Let’s give the whacky French designers a break, they were geniuses compared to some Russian inter-war competition. Exhibit A – the Kalinin K-7 heavy bomber, first flight August 1933, crashing after its 7th test-flight due to (a) terminal instability (b) a tail boom fell off…
Designed with the goal to empty out the spare parts box.
Well, You know what You have to do now,
right?
Only Russia could out Fugly the French!
That K7 is an abomination of abominations. El Crappo del tutti crappi, if you will…
Yet so nearly a war-winner! Imagine only having to make one weapon – put floats on it and it’s an airborne battleship, put free-wheeling tracks on it and it becomes the ultimate tank. I’m sure the Russians were working on a submarine version too…probably still are…
The Potez 540 kit is so old, my father has built it when he was younger than Im today . And it already was a re-box by that time !
I need a kit of that Blackburd!! Makes the Overstrand look graceful!
Here you go
Or the late version
Well its a flying boat. What did you expect ? Look at Grumman Duck… also its not like people have stopped building silly looking planes. When A10 first appered , nobody would call it a gracefull design…
You Beat me to it. I was going to post the Blackburn Blackburn as one UGLY plane
I’m a bit late on parade here but there was one of these on a trader’s stand opposite to where I was exhibiting this last Sunday at Yeovil model show; it was going for £100.00. In conversation with the vendor he informed me that they normally retail at around £300.00.
I’m no aircraft modeller so can’t really comment but it implies that one on sale for £100.00 was a bargain - perhaps?
What tha Fug???
100 Quid for a Heller Potez? Shoot, first person who wants to give me $100 can have it! I think that guy was as high as his prices. I saw a few on ebay for like, $30 or so. That seems more reasonable.
If it was worth that much, I can guarantee you I’d sell it!
Indeed, but there should be some small print on the side of the box advising that the £15,000 hangar required isn’t included.
I have a tiny suspicion that the £300 price tag MIGHT just possibly have been referring to this kit:
$300 from PM Model Store in Ukraine …
That makes a lot more sense!
Still a lot of jack, but that would be a big kit!
General characteristics
- Crew: 11 (2 pilots, navigator/bombardier, radio operator/gunner (nose 20mm cannon), flight engineer, 4x gunners (twin DA machine-guns in four gondola positions), 2x gunners (20 mm cannon in tail boom tips)
- Capacity: (120 passengers / 7,000 kg (15,432 lb) cargo, in civilian configuration)
- Length: 28 m (91 ft 10 in)
- Wingspan: 53 m (173 ft 11 in)
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Height: 12.4 m (40 ft 8 in) (estimated to top of engine nacelle)
53 m = 73.6 cm wide, almost 29 inches, 2 feet 5 inches
3 m = 38.9 cm long