6 bladed prop DC3

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Postby kcgb » Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:57 pm

been playing around with gmax and ended up making a 6 bladed prop DC3
here are a few pics

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Postby Splitpin » Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:16 pm

KC....it looks great! thumbup1.gif
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Postby Ian Warren » Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:24 pm

Looking a good start KC , there is a 5 bladed turbo prop running Pratt and Whitney PT-6 , even a tri-motor variant
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Postby chopper_nut » Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:25 pm

Interesting. Looks like the LH motor might be about to loose some blades!
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Postby Dion500 » Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:29 pm

Yeah, dont think the left engine took well to its new props. Looks interesting though
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Postby Adrian Brausch » Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:29 pm

chopper_nut wrote:
QUOTE (chopper_nut @ Apr 29 2010, 09:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Interesting. Looks like the LH motor might be about to loose some blades!


think he has done contra rotating sets of blades by looks of lol...
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Postby kcgb » Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:30 pm

chopper_nut wrote:
QUOTE (chopper_nut @ Apr 24 2010, 09:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Interesting. Looks like the LH motor might be about to loose some blades!



Dion500 wrote:
QUOTE (Dion500 @ Apr 24 2010, 09:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeah, dont think the left engine took well to its new props. Looks interesting though


yeah, I need to link them but I forgot how to tongue.gif
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Postby kcgb » Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:06 pm

now i've got them linked. all ive got to do know is fix the wing flex and the ailerons
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Postby Ian Warren » Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:31 pm

biggrin.gif look at em poor old wings .. the wait off those 3 extra blades
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Postby Splitpin » Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:39 pm

Good work KC....somewhere in my all my edited stuff, Ive got a Dak with a nose wheel and jets....see if i can dig it up, maybe you can Gmax it .

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Postby kcgb » Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:46 pm

now for the tri motor biggrin.gif


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Postby Ian Warren » Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:57 pm

It looks more Italian now to me tongue.gif may a ' prop ' for the next Peter Jackson movie tongue.gif
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Postby Snowman » Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:54 pm

Splitpin wrote:
QUOTE (Splitpin @ Apr 25 2010, 12:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Good work KC....somewhere in my all my edited stuff, Ive got a Dak with a nose wheel and jets....see if i can dig it up, maybe you can Gmax it .

Cheers



There was one in real life, i have some pics in a book somewhere. If i remember correctly, it had 2 Rolls Royce Nene Turbojets in pods on the underside of the wings.
Might have to go hunting through my books now,.............

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Postby Naki » Sun Apr 25, 2010 4:33 pm

Looks great..there was another Trimotor DC-3 with three PT-6s

http://www.douglasdc3.com/polair/polair.htm
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Postby Splitpin » Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:01 pm

biggrin.gif KC!...Your getting as bad as me........but it looks good, almost a JU-52 from the front.
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Looks great..there was another Trimotor DC-3 with three PT-6s

http://www.douglasdc3.com/polair/polair.htm


I think thats a good looking conversion......thanks Naki....I wont bother editing one......well maybe "jets" winkyy.gif
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Postby Splitpin » Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:12 pm

Snowman wrote:
QUOTE (Snowman @ Apr 25 2010, 03:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
There was one in real life, i have some pics in a book somewhere. If i remember correctly, it had 2 Rolls Royce Nene Turbojets in pods on the underside of the wings.
Might have to go hunting through my books now,.............

Lawrie. New_Zealand_etc.gif

That would be interesting ....cheers Lawrie
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Postby garryrussell » Sat May 15, 2010 6:55 pm

Snowman wrote:
QUOTE (Snowman @ Apr 25 2010, 04:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
There was one in real life, i have some pics in a book somewhere. If i remember correctly, it had 2 Rolls Royce Nene Turbojets in pods on the underside of the wings.
Might have to go hunting through my books now,.............

Lawrie. New_Zealand_etc.gif



That was the Vickers Nene Viking winkyy.gif

The Worlds first jet passenger transport

http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/vickers_neneviking.php

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