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Vessel Fictional USAF tailsitter

JonnyBGoode

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I found this photo on Facebook. No idea of the source.

Anyone want to try to model it? Looks like it would be fun!

It looks like a standard tailsitter, but it also looks like it has oxygen intakes above the... wings? So maybe it is also atmospheric?

No cockpit or windows, so it's either a drone or they run it on instruments like a submarine. I wish I could find some more images of it...

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Oh wait, found another image. It shows people next to it so it's not a drone.

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Artist's name is Paul-Lloyd. He has an interesting collection of spaceship art on DeviantArt. Lots of fun stuff to get the modelers drooling.

https://www.deviantart.com/paul-lloyd/gallery/all
 
Reminds me of the tail sitter VTOL test aircraft the AF and Navy had like the Lockheed XFV-1 and Convair XFY-1 Pogo.
 
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