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Post by jetmex on Feb 19, 2005 13:54:15 GMT -7
Another one of Uncle Sancho's creations recently came to light, one so shrouded in secrecy, no one knew of it until today. How he managed to keep this one under wraps in Mama Yolie's garage is one of the great wartime mysteries:  |
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Post by Britbrat on Feb 19, 2005 15:23:08 GMT -7
It's a B-71!
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Post by JimCasey on Feb 19, 2005 20:01:34 GMT -7
This is Actually the real-life story upon which "Flight of the Phoenix" was based. A B-17 crash-landed near a tradeschool in Sdrawkcab, Poland. The students, assisted by headmistress Alotta Konsonantski, reassembled it as best they could and flew it, they thought, to freedom. Unfortunately they also got the magnetic compass installation wrong and wound up deep in Bolshevik territory, which explains why so little is known of their lucky experiment. Ms Konsonantski escaped to the west and married a man named Rutan. The rest, as they say, is history. But the first part was history, too!
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Post by propnuts on Feb 20, 2005 7:14:07 GMT -7
I thought this was the first B-17 G model, the one built after the assembly manual was blown apart after inadvertantly being opened to the rear of a plane during an engine run up. The custodians and assembly line folk did their best to collect and reassemble the pages and, well, there were some glitches.....
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Post by Galvin on Feb 20, 2005 11:20:20 GMT -7
Weird thing is, looking at it, I think it would actually fly.
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Post by JimCasey on Feb 20, 2005 18:22:57 GMT -7
I studied that too, Galvin. I think for the Canard version, you'd want the CG at about the LE of the main wing. So the bomb bay on this one would be 'way too far forward. If the wing slides forward so the LE of the main wing was about where the waist-gunner's hatch normally is, and the LE of the canard was moved to the edge of the nose bubble, I think it would actually be practical.
Pesky details: the wing tanks would be behind the Cg, so there would need to be a nose-tank and diligent fuel management.
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