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Let's 'Wave This!
08-08-2010, 04:03 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225
I think Ptichka might like it. 
Also might make for a nice stop-gap for those of us waiting for Gagarins.
And also... DAMN. That sucker can haul a helluva lotta shit!
EDIT: I think I'd call something like that the Albatross rather than the Dream. The thing even looks like an albatross!
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Only one flight-capable aircraft was ever completed, but a second airframe exists... Okay, if Mal and Sora ever make their relationship "official", I know what Noah's wedding present to them will be. (Unless they beat him to it, of course. )
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Heh. Who says you gotta have an original airframe?
*Fenspace!Ben starts pulling reference books out onto his drafting board while Gina begins to pull figures out of the Internet and Jess gets on the line with Antonov.*
Well, the Ga-15s weren't on original airframes...
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I think Jupiter Mining could use a couple of the 'Mark II' 224s, just for those occasions where they need to make a quiet cargo run someplace on Earth and not terribly upset the locals who insist on showing up to the airport and protesting the Fen presence because they might 'contaminate the water table with Handwavium' just by taking off....
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blackaeronaut Wrote:Heh. Who says you gotta have an original airframe? "It's a replica, because I care so much about my oldest daughter that I got her second-best."
That doesn't quite sound like Noah to me...
(Off on a tangent: Did anyone else read "Let's 'Wave This!" and "hear" M.C. Hammer?)
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If you're going to build from plans, you might try something a little bit larger:
http://www.sergib.agava.r...iev/be/2500/be2500_e.htm
How about 2500 tonnes, instead of 600?
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Tried it. The Ukranians didn't want to part with the blueprints for love or money, so the Soviets built the Gagarins instead.
Paris Air Show 2015 was really entertaining, with Laika parked alongside the Mriya.
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It may not be as large, but I want to see someone 'Wave a replica of the Hughes Aircraft HK-1.
http://www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_art ... s/HK-1.htm
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Ferio, if Ben can get the production line going, he'll be more than happy to crank out a few for the JMC.
Noah can afford the original airframe as a gift to someone he loves very much
Benjamin's gift, on the other hand, is to all Fen-kind and requires mass production.
Dartz, that's like comparing a dolphin to a blue whale. Although if they can carry standard-size cargo containers, Ben would build a few for his Medical and Relief Corps.
Mal: Who says it's gotta be an exact replica? With enough differences, no one can get into any legal trouble. Besides, it's their fault they didn't let us look at the prints in the first place! (Just to go one step further, I still have the name 'Albatross' stuck in my head - the resemblance is uncanny to me!)
Re: Spruce Goose, there's been talk of that before.
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Yes. http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Maple_Mallard]Yes, there has.
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...I don't know how I missed that, but thanks for the links!
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Since we're wandering off the initial specific and bringing up other craft, why not wave one of the airships mentioned recently in a http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/topic/7350thread up in General[/quote]? That would be hellishly cool. Expensive, or grand larceny, depending on how you got one of them, but cool.
And yeah, I know, postdates the current era by a couple years. Still.
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