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That can be a problem with the more obscuredesigns, yeah. There is the line art 3-view on Wikipedia that you could at least make a paint scheme image over, but despite how many photos had to be taken as part of flight testing, there don't seem to be many more than what are right on that page to be found online.
May the dakka be with you!A earlier version of this story had the Su-30MKM or MKI as the high-survivability bomb truck (28 250kg bombs) I'm thinking of bringing it back.
Most of the gen5s are kind of visually disappointing I find, except for the YF-23. I mentioned it before, but I particularly hate the F-35 Boondoggle. A fighter that can't fly in the goddamn rain (though supposedly that's been fixed...) is bad enough, but tacking on the honored name of my favorite WWII warbird is just adding insult to injury. At least in the G4/4.5 there are a few standout good-looking ones, like the F-16, F/A-18, F-20, Gripen, and Rafale. Is the Su-47 Berkut close enough to an operational aircraft to be in the running? It's got that sweet FSW design. The MBB Lampyridae is pretty nifty too, but never got beyond a 3/4 scale manned wind tunnel model apparently, and was meant solely for middle-range missile air combat, so probably not really what's needed for your group. The X-36 and Boeing Bird of Prey (or as I like to call it, "boing bop"
) are funky as well but pure tech demonstrators that wouldn't be good for more than getting from A to B in style and possibly making people believe that "I work for space aliens" line - and the X-36 was an unmanned quarter or sixth scale RPV at that.If I somehow won a few million dollars from the lotto and decided to build a sporty light jet, a GE J85 or more likely CJ610 powered, Lampyridae semi-replica is probably what I'd go for. Aside from a second seat for a hired pilot-chauffeur, it'd probably need to have some more wing area to get reasonable civil-airfield takeoff speeds/lengths and low-speed handling. Its straight-lines design would be easier to fabricate than something curvy like a mini-Blackbird, and has more inherent strength from the geometry than a FSW no matter how nifty they look. (Of course, I'd be far more likely to put most of it into investments, some kind of financial structure to pay off property and inheritance taxes on various holdings among my family members when that becomes relevant, and a top-flight 3d graphics workstation in practical terms, but if...)
... Well, that or a fixed-frame version of one of the better transforming robot/fighters like the VF-4, VF-9, VF-19F, or VF-27 from Macross, or my own VX-167 Crazy Bananas. Gundam brickformers need not apply.
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