Its the model many of you have been waiting for....

**3Turner** · #1 06-10-2012, 01:51 AM

The Oddball-O-Rama Special Prize commissioned paper model design has been listed at Ecardmodels. The winner of the commissioned design, Papermate, picked the YC-14...a true oddball looking aircraft.

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**murphyaa** · #2 06-10-2012, 02:01 AM

I didn't know the 2nd one was over at AMARG. Now I need to get on the tour next time I'm down there.

I wonder if it's complete. The one at Pima looks kinda forlorn without it's engines.

**3Turner** · #3 06-10-2012, 08:15 AM

Looks like she's a little more wrapped up

Although I don't know if the engines would also be preserved.

Click or hover to enlarge....taken from google maps satellite.

Its the model many of you have been waiting for....-screen-cap-yc14.jpg

**murphyaa** · #4 06-10-2012, 04:05 PM

Kinda looks like the engines are on in that pic. I've seen others with them off though, so no telling what's up with it.

**Texman** · #5 06-10-2012, 06:05 PM

The engines are removed, just the main portions of the nacelle remain on. The nacelle intake is removed.

**murphyaa** · #6 06-10-2012, 08:00 PM

I wonder what they have against the engine intakes? Course, same thing happened to Pima's Budd Conestoga.

**Texman** · #7 06-10-2012, 08:16 PM

From the looks of the design, the intake ring probably had to be removed to facilitate the engine change. Looks like the engine was slid in from the front.

**murphyaa** · #8 06-10-2012, 08:31 PM

I think so. And the cowling probably attached to the engine somehow, so without the engine, nowhere to hang the cowling.

**whulsey** · #9 06-10-2012, 08:32 PM

Always thought that was a cool looking plane. Here's a couple of shots from the last time I was down at Pima.

**Yale** · #10 06-10-2012, 08:56 PM

The Soviets were impressed enough to make their own version -- and I suspect it got used more than the original.