PMN1
September 25, 2006 at 8:55 pm

Avro 685 York

This was the wings, landing gear etc of the Lancaster attached to a new square section fuselage.

Was there any possibility of a beavertail fuselage being used?

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By: Peter - 26th September 2006 at 14:46

same wings and tails with a square section fuselage..

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By: Steve T - 26th September 2006 at 06:19

Hi–

Hm. To do that, you’d probably have to have made the ground stance level, ie. tricycle gear. Raising the tail surfaces as much as an aft ramp would require would probably alter the handling, but I’m not an aerodynamicist. Aesthetically, I’d guess the resulting aircraft would have looked like the lovechild of a Mk.3 Shackleton and a Shorts Skyvan… :rolleyes:

S.