Gee Bee 'Eightster'

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Came across this on RCGroups. com, here :-


http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1265873&page=619&postnum=9280


"this is a 'scale' model of a plane that never got off the ground. The Gee Bee Eightster, an airliner that was to be built by Gee Bee. It sure looked cool, but the company was bankrupt before a full size prototype was done."


Does anyone have any further information? Attached below is an image of the model.


cheers,
Robin.
 

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Please note that C-4 was to be the Fourster, C-6 was the Sixster and C-8 was the Eightster.

According to Aerofiles (which may be wrong) the model pictured in Aerofiles (below) depicts the C-6. To me it's consistent with the C-8 Eightster.

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Here is a sketch from Air Pictorial dated April 1956 (courtesy of Avia Deja Vu) supposed to depict the Eightster (probably named for 2 crew + six passengers).
 

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The same design also appeared as the Eightster in the form of a flight simulation model (now no longer available online) for which I saved some captures at the time:
 

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All "What If" work, yes, but the closest we can get at this point to the feel of what the C-6/C-8 aircraft might have looked like, since it carries the various schemes of the most prominent military and civilian types of the time...
 

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Many thanks, Star! I did have a suspicion that the Eightster might not be a real project, but now it's been confirmed as genuine.


cheers,
Robin.
 
I guess that I got to this posting late; if anyone would like a 3-view of this aircraft, here it is.
 

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This is very nice!! Thanks a lot for sharing this beautiful plan.
 
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