Found something from B5 that might actually fly!

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LaughingCheese
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Found something from B5 that might actually fly!

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Several ships, actually:

First is the Earth Alliance Atmospheric Shuttle

The Centauri Atmospheric Shuttle

The Centauri Sentri Fighter

Perhaps with minor tweaking; the air foil looks a little too bent..

And the Zephri 109 Light Fighter
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Very nice.
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Sentri and Zephyr wouldn't be able to fly as is, at least not as model aircraft.

The Thunderbolt is another candidate. You might be able to make it work depending on how you worked the nacelles and their fins.
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Tyyr wrote:Sentri and Zephyr wouldn't be able to fly as is, at least not as model aircraft.
Oh, of course the Sentri would need modification, probably by making the air foil less bent.

I'm not sure why you think the Zephyr wouldn't fly, is it because its a flying wing?

All it would need are minor stabilizers, and if I didn't want to change the shape that much, then there's someone who has found a way to make tailless RC aircraft fly.

Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-5ctTWQODk

Also, there are flying wing RC kits, though they have some kind of stabilizer on the end of the wing.
The Thunderbolt is another candidate. You might be able to make it work depending on how you worked the nacelles and their fins.
I had thought about it, though I thought it would be more work than the ones I listed.
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