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First flying in 1949, the Gemini was one of the earliest successful commercial helicopter designs, as a result of using the newly-developed gas-turbine power plant. Powered by 2 400shp Atlas turboshafts, it could carry 12 passengers and their luggage at speeds of up to 150kts. The distinctive long landing gear was needed to ensure that the long, intermeshing rotors could not strike the ground during startup and shutdown.[/background fluff]
This is my first ever attempt at painting chrome (well, polished aluminium, but that's just being picky); I think it came out pretty well considering
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Nice! I can see that shuttling executives around a gleaming Art Deco City
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Interesting design mix of a "Connie" a Mil Mi-10 with intermeshing rotors . Definitely something that looks like it might have existed.
Speaking of Connies - in my opinion, one of the the best looking variant is the Lockheed L-1249 Super Constellation, an experimental high-speed turboprop variant that saw limited introduction and used the same engines at the Douglas C-133 Cargomaster. See this beauty here: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipediaβ¦
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That's a tricky one - the turboprops are certainly sleeker, but I can't help but feel a certain fondness for the under-nacelle air inlets.
As to the design influences - the "Connie" is deliberate, but most of the rest just came from converting it to a syncrocopter (although I can certainly see what you mean about the Mil-10)
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To each it's own I guess. I've really had a fondness for turboprop or in-line sleekness over bulky radials. Speaking of which, this is an interesting development: www.airteamimages.com/tupolev-β¦
Yeah, I gathered that the main influence was the Connie and really wondered wherever the resemblance to the Mil Mi-10 was deliberate or purely a result of "convergent evolution", where function creates form.
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Boy, talk imitation being the sincerest form of flattery; a chinese-built version of a russian copy of an american WW2 bomber, upgraded with turboprops and carrying a chinese-built copy of an american drone not designed until 10 years after the bomber left service.
And yes, the Mil-10 was definitely a result of convergent evolution
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It gets even better on some occasions -
For example, the North Koreans have the so-called "Type 66 pistol", which is a locally produced variant of the "Norinco Model 59", the Chinese copy of the Russian "Pistolet Makarova", itself heavily based on the interwar German Walther PP (although not an outright copy of the latter - if anything you can consider the PP as a "parent", which makes the postwar Makarov and Walther PPK stepsisters)
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