Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:38 pm- JG300-Stoopy- Neil_BaumgardnerI'm very certain it did have a turret. The wings were more transportation than anything, it wasnt envisioned to fight in the air (the thought is pretty comical).
Okay...(shakes head vigorously back and forth)...I was still looking at it from the landing gear perspective only, thinking it was just another experiment on rough airstrip operations......didn't realize it was a tank and air transport mechanism all rolled into one. Doesn't sound like the best basis for design compromise does it?
Yeah, air-to-air action does sound comical doesn't it? But, what if the idea actually worked out, you never know.....we'd have seen an escalation of flying tank development effort on all sides, with fears of a possible "flying tank gap" and sooner or later the inevitable dog-firefight would have happened and good gravy the falling spent cartridges themselves woulda wreaked havoc on the local potato and turnip crops......horrifying to think of. Yet somehow, kinda cool at the same time, gotta admit.....
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:49 pm- Doug_Kibbey
Anything is possible, my poor, misguided wingy-thing friend!
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:54 pmPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:09 pm- JG300-Stoopy- Doug_Kibbey
Anything is possible, my poor, misguided wingy-thing friend!
Holy fargin' DANG!!!! Good ol' Sgt Rock, he could do ANYTHING I tell ya!!!!
And the soldier standing on the side, helping to splash that Zero with his sidearm......that's too much.....killer...chuck a grenade at it too why dontcha....HAHAHHAHA!!!
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:31 pm- Dontos
Thats THE HAUNTED TANK (ie GI Combat). I have that one!! Sgt Rock was a 'leg'.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:39 pm- JG300-Stoopy- Dontos
Thats THE HAUNTED TANK (ie GI Combat). I have that one!! Sgt Rock was a 'leg'.
Oops...my bad, sorry! Although, doggone it! Now that you mention it, I remember the "Haunted Tank"! At least I seem to.....I recall that was about at the same time they started coming out with the "Weird War" comics as well, wasn't it?. Couldn't quite get into that series, was pretty goofy as well as macabre, and if I wanted that, there was good ol' Vampirilla.....and I was just at the age to start appreciating that kinda material.......digressing pretty far OT tho. Probably not too many pictures of Vampirilla (or Elvira) with tanks I bet. A guy can dream I guess......
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:24 am- JG300-Ascout- pineyHelps If I add the pictureJeff Lewis
There are pics of a B-36 that had tracked gear too that makes the rounds from time-to-time....
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:02 pm- arfraser- JG300-Ascout- pineyHelps If I add the picture
There are pics of a B-36 that had tracked gear too that makes the rounds from time-to-time....
The trial you mention ended in failure - the undercarriage shook itself apart during the first tests and was quickly abandoned.
Also, there is a model of the flying T-60 released recently - 1/72 in resin (I *think* it got a mention on Modeling Madness or Aircraft Resource Centre).
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Jeff Lewis
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