Interesting design, but still pretty cool hehe

I believe the designer went to the Cape Suzette School of Aeronautical Engineering.

hehe thats part of Spontoon right?

Cape Suzette would be in "the Universe next-door".

Sorry, that went over my head. What do you mean? X3

My apologies...

"Cape Suzette" is the big-city part of the setting for the "Tale Spin" funny animal Disney TV cartoon series (from the early 1990s). The stories featured seaplanes, and some of them were designed in an extreme cartoon style. The city would be a location that might have universities or technical schools to teach cartoon aircraft design. (As you see, some of my aircraft designs also have a flavor of cartoony design.)

But "Cape Suzette" city is in the Disney company cartoon story-telling universe. The city is not in the Spontoon Island stories at all. 8) It is in the Disney story-telling universe, separate & "next door".

Spontoon Island was made to be a 'public domain' setting for stories, and is not supposed to have any corporate trademarked characters or settings in it.

ah, thanks for clearing that up. Sorry you had to in the first place.

That's OK. A lot of this older cartoon culture stuff is very esoteric, and full of jargon.
It's too easy for me to assume what viewers know, and speak in code-words.
You were very courteous to let me know that it was confusing. Thanks!

Hehe no problem, just glad I understand now lol

for all of your indiana jones needs! XD

You have much of the Spontoon Island setting correct...
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/

haha! i had never seen that! thats pretty cool!

Lots of text & art to explore....

awesome! great job and keep up the great work!

And had the aerodynamics and handling of a brick!

I love the native canoe.

Let's just say, "It was very stable in flight...."

The canoe is partially based on the small dug-out river canoes from the west coast of Washington state. The prow for those canoes is often an extended stylized elk-head (without antlers). The stylization masks actual utilitarian features of design. The sterns were different.

It could work. The wings are a tad short, but perhaps the engines are really powerful. You know what's said of the F-4 "Phantom" right?

The engines are supposed to be powerful. Maybe the lower semi-wing helps with the lift? My design goes towards the 'chibi' toony style, but the viewers seem to want more realistic proportions.

Was the F-4 the aircraft where it was said it "...lands like a brick."?

The F-4 Phantom was reported to fly like a brick, glide like a brick, and land like a brick. It was a design that made it evident that with an application of enough thrust, even a brick could fly.

way cool...

V.

Thank you.

Kinda looks like a bus with wings, and yet doesn't seem in any way out of place in Spontoon :)

Yes. It is wide and boxy, compared to most of the real-world medium-sized aircraft of the time. Some of the smaller & thinner military aircraft would have the long 'greenhouse' of cabin, for the crew to be able to observe all around. The passenger cabin is supposed to be wide, almost bus-like, with 2 seats across, and a small aisle inbetween.

Very cool :D

The only way to travel! That looks like such a cool plane!

Feel free to reserve a ride.

ooh - I just managed to find a full set of TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY, bye the bye! Gleeee!

I'm also tinkering about with a1930's space adventure idea....

That was an excellent seaplane adventure TV show, and one of the influences on Spontoon Island. (But first it was an influence on Tale Spin!) Enjoy the shows!

And keep us all posted on your new story-crafting.

I'm in the final 50 pages of the latest EFFECTUATORS novel....


working working working....

Reminds me of a certain kind of "futuristic" modern design you used to see... oh, late '50s maybe. It was still turning up in architecture in the '70s, generally for fast food Raman joints downtown.

Yes!

this inspires me to try to make a model of something like that.

ghadz, i remember watching tail spin and gold monkey when they were both NEW. my dad was still alive, and he loved tailspin too.

It was well written, and some of the episodes had outstanding animation. (Disney out-sourced some of the animation to many different studios.)

a long time before those, there used to be, back in the fifties and maybe into the sixties, something called 'adventures in paradise'.
and then there were the doc savage novels, which i'm not sure exactly when they were written, but they were already considered 'old school' in the sixties, so they had to have been at least as early as the forties, maybe even earlier. oh heck, and then there was something called terry and the pirates, that used to be in the sunday funny papers.

I remember the "Adventures in Paradise" title... I must have seen some of them. The "Doc Savage" novels had their own pulp magazine in the 1930s and 40s, the source of the reprints. A publisher in Texas is doing a reprint magazine, pulp-magazine sized, with two novels in each issue. Some comic shops may have it. "Terry and the Pirates" comic strip was an influence, as was the Mad magazine parody of that strip.

Yikes. a seaplane designed by the Thembrian Navy. (Talespin reference FTW. )

This is the export model. The Thembrian home version has more rivets. "More Rivets!"

Yeah, because rivets generate more lift, right?