dieseltaylor Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130418/CARNEWS01/130419869 Quite interesting really. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 It's always been obvious that tailfins and many other styling affectations of the '50s and later were inspired by airplanes and rockets, but I think that attributing it all to the P-38 is going too far. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Well it's either the P-38 or the B-24 or the Lancaster - most other a/c only had 1 tailfin!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 or the B-25, Fw 189, P-61, BV 138, SM.91, Halifax, Do 17, Me 110, ... ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted April 22, 2013 Author Share Posted April 22, 2013 or perhaps an American plane!!!! The report seems highly believable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Like I said - "most"..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 or the B-25, Fw 189, P-61, BV 138, SM.91, Halifax, Do 17, Me 110, ... ? The Whitley, the Ju-86, the Nell, the Vampire... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanonier Reichmann Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 Is it too much of a stretch to say the Bleriot 125? Hmmmm? Regards KR 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanonier Reichmann Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 Just to knock this one on the head, I'll list all the twin boom planes for the sake of completeness. AAI RQ-2 Pioneer AAI RQ-7 Shadow Abrams P-1 Explorer AD Scout AD Seaplane Type 1000 Adam A500 Adam A700 ADI Condor Advanced High Performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft Akaflieg Stuttgart FS-28 Avispa Albatros D.VI Alenia Aeronautica Sky-Y Antonov A-40 Arado E.340 Armstechno NITI BAE Systems Phoenix BAE Systems SkyEye BAT Crow Bell XP-52 Blériot 125 Blohm & Voss BV 138 Burnelli CBY-3 Canaero Toucan Caproni Ca.1 (1914) Caproni Ca.3 Caproni Ca.4 Caproni Ca.5 Cessna O-2 Skymaster Cessna Skymaster Cessna XMC Conroy Stolifter Convair Model 48 Charger Curtiss CT De Havilland Sea Vixen De Havilland Vampire De Havilland Venom DRDO Nishant Fairchild AC-119 Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar Fairchild C-82 Packet Fairchild XC-120 Packplane Fauvel AV.36 Focke-Wulf Flitzer Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Focke-Wulf Project VIII Fokker D.XXIII Fokker F.25 Fokker G.I Friedrichshafen FF.31 Friedrichshafen FF.34 Galileo Mirach 26 General Aircraft GAL.47 Ghods Mohajer Gotha WD.3 Grahame-White Ganymede Heston JC.6 Hughes D-2 Hughes XF-11 Hydra Technologies Ehécatl I.S.T. XL-15 Tagak IAI Arava IAI Eitan IAI Heron IAI RQ-5 Hunter IAI Scout IAI Searcher Ion Aircraft Ion Kalinin K-7 Larkin Skylark Lockheed P-38 Lightning Lockheed XP-49 Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning Macchi M.12 Mirsad-1 Nord Noratlas North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco Northrop F-15 Reporter Northrop Grumman Firebird Northrop P-61 Black Widow Piper PA-7 RTAF-5 RUAG Ranger S-TEC Sentry Saab 21 Saab 21R Savoia-Marchetti S.65 Savoia-Marchetti SM.88 Savoia-Marchetti SM.92 Savoia-Marchetti SM.91 Scaled Composites Model 395 Scaled Composites Pond Racer Scaled Composites Proteus Scaled Composites White Knight Schweizer RU-38 Twin Condor SELEX Galileo Falco Shahbal SIAI-Marchetti FN.333 Riviera Sikorsky S-38 Sikorsky S-40 Sikorsky S-41 SIPA S.200 Minijet Spectrum SA-550 Sukhoi Su-80 TAI Baykuş TAI Pelikan Transavia PL-12 Airtruk Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer Vultee XP-54 Vultee XP-68 Tornado Weymann 66 Yakovlev Yak-141 Yakovlev Yak-58 It's probably one of the above. Happy now? Regards Jim R. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 To be fair, the list should only include models that were extant during or before the '48 Caddy was designed, and its fins should have a rounded shape, like the Caddy's. That still leaves plenty of candidates. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanonier Reichmann Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 I just knew I'd be caught out with this list. Still, if it's going to be anybody it might as well be ol' man Emrys. Regards Jim R. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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