Pulp Plane Library

[gary42]

I'm stealing that credential list for my gyro raider mechanic character...

[Valerik]

I'm stealing that credential list for my gyro raider mechanic character...

Glad to see you proudly practice IP pilferage only from the best...

& his name really oughta be "Jimmy"

Since USAAC Lieutenant James H. Doolittle, Sc.D., earned the world's first doctorate in Aeronautics from M.I.T. in 1925, barnstormin' fool with a slide rule long before he was a war hero.



No better man in uniform to plan, execute, & LEAD the Tokyo Raid in '42.
Yet his earlier exploits & adventures read so sensational they prove truth stranger than fiction.
Sad we'll never see his sort again, those days are long done.
Fix 'em, fly 'em, fight 'em, race 'em, wreck 'em, Jimmy could, & did, do it all.

Valerik
unabashed Doolittle worshiper, James H AND Alfred P

[juergen c. olk]

found this little gem.

Admin Edit: No swastikas, please. See former user's reply a couple of posts below for the plane.

[Amalric]

Nice find Juergen.

That´s funny, I held it in hands last week and thought to myself "what a fine plane for pulp adventures", but 50€ was to steep for a simple toy plane. For that price I could get a Franklint Mint die-cast collectible...

Michi, wow thats a lot. If I could get a Franklint Mint DC3 or Auntie Jus for just 50€ I'd be all over it!

....I'd love to see it when it is finished....

Me to. 

[FramFramson]

Michi, wow thats a lot. If I could get a Franklint Mint DC3 or Auntie Jus for just 50€ I'd be all over it!

We might have instructions coming up on how to easily make something for a lot less money then that. Check out Tin Shed's posts from here onward: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=71501.msg871163#msg871163

[carlos marighela]

You might want to edit that last photo to remove the offending symbol. German based website.

[former user]

this should do

[FramFramson]

The French had some really wild and wacky designs in development then. Check out the SNCASE SE.100

[FramFramson]

Oh man, or the Italian Stipa-Caproni



Look at that thing! This is a real plane which actually flew! If I'd seen this in a saturday morning kids' cartoon I'd have dismissed it as entirely unbelievable.

[Michi]

Oh man, or the Stipa Caproni



Look at that thing! This is a real plane which actually flew! If I'd seen this in a saturday morning kids' cartoon I'd have dismissed it as entirely unbelievable.

Is that an impeller concept?

[FramFramson]

The Stipa-Caproni was essentially an attempt to make an airplane whose entire body was one big ducted fan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni


On the other hand, there were some exceedingly beautiful planes, like the Amiot 370 (a racing variant of the Amiot 340-350 series):

[Predatorpt]

...
On the other hand, there were some exceedingly beautiful planes, like the Amiot 370 (a racing variant of the Amiot 340-350 series):

Wow  It also looks like a racing Heinkel He 111

[carlos marighela]

It looks like what the Heinkel 111 would have looked like if it had been designed by Geoffrey de Havilland. 

[dexter]

THERE'S THE Polikarpov I-16   this one was an Eduard Weekend Edition 1:48 Painted in 'interesting' pulp colours

[Amalric]

That's swell!
Great paint scheme.

An I-16 has been on my wish list for awhile.