Yet another antique! Vulcan 2B

[ratfugel]

Still don't know what LMFAO stands for. I've put various translations to it. None of them good. One of them involves using a very funny word which made my wife fall over laughing. Says it serves me right. She also said I ought to get a working copy of Illustrator and stop making silly edges in CS4. I think she's been around computers just too long for the good of my health.

[Jesters-Ink]

The "LMFAO" was at the 2 pregnant Vulcan line drawings.
I've seen this aircraft up close (and some will be yawning at this next line) sat in the cockpit during an engine test . This does not mean to say I have got the outline right or the lighting, or that my Dad is a policeman. It may all be BS since I am not working from factory drawings (does anyone have tham by any chance?), but with the data I have at hand, its as close as she is going to get.

Original drawing is A3 at 600dpi for those who are into numbers.

[ratfugel]

For what it's worth, here are the two drawings overlapped. It's a moot point which is nearest to being right. My money is on the coloured one.

rat.

[Vigilante]

ratfugel - LMFAO means "laughing my f****** a** off." But I'm sure that Jes was laughing at the line-drawing plans, not at your profile. The Ian Huntley drawing make the graceful Vulcan look like a flying hippopotumus, but your profile has the correct, beautiful shape of the aircraft, as Jester said.

I hope you keep working on this, the Vulcan is one of my favorite aircraft of all time.

[JMSmith]

the short answer,

neither, they are both too fat, and both have it too fat in the same place.
immediately in front of the engine is where the centre section starts, this should be 9ft 7in deep, both drawings have the right depth at the rear of the centre section but for some strange reason they both go to far up towards the front.
if you look at the combined image above, follow the rudder fillet on Ians drawing and take that line horizontal to the front, that is how much they are out.

jester i hate you, you just knew i would not rest until i sorted this out, i've lost 2hrs work on the spearfish now

[JMSmith]

further more,

jester as the shape just nice from the rear of the nosecone back, but i think rat as captured the shape and feel of the nosecone better.
see, i am not always right, that why i like this site, someone will usually help to find the correct shape.

thank you Jester

[Jesters-Ink]

Ya welcome

[ratfugel]

Whilst you are all in the mood, can anybody improve on this before I get started?

rat. P.S. I'll probably get round to fixing the Vulcan after I've cut the grass (sweep snow off first, of course).

[Clave]

I gave up on my Vulcan, precisely because of the lack of good reference drawings....

[AGNT_Matt]

jester something looks iffy about that nose... i won't post how far matt got on his