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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: mthrockmor on February 19, 2015, 09:12:27 PM
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I was snooping around Google and stumbled onto paintings of a push/pull fighter called the Me-709. I did more research and could find nothing beyond the pictures.
Who knows anything about this bird?
boo
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I havend found anyhing that shows that a Me-709 existed more than maybe on a paper. Messersmith had a couple of project based on the 109 but none where operational and none where designated 709 so it might be a fantasy model.
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Who knows anything about this bird?
A modeller's fantasy bird.
The kit and its assembly
This what-if was inspired by a picture of a very similar model I found a while ago in the WWW, and I found the idea of a push/pull Me 109 derivate very attractive. Why not? When I thought about how to realize such a model with as little effort as possible, I came across HUMA's Me 609 kit - and this basically offered anything necessary, bare the tail booms. These were quickly gathered from the spare box: they come from a Fw 189 (Airfix) and were cut just behind the wings’ trailing edge. Still a bit thick, but the idea of using the front as radiator intakes is a neat solution which also frees the fuselage from the bulky cooler tub of the Me 309.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dizzyfugu/7426281924/
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Thats a cool lookin' bird.
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That's nothing compared to the P-51VLR(20mm). :noid
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A modeller's fantasy bird.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dizzyfugu/7426281924/
Ugly
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Was an actual design from what I can tell, never left the drawing boards though.
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=c83ee86c958d74bd429da2be67a5e6ce&topic=35542.0
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Was an actual design from what I can tell
no.
I suggest you read the whole text you linked.