Hints on the upcoming Virtavia aircraft?

[fsafranek]

I love it ... but it makes me want to say: "Good Night, Mrs. Calabash, Wherever You Are"!
or "HACHA ... CHA".

Yes, thank you. All along I've been trying to figure out who or what character that nose reminds me of. Jimmy Durante works but I keep seeing some cartoon character also but I can't out a name on it.

 

[Sascha66]

Yes, thank you. All along I've been trying to figure out who or what character that nose reminds me of. Jimmy Durante works but I keep seeing some cartoon character also but I can't out a name on it.

Elmer Fudd?

 

[andersel]

How about Eugene The Jeep from "Popeye"?

 

[Bill Kestell]

Could you possibly be thinking of the dog in the cartoon strip, The Duplex?

 

[andersel]

Elmer Fudd?

Eugene The Jeep?

 

[andersel]

Oops! Sorry for the 2 posts

 

[YoYo]

Will radar operate or its only texture inside?

 

[Anneke]

Yoyo look at the pics and description and you probably have your answer that it seems that the radar is just eye candy.

http://www.virtavia.com/gallery_SP-5B.html

 

[jojohnson9]

Will radar operate or its only texture inside?

The large center display is not a radar indicator. It is a device that showed the aircraft movement when tracking a submarine. A stylus inside moved against the back of special paper and literally scratched a visible line indicating the planes movements. I don't remember the name or the designation of it...it's been almost fifty years since I had to work on one (SP-2E and P-3B). But I do remember that keeping the stylus properly mounted to the strings that drove it was a real pain. Changing the special paper was easy for some, but I seemed to have a knack for screwing it up.

 

[CG_1976]

Hum, looks like another purchase to give my alphasim Coastie Goats (HU16) company.

 

[fsafranek]

The large center display is not a radar indicator. It is a device that showed the aircraft movement when tracking a submarine. A stylus inside moved against the back of special paper and literally scratched a visible line indicating the planes movements. I don't remember the name or the designation of it...it's been almost fifty years since I had to work on one (SP-2E and P-3B). But I do remember that keeping the stylus properly mounted to the strings that drove it was a real pain. Changing the special paper was easy for some, but I seemed to have a knack for screwing it up.

Thanks for the reply (and hands-on experience remarks). Definitely not a radar screen.

Until we can track an object on the surface or underwater (P3D?) it's just going to stare back at you.