Very nice!

I catch some MiG-3, and some P-40 in there. :3 Soopah slick looking machine. :)

I think it looks more like an italian Reggiane re.2005 or a Mc.205 veltro

mm.. looks quick O.o

im sure that if the majority of fuel was in the tail section it would balance out better, and with a wingspan with more surface area... perhaps slightly swept back or wider wingspan. personally, the wings look a little small to me

I suppose the hypothetical designers could have traded off wing area for top speed. Yeah, that might mean a sacrifice in low-speed performance, but it may be considered worthwhile if, say, the plane’s intended to intercept bombers and blow them out of the sky with the cannon running down the propellor shaft. I seem to recall some planes made that trade-off, although the only example my tiny but active mind can bring up immediately is the F-104 Starfighter.

Y’know, Baron, I wonder if you could get work designing nifty fictional vehicles for model companies? Certainly you’ve got the background for it!

ahh... thats true. thanks much ^_^ . i was looking more at the overall stability. i was dumb enough not to look at the high speed maneuverability in a plane designed for that XD which is why im not an engineer :D

Well, it’s also possible the hypothetical designers simply goofed. God knows there are plenty of examples of that in the real world! How many times, in descriptions of aircraft, motor vehicles, or indeed any class of invention, does one run across some variation of “. . . but this design decision turned out to be [less than optimal/downright bad/completely fatal] because . . .”?

iyts so thin and cute I like it

Looks like a stretched Spitfire...the overall look seems to be of a racing plane with guns grafted into the design at a later date. An adaptation to war that seems like it'd do well as an interceptor.

It looks fantastic, like the best aspects of the Mustang and Spitfire blended in. Something like this certainly would have resulted had the experimental Rolls-Royce Griffon engine gone into production instead of being canceled by the end of the war in Europe.
The Mustangs the prototypes were shoehorned into were having nose-heavy balance problems and they were likely going to have to revamp the plane for a model that could handle the massive beast, and likely design an entirely new plane for the engine as well.
Ah well, fortunes of war and all that...

Interesting.

Nice lines, I would call her, "The Checker Tail Fox!" and do a Black & White checker tail and the rest a bright fire engine Red with dark brown leading edges...

Just had a dream about a Reno racing plane...

Nice design, reminds me a lot of a souped-up Macchi C.205 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macchi_C.205

Nice, looks like a high-speed interceptor.

Very cool!

Would you like to repost the picture?

http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwRacCn.html

Speed Week could use more racing planes. Wheels are OK.

Sweet looking plane! Hope there are some tanks and ground vehicals soon :D

hmmm... nice. I wonder how it would fare against a bf-109 or a zero.

Veddy nice! I could see that doing well at the Reno Air Races.

Yeah and they start this weekend. My boss makes a trip every year to them. love to go some year myself. Use to take in the races out in Mojave in the 70's as a kid.

I just came back from there. If you wanna see some REAL short wings, check out Rare Bear.

To me, this design resembles an Airacobra, though the engine is in front.

And no tricycle landing gear either but it does have the very pointed nose of the P-39 to it.

This gives me a dandy excuse to run out and buy that model excessory kit that features the Allison V-16 engine.

(grins) Need any radial engine castings? I came across a couple whilst browsing through old kits.

Would you graft it to a MiG-3 fuselage and wings? Or perhaps to one of the Italian WWII fighters like the Mc205?

Allison V-16? They made a V-12, the V1710 and its double-version, the W3420, but I don't know of a V-16 they built. Now, the Chrysler IV-2200 that was tested int eh Xp-47H was an IV-16 engine.

Interesting, is that engine a V-12 or IV-12? In any case, it looks like it has a downdraft intake manifold. I can see bits of different aircraft there; the outwardly retracting gear (great for structural simplification but giving a very narrow track for taxi-ing) looks off a Bf-109 or Spitfire (or the HE-70 that somewhat inspired both) while the tail looks like a mix. The canopy lines are again a combination of bits from the Spitfire and the He-100D with a touch of the Malcolm Hood in the way it slides back. The rather pointed spinner reminds me of the later, DB605-powered version of the FS190V19.

I get the impression I'm dealing with a technical "Expert." Yeah... I'll admit there was an Allison V-12 which was popular for aircraft during the 1940s era. I might have mistaken the Allison for the V-16 Packard marine engine which closely resembled the Elgin V-16s used in the Elco PT-Boats of that era. It's kind of mind boggling to see all those pistons here in these days of more compact and far more efficient engines. The P&W R-1000s with their four banks of nine cylinders still gives me the "Willies" when I think of what a mechanic of the time had to endure keeping such an engine "In Tune." (Remember, most aircraft piston engines of that era had two spark plugs, and four valves each cylinder.)

That's the P&W R4320, also known as the "corncob" for its appearance. I don't claim to be an expert, simply reasonably knowledgeable, 'tis both hobby and profession (among other things, I've worked on the B-2, the F-16, the F-35, and the ISS). I rather suspect you could get some surprising performance if the full range of modern technology was applied to the basic V-12 aero engine, either the Merlin (or Packard V1650) or the Allison V1710. I understand that some Allison parts are actually preferred for building race-worthy Merlins, the connecting rods are especially noted for being more robust than the stock Merlin items. Actually, that the V1710 compares as well as it does illustrates the ability and inspiration at Allison since they never had anywhere near the R&D establishment RR did; and now RR owns Allison.