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Published: 2011-08-07 00:20:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 12589; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 175
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Today another Northrop Grumman product, the C-49A Colossus transport used to carry spaceships or large unmanned vehicles piggy-back. In this picture we can see the X-47B being released in flight from one of the four C-49A prototypes.Β© StΓ©phane Beaumort / AviaDesign 2011
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Actually works of this type aircraft says wings must be extremelly span like Vulcan Areospace Stratolauncher troday in development from base concept Scaled Composites Burt Rutan design not looks fine, but in theory will carry some class of space ship to let on stratosphere. Colossus looks well as a plane on 747-123 model Outsized piggy-back cargo classΒ
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Rutan's designs don't always look good, but they usually perform well (with a few exceptions of course).
If you're interested, I created a website devoted entirely to Rutan's designs:
stargazer2006.online.fr
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More joyful than a clasical cargo plane, and with an improved rear access thanks to the twin-booms... designer, you have made a winner, will a manufacturer ever build it?
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Nah... Politicians will kill it before it leaves the drawing board, as usual...
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I see a design of a C-17 mixed with a C-119 [sort of]
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Not really what I did, but I see your point... Rather a C-5 Galaxy with a Cessna Skymaster!!
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Thanks! It is, isn't it?
Actually I used a genuine UAV as a basis, added engines, cockpit, resized it... Looks the part, doesn't it? LOL
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