Skypoet Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 ... And to say that I thought that the VF-4's design was far-fetched! Other images (there are only a few on the web, sory): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabe Q Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Just looks weird to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skypoet Posted January 28, 2005 Author Share Posted January 28, 2005 One more pic that shows the similarity with the VF-4: Ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Major Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 LOL! is like a Working SD VF-4! i love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ido Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Really similar to the VF-4 I wonder if it was the source for the vf-4 design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellohikaru Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 wow...Poland must have plenty of FB2012 fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurel Tristen Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Very VF-X-4. Reminds me a little of the FL-200 Mistral as well. Nice find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montarvillois Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Sheesh !!! Didn't know Purina, the cat food company had an airforce. Look at the logo on the tail... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Less than Super Ostrich Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 ahhhh... we found the VF-4's Papa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skypoet Posted January 28, 2005 Author Share Posted January 28, 2005 ... Or maybe that just means that Shoji Kawamori would have "made" a very good aerospace engineer! I would have liked to have him as an engineering teacher... "Hi students, today we'll study the mechanics of flight of a vakyrie fighter in gerwalk mode, we have to rush a little because next week we'll see the aerodynamical problems (shockwaves) of intra-atmospheric valkyrie transformation and the mid-term exam is in two weeks..." By the way, what someone mistook for Purina's logo is the emblem of polish military aircraft, just like =*= (*=star) would be that of US military aircraft. Or maybe Purina cat food can fly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylwell Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Sheesh !!!Didn't know Purina, the cat food company had an airforce. Look at the logo on the tail... That's the Polish Air Force, as a BTB. Near as I can find it's a mock up that never flew. http://www.dakotacom.net/~robertz/skorpion_page.html and he're another odd one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewilen Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 The page linked above says it first appeared in mock-up in 1992, so if anyone influenced anyone, the Poles were influenced by Kawamori. Good taste on their part. Purina makes more than just cat food--they make food for all kinds of animals, including Rabbit Chow, Monkey Chow, and until recently People Chow (by which I mean Chex cereals). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skypoet Posted January 28, 2005 Author Share Posted January 28, 2005 Hey guys! I showed these pics on another forum and the story of this prototype is very funny according to a member of that other forum: An aerospace engineer was about to leave the engineering department for vacations. Before doing that he made several sketches "just for fun" for the skorpio, he made several very "cartoonish", acrricatural plans for the skorpio and left them on the project manager's desk. He came back one month later and a new project was launched... Technically, this is a blended wing body aircraft: the body "blends in the wing", because the central chord of the wing is very large, almost as large as the fuselage is long So the fuselage provides some lift and less drag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewilen Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 (edited) Not many English references on this plane, but I found what appears to be a working RC model...(scroll to bottom of the page) http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~aiklos/my_models.htm A little inaccurate, but still nice. More pics of the same model, and some movie clips: http://www.old.modelarstwo.org.pl/lotnicze.../klos/scorpion/ Edit: If you want to see it fly, skip the first two clips. It looks more like an RC glider than a powered model. Edited January 28, 2005 by ewilen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.W.Royce Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Those are slope soarers. Or in the case of the skorpion a PSS (powered slope scale) model. That guy has a nice flying site. . . looks tropical . Spring is on the way, time to dust off the gliders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerwalker Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 That cannot be just mere coincidence!! Almost every characteristic from the VF-4 is there. Amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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