| Gravitas Free Zone |
2016-05-01 12:38 |
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Originally Posted by Saint X
(Post 5842840)
If you can imagine a bit, you can actually compress the SV-51's workings into a profile similar to that of the Starfighter, giving us this (recently retired) predecessor to their draken. They must have thought that "oooh this tail so looks like a shield, we must use it!"
I'm wondering how in flying seacats would a Lightning or a Mig-21 based VF would be.
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Funny part about using the EE Lighting, MiG-21, or F-104 is that all of them are that most basic of airplane shapes, a tube with wings.
I could see a little SV-51 lineage in the VF in the picture, but only in the wings. Everything else about the design screams F-104 at me, and it's a great historical reference overall, because the other major design choice of the Saab Draken and the F-104 is that both were single engine, an effect duplicated in their variable fighter analogues, and markedly different from the F-14/Su-27 style of twin widely-separated engines as copied by the VF- n series and the SV-51.
The Battroid mode looking like the SV-51 I can understand. I'm hammering on the F-104 comparison because this single picture of an old Windermere fighter confirms to me that Kawamori and the design team really thought out a way to make Windermere's aircraft unique and distinct and did it through a particular aeronautical history choice, which is awesome. |
