T Bolt
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User name: T Bolt
Name: Glenn
Category 2, Intermediate
Kit: Special Hobby McDonnell XF-85 Goblin
Scale: 1/48th.
Accessories: Cart mostly scratch-built
This is my entry for the Cold War Group Build. Special Hobby's kit is limited run injected molded plastic with resin parts and a vacuformed canopy. I will be making it out of the box using the supplied decals.
The XF-85 Goblin was designed to be used as a parasite fighter carried by the B-36 to provide the bomber with fighter escort protection on its bombing missions. The plan called for B-36 to carry as many as three XF-85's along with its nuclear payload. In the event the bomber were attacked the fighters would be launched from the mother ship and then recovered afterwards by means of a trapeze device in the B-36's bomb bay, much as the airship USS Macon had launched and recovered its escort of Sparrowhawk fighters in the early 1930's.
Only two prototypes were built in 1948 and flight testing using a B-29 found the Goblin to be stable and easy to fly, but problems were found when trying to hook up to the bomber at the end of a flight due to the turbulence caused by the Superfortress, and the program was cancelled. The two prototypes are still in existence, one at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the other one at the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska.
I hope to start the project in the next week or so.
Name: Glenn
Category 2, Intermediate
Kit: Special Hobby McDonnell XF-85 Goblin
Scale: 1/48th.
Accessories: Cart mostly scratch-built
This is my entry for the Cold War Group Build. Special Hobby's kit is limited run injected molded plastic with resin parts and a vacuformed canopy. I will be making it out of the box using the supplied decals.
The XF-85 Goblin was designed to be used as a parasite fighter carried by the B-36 to provide the bomber with fighter escort protection on its bombing missions. The plan called for B-36 to carry as many as three XF-85's along with its nuclear payload. In the event the bomber were attacked the fighters would be launched from the mother ship and then recovered afterwards by means of a trapeze device in the B-36's bomb bay, much as the airship USS Macon had launched and recovered its escort of Sparrowhawk fighters in the early 1930's.
Only two prototypes were built in 1948 and flight testing using a B-29 found the Goblin to be stable and easy to fly, but problems were found when trying to hook up to the bomber at the end of a flight due to the turbulence caused by the Superfortress, and the program was cancelled. The two prototypes are still in existence, one at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the other one at the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska.
I hope to start the project in the next week or so.
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