire length of the vehicle?
Here you go:
Pioneer said:Although I have to query whether it is a Model 818, as it has no dorsal intakes.
sferrin said:Probably Orionblamblam. ISTR him posting it back then as a "mystery aircraft".
overscan said:McDonnell-Douglas VG model from 1960 that appears to be the ancestor of their TFX design above. Different in detail but retains the long nose.
Skybolt said:Naturally. Douglas had a different entry early in the competition (probably you'll see it in a few months...) BUT, the final TFX submission saw the two companies paired... so it was a McDonnel & Douglas TFX.
Yes, could be. By the way, even the earliest strictly TFX competition was an Air Force solo one. TFX-TAC morphed in TFX-Joint when McNamara stepped in and forced the fusion with the Fleet Air Defense requirement by the Navy. This actually took some time, since he initially tried to cover the Marine CAS requirement too. So if the tests on this model were conducted in early 1961 this is surely a "TAC" study. Just waiting for the TFX files in NARA being declassified (I lost hope for the copy docs at Wright-Patterson).possibly this is the "TAC" study? Identified as McDonnell BC-22, 1961.
Pioneer said:Evening gents
I am going through some of my older files and came across this picture.
The only thing I have written is - 'Mock-up of early Model 818 designed to USAF SOR-183 competition'. My file shows that I saved it in 2008 (but I have no recollection or its source!!)
Regards
Pioneer
sealordlawrence said:Pioneer said:Evening gents
I am going through some of my older files and came across this picture.
The only thing I have written is - 'Mock-up of early Model 818 designed to USAF SOR-183 competition'. My file shows that I saved it in 2008 (but I have no recollection or its source!!)
Regards
Pioneer
If you look back at some of the earlier posts in this thread there are two photos that appear to show models or bits of that look very similar to this mock-up.
See the following:
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,526.msg3929.html#msg3929 (third picture down; bottom right and bottom left appears to show nose and cockpit sections very similar to the one used on this mockup)
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,526.msg69965.html#msg69965 (In this picture there are two models that show similarities- the most similar is the wingless model [wings next to it] on the free standing table at the top right and the second most similar, though lacking any tail surfaces, is on the free standing table at the top left.