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Amusing Hobby 1/48 Weserflug P.1003/I


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What an unpractical idea of an aeroplane: the mechanical complexity of the drive shafts to the swivelling wings halves plus the control and stability problems in transition between horizontal and vertical flight modes... I WANT IT! 😀

More information about this project:

http://www.luft46.com/misc/wes1003.html 

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39 minutes ago, Rui Silva said:

What an unpractical idea of an aeroplane: the mechanical complexity of the drive shafts to the swivelling wings halves plus the control and stability problems in transition between horizontal and vertical flight modes... I WANT IT! 😀
 

The basic concept was still be looked at decades later:  https://trimis.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/project/documents/20121026_104409_61291_Aerodays_2011.pdf

 

Definitely interested in this one, though maybe as a post war development

 

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39 minutes ago, JWM said:

Anway, Brits were first:

Because a tilt-wing isn't enough, let's make it an amphibian as well.

That doesn't fly with me! :banghead:

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