Sep 042009
Much to do on this model. The central “spine” looks to be too fat by a wide margin, and of course the nozzles are completely nonexistent so far. Still, it’s a start.
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The tail looks a too high at the back compared to the mock-up:
http://www.ufonet.be/UFOLAR/insanufo/AVRO-Omega.html
Should the air intake (and indeed the whole aircraft) be a little wider?
The whole spine has been notably reduced in size via the magic of scaling. As for the inlet… the width is based on the sole drawing I have of the “Spade,” which shows only a top view (which does nto entirely match the mockup).
There’s more drawings of it here:
http://www.laesieworks.com/ifo/lib/AVRO-omega.html
and here:
http://www.stenulson.net/rcflight/manta.htm
Color shot of the mock-up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Y_mockup_colour.jpg
I’m trying to figure out what the thing that looks like a canopy on the bottom of it is all about.
Ever see these Arizona UFO photos from July of 1947?: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread393046/pg1
They were briefly classified by the government, but the thing looks a tad familier, doesn’t it?
As does Kenneth Arnold’s sketch of the things he saw in late June of the same year, around halfway down this page: http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron3.htm
So why are UFOs that look a lot like Project Y flying around years before Project Y got started?
> There’s more drawings of it here:
Actually, no, there aren’t. What those drawings show is a later, presumably more refined and smaller vehicle. Not the same one built as a full scal mockup.
> I’m trying to figure out what the thing that looks like a canopy on the bottom of it is all about.
Since the vehicle was a VTOL tailsitter, the underside canopy was proBably to provide the pilot visibility of the ground during landing.
> So why are UFOs that look a lot like Project Y flying around years before Project Y got started?
You’re assuming that UFOs that looked a lot like Project Y actually *were* flying around.
I don’t know if the mock-up was full scale… looking at the ladder in the background, it looks more like it was 50% scale.
“Since the vehicle was a VTOL tailsitter, the underside canopy was proBably to provide the pilot visibility of the ground during landing”
Unlike the Avro Y-2, this thing would have landed vertical with the back end of the aircraft facing towards the ground, like in the Convair Pogo.
That’s the only way it _can_ land, as it doesn’t have any sort of landing gear to let it do a non-vertical landing belly-first, nor a means of deflecting its jet thrust at ninety degrees so it is heading out of the bottom of the aircraft in a belly-first landing position.