Mike, you need to build this …
http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=149674&messageid=1120004413
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Well, start gathering up those Gnome-rhone engines. (excuse the spelling-or is it zwilling?)
Dan
Do you have any diagrams for that? That looks like the rediculous project I want to pursue. Note that I have too much time on my hands.
That… that… “thing” is way over the top![:O]
Can you imagine the size of runway you’d need? You’d also need a Saturn V booster as a RATO pod… For an un-powered version, you’d also need to glue two He-111 Zwillings together… what’s German for Quadruplets?
If I remember my german at school correctly, it should be “vierlling”, I’m not sure about the spelling.
I think triplets is “dreilling”
ah yeah… ein zwei drei vier fünf siz sieben acht neun, just in case anyone gets any sillier ideas of linking 9 Gigants together! [;)]
Your spelling was indeed correct!
Is this thing for real, or is it some modeler’s opium dream?
Roman
I can’t remember if it was this version or the glider version that actually flew, but did get off the gound.
Unfortunately it broke up in mid-air, though apparently not due to an airframe failure!!!
Karl
I’ve been on vacation for the last three days, so this is the first I’ve seen this. I can actually say I know about the Me 323 Gigant Zwilling. I’ve just never seen any schematics or three-views of it. Thanks for putting it up!
It would take a bit more skill to accomplish than the Ju 290Z, just because of the wing taper. But is it doable? Oh yeah. [;)]
Twelve engines… think what could happen if I got my hands on some more little electric motors!
This will take some serious plann- er, thought. Yes. Yes it shall…
(The only problem with Zwilling transports is that although you can carry twice the load, these loads can only be twice as much at the same size. Simply put- you can carry two tanks instead of one, but you can’t carry a single tank twice the size of the original.)
So if you have a tank in one fuselage and rations in the other, you fly all the way with full rudder and the yoke cranked to one side?
Whatever you may say about the Germans of that era, you can’t fault them for thinking small. Criminy. What next, the Bismarck zwilling?
i bet if they would have had enough time they would have gotten there, phil
Good Golly Miss Molly, what a monster! That should eat up a year or two of modeling time and $$$$$$$ budget.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
eins zwei drei vier funf ( I don’t know where the Umlaut is situated on this keybord) sechs seben acht neun zehn unt so weiter… [:D]
Anyway, just think of the space this model would take and try to imagine then the look on your wifes’ face when your model actually takes that place [}:)]
If I would build that, it would contest ceiling space with my B-36.
Are you sure?![:O]
I think that this is just some photoshopping…
I checked the link, and it’s a fake.
KJ200, you where pulling my leg, weren’t you?
And I fell for it![V]
Yeeaah. Heh heh heh heh.
[}:)]
NIce one Swanny -
A little Photoshop here and there never hurt anyone…
But I WOULD like to see Mike give it a go…