Thought some of you with an interest in 50s aircraft might find it entertaining. Not sure I’d tackle the scratch building though.
It’s very familiar to me. I spent a lot of time on standby in Bakersfield and that thing was mounted on a pylon out in front of the terminal. What were they thinking?
The experiments of the late 40s and early 50s are interesting. Look at the VTOL aircraft e.g. the Pogo, and the X-13. Then there is the Sea Dart and the X-3. Would the F-111 or the F-14 have been made a reality if it were not for the Bell X-5? The F-107 is my favorite.
Ah yes Bakersfield, the carrot capital of the world. I had Thanksgiving dinner there with a buddy I met while recovering at Fort Ord. We caught a Reserve C-130 at Oxnard to get back.
I bought a kit of a late model F-84 recently after buying a book on sale about the Thunderscreech. Haven’t started it yet, but drawings in book look adequate to carve a new nose. Have to make a lot of prop blades! Will probably carve one, make rtv mold and make them from resin.
That would look good alongside the Thunderceptor. The real one belongs in a museum.
That would make for one heck of a nice model.
What if you bought a 1/48 model of the Pogo, cut the nose off the Pogo and stuck it onto the F-84? I wonder if it would fit?
I thought about that but I suspect the prop diameter is smaller on the XFV-1 I am working on and it is contrarotating. The smaller diamenter is probably why the Pogos were not notably noisy, at least not to the level of the XF-84H. Tip speeds would be much less. But, the blade design is similar so with a longer blade it would be a start.
Anigrand does a 1/72 Screech