Finished Builds

[pbhawkin]

FoxOne Bachem B349 M23 'Natter'

As at 1 march 1945 when the first manned launch occurred. The test pilot, Lothar Sieber, was killed when the canopy flew off knocking him unconscious.

[ajmm]

Baynes Heliplane



This was never built so it's in a speculative prototype scheme. If it had flown it would have killed more people than Genghis Khan and his various descendants. Probably for the best, then.

[ajmm]

Ryan XV-5A Vertifan

[ajmm]

McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane

[ajmm]

Boeing XCH-62 HLH (Heavy Lift Helicopter)

[smeg1959]

Focke-Achgelis Fa284, "DM + AZ", Transportstaffel 40 (T/S 40), Bystřice Airfield, Poland, August 1944

[pbhawkin]

Flettner 282 V23 and V15 'Kolibri'

[MerlinJones]

Revell 1/144 Lockheed martin X-35B, Edwards Air Force Base, 2001...41 years after we did it with the Hawker P1127

[smeg1959]

Fieseler Fi166, "Blue 5", 4./JG301, Leck, August 1945

[ajmm]

Since I was in storageland (which logically enough is 265 miles from my work bench so requires some extremely delicate packing and a car journey fraught with worry that that pothole may have dislodged the Ryan's candy-cane probe or snapped the pitot from the Convertiplane) I assembled my VTOL completions on a new shelf which I will gradually fill out with the other experimental VTOL craft that I couldn't crowbar into the GB. Since it was quite fun to see them in one place I thought a photo here wouldn't be amiss...