Heres some I found on there:
Not a real scheme but hey, it looked pretty.
Not your everyday Hornet!
An alternative to those ho hum fortresses.
The ultimate outdoors recreation vehicle.
Yes, the Wildcatfish really existed.
The McDonnell Douglas Model 220. This is the competitor to the Lockheed C-140. One built and this is what prompted my search as its supposed to arrive here this afternoon. Looking forward to that and I’ll see how many pics I can get of it.
Kevin is right. It’s been a long time, but there were conversions for both the Wildcatfish and the Goon, as well. In fact (boy, is this vague or what) some magazine or other did a how-to piece on the Goon conversion, and I remember seeing a photo of the float plane F4F, and it’s possible I saw it in an early FSM Gallery.
Tom
Did I understand you to say the MD Model 220 is flying into your AO today? No kidding!! I have seen “Flying” magazines from the early sixties with pictures of the 220 in it, looking like a scaled down 707!
I know you’ll make pictures of the beast, so we’ll be expecting to see them here very soon. [;)] Aerofiles is SURE a great sight, and thank you for the link!
Funny, when I first saw it, from the nose back I saw A-3/B-66 parentage there. I wonder if that’s four J-57’s under the wings. If so, it has enough power I would think.
That’s gotta be a hoax that Model 220. Looks like a B-58 hustler with a fat fuselage to me[^], oh well, and different wings 'n stuff. But still, you get the point: that’s one mean looking business jet[8D].
According to the pilot when he called this morning, she has Westinghouse J34s. The same engines as the auxilaries on the C-123. Can you believe this one lost to the Lockheed Jetstar for a USAF trainer? The similarities in the aft fuselage would be understandable as the whale came from the same company.
Yaha! Kevin, three-in-one – it has to be an old 1/48 Falcon conversions, right? I posted recently about the three-in-one conversion for the F4H prototype, the F-106B and the F-105B I had but never used because it required building entirely new cockpits for the Phantom and the 106 from scratch, which I was not yet skilled enough to do then, nor am I now, nor will I ever be. That would be the same series of conversions, I believe. And I think they can be found. So somebody can make a Wildcatfish without so much outright scratchbuilding. But now that I look at it, some fat strut material and floats from a Kingfisher with a few mods might do the trick better than vac-form.