Subject: Re: My little "What-If" gallery contribution
From: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
To: "Dave McGowan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:06:18 -0700

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGowan" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 3:50 PM
Subject: My little "What-If" gallery contribution

> The X-41 Toucan is a "what-if" model based on the old 1/48 scale Gee Bee
kit
> we've all been avoiding for years.  The use of such an aircraft would
> probably be for high-mobility defense of bases with lille room for
aircraft
> storage.  Mostly, I just always thought a Gee Bee would make a great jet.
>
> After filling all the fuselage and wing marking recesses, I installed the
> intake from a "Shockwave" Jet Truck kit into the old engine cowling and
cut
> a section out of the lower tail to accommodate the exhaust flare from an
old
> 1/8 scale chopper tailpipe.  Markings were spares out of a buddy's
extensive
> collection, and paint is standard gray over white USAF.  Metallics were
> drybrushed over black for added depth, and the kit pilot was replaced with
> one from an old Tamiya Jet kit.
>
> LOA:  Dinky
> Wingspan: Minimal
> Armament: 2 ea.: Colt .45 Semi Auto (cable-operated)
>
> Dave McGowan,
> Ventura, CA
>
>