Anybody for a 1/3 rd scale spruce goose powered by eight rotary engines.
It would make a great flying boat motor home where you can take it all
with you. It should have a 2000 mile range so you can tour
the Pacific islands in style and comfort. Probably room
for a small car and motor boat.
Carbon fiber will improve the empty weight to gross weight
ratio improving the range.
Length: 218 ft 8 in (66.65 m)
Wingspan: 320 ft 11 in (97.54 m)
Height: 79 ft 4 in (24.18 m)
Fuselage height: 30 ft (9.1 m)
Loaded weight: 400,000 lb (180,000 kg)
Powerplant: 8 × Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radial engines,
4,000 hp (2,640 kW) each
Propellers: four-bladed Hamilton Standard, prop, 1 per engine
Propeller diameter: 17 ft 2 in (5.23 m)
Performance
Cruise speed: 250 mph (407.98 km/h)
Range: 3,000 mi (4,800 km)
Service ceiling: 20,900 ft (6,370 m)
Paul Lamar
Sounds like fun. Where can we buy the kit?
C. Smith
Rather do a PBY Catilina...scaled of course
ATP Bill
You won't get as much in it :)
Paul Lamar
Yes...but....what a grand adventure it would be
ATP Bill
The global explorer (link below )also has a dive platform in the rear of it. The 3rd scale spruce goose would be a great
mobile home, you can take the kitchen sink with you plus everything underneath and see the world on your own time, but i
would think it needs to be composite in order to stand up to salt corrosion, that would be the downfall of the global
explorer too i assume as its a tube structure. Still, an amphibian dream is one of my favorites,
http://youtu.be/RLKNPOSpMpY
Alex
I am thinking 1/3 scale might still be too big.
1/4 scale would give an 80 foot wing span and a fuse height
of 7 1/2 feet which should be enough. You can cut the wing spar
weight by storing fuel in the wing tip floats first and last.
BTW the pdf scanned pictures are typically 50 to 100 meg apiece.
They were 20 by 13 and scanned at 600 dots per inch.
That comes out to 12,000 pixels wide. Good for printing wall
hanging prints and photos.
Send me $10 cash and I will put them on a DVD and mail them to you.
It already cost me $30 to have them scanned :)
Paul Lamar
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