That makes it a real UAVMatej said:Toy: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Estes-XB-39-Eagleye-Radio-Control-Digital-Camera-Plane/4196237
I would LOL if I wasn't at the library!Skyraider3D said:That makes it a real UAVMatej said:Toy: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Estes-XB-39-Eagleye-Radio-Control-Digital-Camera-Plane/4196237
Wow, a blended-wing-body ekranoplan with propfans That's awesome!Triton said:
Oh this is epic hilarity! I wonder if they purposely made it look like a concept desk model for an AWACS configuration? I think that's possibly where we got fooled.Hammer Birchgrove said:I would LOL if I wasn't at the library!Skyraider3D said:That makes it a real UAVMatej said:Toy: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Estes-XB-39-Eagleye-Radio-Control-Digital-Camera-Plane/4196237
hesham said:Hi,
I can't judge on this aircraft,is it a real design or just an imagination
of somebody ?.
hi guys ,well Greg my models are all scratch build some of them are based on existing projects, others are my own designs, as for the materials i use , for the fuselage i use polystyrene, the blue one, and for all the other parts, such as the wings, canards etc... i use plastic,all the materials are easy to find and very cheap.
regards
Pedro
richard B said:In Green's "Fighters" vol 4 p 141 ,there is a photo of the mock-up of a Mustang fitted with a RR Merlin aft of the cockpit : " y " is not a what-if , but a serious project.
Stargazer2006 said:richard B said:In Green's "Fighters" vol 4 p 141 ,there is a photo of the mock-up of a Mustang fitted with a RR Merlin aft of the cockpit : " y " is not a what-if , but a serious project.
Oh? Wow. But the question was about the image itself, and that is surely a re-creation.
Apophenia said:The original website had disclaimers explaining that these were What-Ifs. I should've known that this stuff would get posted elsewhere without the disclaimers
Stargazer2006 said:I've got over 300 fake aircraft posted on the web, a good half of which are photo works that are extremely believeable. My pages have disclaimers too, but still I expect that sort of thing to happen one day, as it already has with one of my fake cars (it was circulated worldwide on forums and still lives a life of its own despite my disclaimers and attempt to get the record straight!!!).
Chinese? I was very sure this was Japanese (26 years ago when I bought my first computer, there was no computer in China...). But translating from Chinese instead of Japanese gives a full translation, thanks! ;DApophenia said:And then there's Chinese sites like the one Tophe found
Apophenia said:Stargazer2006 said:I've got over 300 fake aircraft posted on the web, a good half of which are photo works that are extremely believeable. My pages have disclaimers too, but still I expect that sort of thing to happen one day, as it already has with one of my fake cars (it was circulated worldwide on forums and still lives a life of its own despite my disclaimers and attempt to get the record straight!!!).
Yep, count on it. In the worst case scenario, posters will try to pass off the whif as real. That Mustang image does puzzle me though. It's got mildly swept wings, contraprops, and an enlarged tail but it is supposed to be illustrating a section on XP-51F/G/Js !?
In some cases there will be genuine mistaken identities (a purely conceptual tank upgrade of mine was described on a European tank crew discussion group as depicting a built prototype - although this may have been an ESL issue or simply grabbing an unattributed image from another discussion group.).
And then there's Chinese sites like the one Tophe found that seem to grab (or hotlink) images almost randomly. (Others will try to pass off the images as their own.) I've seen re-posted images of mine on other afwing.com pages where depicted equipment is mis-identified despite the correct designation having been included in the re-used image name! Go figure
frank said:If you look at the horizontal tails, they're mildly swept too. My guess is they used the modified Lear Jet wings & tail from the air racer Learstang 'Vendetta'. http://www.internetmodeler.com/1999/august/first-looks/vendetta.htm
I'm guessing the nose & c/r props are fron the Red Baron RB-51 air racer or another similar Griffon powered c/r prop equipped air racer that I can't recall the name, maybe even a relative to Vendetta.
Apophenia said:Stargazer2006 said:I've got over 300 fake aircraft posted on the web, a good half of which are photo works that are extremely believeable. My pages have disclaimers too, but still I expect that sort of thing to happen one day, as it already has with one of my fake cars (it was circulated worldwide on forums and still lives a life of its own despite my disclaimers and attempt to get the record straight!!!).
Yep, count on it. In the worst case scenario, posters will try to pass off the whif as real. That Mustang image does puzzle me though. It's got mildly swept wings, contraprops, and an enlarged tail but it is supposed to be illustrating a section on XP-51F/G/Js !?
In some cases there will be genuine mistaken identities (a purely conceptual tank upgrade of mine was described on a European tank crew discussion group as depicting a built prototype - although this may have been an ESL issue or simply grabbing an unattributed image from another discussion group.).
And then there's Chinese sites like the one Tophe found that seem to grab (or hotlink) images almost randomly. (Others will try to pass off the images as their own.) I've seen re-posted images of mine on other afwing.com pages where depicted equipment is mis-identified despite the correct designation having been included in the re-used image name! Go figure
Tophe said:Congratulations and thanks Apophenia, for having created this wonderful fake photograph. ;D
Concerning the single-engined Bf-109TL, was it asymmetrical or central? Have you kept a picture of it?
Tophe said:Congratulations and thanks Apophenia, for having created this wonderful fake photograph. ;D
Concerning the single-engined Bf-109TL, was it asymmetrical or central? Have you kept a picture of it?
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