April Fools' Suprise!

[simonbp 0]

 

Happy April Fools!

 

The Avro Canada Avrocar was originally designed as a vtol fighter-bomber, and was picked up by the US government. The low power of the engines, however meant that it could only lift off with ground effect about 1 metre, thus making it the world's first hovercraft, but not a terribly great fighter-bomber...

 

I made this as a challenge to myself in about two evenings, so it's kinda rough (port hardpoint doesn't work, no animations, etc.), but fun nonetheless. To make it true to the original concept, I scaled it up ~15% and gave it a flight model based on an A-4....

 

It's at mysite below and has been uploaded here...

 

http://wombat.ods.org/cgi-bin/avrocar.pl

 

Have Fun!

[+Dave 2,319]

Wow that is cool as hell. My new recon platform. And it is up for D/L now.

[Guest IndioBlack]

Most expensive lawnmower in the World. I had the original flight footage in for a documentary I edited about weird planes being mistaken for Alien spaceships on the Discovery Channel. It looks the biz, but can hardly move. Hard to believe they really built one.

[+howling1 0]

Any plans Simon for a further refined version?

 

This one's way too cool to remain just a Beta.

 

[Wrench 9,567]

Returning to Groom Lake & Area 51, after a nice time in the Vegas casinos......

 

 

 

This little bird is ssooo cool!! Flying it makes me think I'm in one of the 1950s "B" ufo movies!!

 

Thanks simon!!

 

Wrench

Kevin Stein

 

 

ps: note the 'Galactica' pilot

[+howling1 0]

Returning to Groom Lake & Area 51, after a nice time in the Vegas casinos......

 

This little bird is ssooo cool!! Flying it makes me think I'm in one of the 1950s "B" ufo movies!!

 

Thanks simon!!

 

Wrench

Kevin Stein

ps: note the 'Galactica' pilot 

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Maybe we ought to request the UFO from the '60s series "The Invaders"...

 

;)

Edited April 3, 2005 by howling1

[purolator 0]

ROFL! Many thanks for this one. Took it out for a ride, actually I was assigned to hit T-34s, but it was an opportunity to attend to those Mig-19 drivers apparently being assigned for CAS as well. I guess they never knew what hit them!

 

"Towarisch Kommandant, I am under attack! The enemy flies a...disc???"

 

"Towarisch Wingman, stay off the Vodka before the flight and proceed on your attack!"

 

And now we enter the Twilight Zone, take a short trip to This Island Earth and finally we'll have a cold one at the little Ale-Inn in Rachel, Nevada.

[+Fates 63]

The Pilots look like the crew from MST3K....love it!

 

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