Twin tails!

Can’t beat the gorgeous looks of the Beech 18 – the most attractive aircraft ever fitted with a radial engine

Umm be careful what you say…each to there own. I have to admit its my favourite twin, but its not the most attractive aircraft with a radial. Not that I’m biased of course!!

Martin

‘C-119 Flying Boxcar (with auxiliary Viper)’
Basically it was the same underwing engine (Westinghouse J-34) and nacelle assembly fitted to a Neptune and mounted upside down on the fuselage top.

I still say the XF-11 is the most majestic twin boomer, 2nd pic included to give scale to this Hughes created beast!

Fairchild made two:

C-82 Packet

C-119 Flying Boxcar (with auxiliary Viper)

C-119G

C-119J Discoverer/Corona satellite retrieval aircraft

Can I just say this ?

A single word…..Aercoupe!:)

When the Stuka still had two – Ju87V-1

http://www.geocities.com/h_zoeller/ju87_a1.jpg

Not so keen on that!! It just doesn’t look like a Stuka! :rolleyes:

For bombers, of course, there’s only one – the Lanc!!

Snargasher, Desford, Gemini, Barkley-Grow, KZ IV, Langley 29-90, Shcherbakov SHCHE 2, Secan Coulis and Lockheeds galore :0) The Coulis qualifies for your twin booms.

John

I knew what you meant;)
Thinking on, the Hughes XF-11 and P-61 Black Widow are up there with the Vixen

Maybe I should have said twin tailbooms, folks. Sorry, ‘cos that’s what I meant!

(Goes away to a corner to sulk in embarrassment…)

Then there’s this:

http://www.skymaster.org.uk/photo_abc.asp

… of fond memory to yours truly…

What about the awesome SR-71?- IMHO the best looking thing of any kind ever designed!!

I always thought the two tail ‘solution’ had a certain aesthetic elegance to it… in theory.

Most of the examples I can actually think of, whilst I have a soft spot for them, managed to look as though they were designed by a committee on an off day!

I can kick off with:

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1091051/

Feel free to add others.

There’s nowt wrong with the whistling wheelbarrow:)

Can’t beat the gorgeous looks of the Beech 18 – the most attractive aircraft ever fitted with a radial engine

twin tails or twin fins!

‘I always thought the two tail ‘solution’ had a certain aesthetic elegance to it… in theory.’ for me, the Sea Vixen…
But if we are talking twin fins and rudders I would choose the Shackleton

When the Stuka still had two – Ju87V-1

http://www.geocities.com/h_zoeller/ju87_a1.jpg

The Germans really liked their twin-tails. Almost all Arados had it, Heinkel had it on-and-off, the large Junkers.

Errr ! Nice pic ?

Maybe not the most celebrated of fighter designs, but certainly feared by bomber crews….

Gentlemen, the Zerstörer.

And I happen to think it’s a rather mean-looking beast – in a good way, of course!

Here’s one of my favourite twin tailled aeroplane.

Martin