What-if: Focke-Wulf Ta183 Huckebein

[Second Air Force]

Wonderful!

The original seat would have required a rather thin pilot, wouldn't it?!

[draken35]

Wonderful!

The original seat would have required a rather thin pilot, wouldn't it?!

...An anorexic one I would say...

[Second Air Force]

 

[draken35]

Painting of the parts but also study of the kit. Careful study will be useful to avoid some "traps" with that kit...

RLM for interior of the cockpit


The exhaust


Canopy is masked + RLM02


Wheels, wheel legs and doors




Seat and seatbelts




Instrument panel is recuperated from an old photoetch set and adapted. It will be placed on a support made with Evergreen (kit contained no instrument panel)

The little ring in copper wire is simple the antenna that will be placed later on the aircraft

Le manche à balai


The lateral consoles


And finally the air intake, modified and that asked for lot of work to avoid problems with cockpit floor but also with the floor of the front wheel emplacement

[No.1]

I like details, very nice work!!

[draken35]

Thank you my friend!

[Jicehem]

F-86 Sabre was the son of Messesrschmit P1101...

Hello everybody,

When I wrote the extra issue of Aéro-Journal "Luft '46" I discovered that the direct "son" of the P-1101 is the... Saab J-29. Officially, F-86 was improved thanks to German studies on the swept wing, but I think this assertion is not totally true, because studies on the swept wing begun before the war. I think that it's the fact that german tested the swept wing which made the Americans applying the concept.
During my search for this extra issue, I discovered too, that the Ta 183 had been completed (I wonder) or the Russians had built a prototype based on the Ta 183 and flew it. I found no confirmation that the Germans begun the building of a prototype of the Ta 183 that, as known, was not the definitive project...
The MiG 15 has nothing to do with the Ta 183.

Jicehem

[No.1]

As always, your info are real treasure Thank you Jicehem

[Second Air Force]

Yes, thanks for that information, Jicehem. The SAAB certainly looks the part of "little brother" and your research is great to have, as usual!

[Jicehem]

Yes, thanks for that information, Jicehem. The SAAB certainly looks the part of "little brother" and your research is great to have, as usual!

Hi Second Air Force,
I discoverd also drawings of the Me P. 1101 with legends entirely translated into French, I think of the time of Germany collapse, accompanying German files from Messerschmitt which where all given to Saab...
The German technology for the projected Me P. 1112 was applied on the Lockheed  P/F-80 Shooting Star early series in connexion with the exhaustion of the boundary air layer which consisted of a fan just in front of the jet engine. 

Jicehem  

[draken35]

Thanks for those infos, Jicehem!

Gloss varnish then oil wash then matt varnish then pastels. Followed by:

cockpit is inserted in the fuselage with an instrument pael. Then half fuselkage are assembled together and wings glued in place.



As you can see, lot of putty is needed...

Evergreen for the front wheel trap


The new air intake and exhaust




The wheels


And the new seat, from far better than the original one!!!

[Jicehem]

Hi,

Good work on an amazing plane. I've one to build and so, I follow your step by step work.

Jicehem

[No.1]

Very nice shape!!

[draken35]

Thank you!

[Akinator98]

Very nice mate!