Manufacturer: HANDLEY-PAGE Model: unknown Name: Sea Victor Type: Date: Status: Operational Country: United Kingdom Service: Royal Navy Designation: Sea Victor Mk. I |
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Synopsis:
Elaboration: Someone who never saw the Handley Page Victor for real can hardly imagine how massive and beautifully weird that aircraft was. Saw it once as a kid and was shocked by its size! This British bomber was unlike any other aircraft before or after it. Its design was just unbelievably modern for that time and long remained so. Considering the importance of flying boats in British Aviation up to the 1950s, I thought a seagoing variant of the Victor (not unlike the American P6M Seamaster in its concept) would have been awesome. Thus was born the Handley Page Sea Victor, a seagoing (flying boat) version. And instead of doing only a photo, I also did one of those fake period ads that I'm crazy about... To make this image, I took the sea, the sky, the main aircraft frame, the foggy water and the wingtip float all from different photographs. I also had to create the bottom hull and redesign the engine nacelle. Viewers' comments:
My comments: I think I'm too lazy to even consider an ekranoplane conversion of anything!!! LOL |