Rodrigo Avella - My Artwork

Rodrigo Avella said:
Hello! This is a design of mine:
https://rodrigoavella.com/projects/rAlodOhttps://rodrigoavella.com/projects/eNP0GPurchased by Collins Aerospace on Turbosquid. For a short period of time I sold this model on that platform. Until I realized the commissions they charged. Collins Aerospace apparently bought it. Best regards!
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I'm glad you at least got paid for the work.

This really should not come as a surprise to anyone. Buying commercial art/models like this is an easy way for companies to avoid any possibility of inadvertently breaching classification on a real design. All Collins needs is something that evokes the right "feel" without having any correspondence to a sensitive design that they might be involved with. Saves them running everything past publication review because they have a clear records trail to an unclassified source and the folks making those ads or websites or whatever do not have access to the sensitive design.
 
Just stumbled across this today. Always thought an A-10 replacement, starting with an F-89 Sorpion, but putting the engines above the wing, (and other mods of course) would be cool. Was looking for something else this morning and saw this. Love it!

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sferrin said:
Just stumbled across this today. Always thought an A-10 replacement, starting with an F-89 Sorpion, but putting the engines above the wing, (and other mods of course) would be cool. Was looking for something else this morning and saw this. Love it!

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I don't understand the relationship between an all-weather high-altitude interceptor from the cold war and a post-Vietnam COIN.

The Scorpion's engines and all hydraulic circuits were located at the bottom of the fuselage to simplify the design of the airframe, a ground attack aircraft having the engines on top to protect them from small arms fire from the ground.

The use of two turbojets in the Scorpion was necessary due to the lack of power available in the engines of the time, in the A-10 for survival criteria.

In my opinion it doesn't make much sense to use two turbojets on a (expendable) drone that needs to get close enough to the ground to shoot with a Gatling. Nor does the piloted version make sense when drone technology already exists.
 
Justo Miranda said:
I don't understand the relationship between an all-weather high-altitude interceptor from the cold war and a post-Vietnam COIN.

The Scorpion's engines and all hydraulic circuits were located at the bottom of the fuselage to simplify the design of the airframe, a ground attack aircraft having the engines on top to protect them from small arms fire from the ground.

The use of two turbojets in the Scorpion was necessary due to the lack of power available in the engines of the time, in the A-10 for survival criteria.

In my opinion it doesn't make much sense to use two turbojets on a (expendable) drone that needs to get close enough to the ground to shoot with a Gatling. Nor does the piloted version make sense when drone technology already exists.
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You missed my point. I didn't mean an actual F-89. I just meant the general OML.
 

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