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Carreidas 160

dave hoeffgen

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Just curious if somebody knows this one. :duck:

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That came much faster than I expected. Glad to see there's some more Tintin fans around here.
 
Oh yes, oh yes - I especially look forward to the interior. Will there be an additional dog basket for "Snowy"?
 
manschy said:
Oh yes, oh yes - I especially look forward to the interior. Will there be an additional dog basket for "Snowy"?
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I don't remember a dog basket.
Other thant that I just got bored yesterday so I started to model a bit. Not sure how far I will get with this anyway.
 
I read every single one of these (except for the one they pretend doesn't exist) when I was a kid, I was always fascinated by how much detail they put into the airplanes (I think there was a Trident in one of the books and it had the offset nose gear and everything). Apparently most of them were drawn by technical artist Roger Leloup, who was a huge aviation fan.
 
TurboCompound said:
I read every single one of these (except for the one they pretend doesn't exist) when I was a kid, I was always fascinated by how much detail they put into the airplanes (I think there was a Trident in one of the books and it had the offset nose gear and everything). Apparently most of them were drawn by technical artist Roger Leloup, who was a huge aviation fan.
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Yeah I also remember the Trident. Once I knew about it the point when Roger Leloup joined Hergé's team seems even obvious as suddenly everything is full of "modern" jet airliners.

Still the Carreidas 160 is one of his most famous and genius inventions and to be honest one of the actual reasons I fell in love with aviation back when I was 8.
 
I still have a copy of Flight 714, I scanned a few pages and put all the panels where you could see the cockpit together. Judging by the shape of the glareshield in the 4th panel and the three rows of engine gauges with the annunciators to the right in the first panel, it looks to me like the main panel is similar to the L-188 but with only three sets of engine instruments instead of four. One of the characters says that the panel on the left side of the cockpit is a navigator station. The book was written before INS and LORAN, so my guess is that the station has some sort of Doppler system and maybe some other primitive transatlantic navigation methods. The comic also mentions that the three engines provide a total of 18,500 lbs of thrust.
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TurboCompound said:
I still have a copy of Flight 714, I scanned a few pages and put all the panels where you could see the cockpit together. Judging by the shape of the glareshield in the 4th panel and the three rows of engine gauges with the annunciators to the right in the first panel, it looks to me like the main panel is similar to the L-188 but with only three sets of engine instruments instead of four. One of the characters says that the panel on the left side of the cockpit is a navigator station. The book was written before INS and LORAN, so my guess is that the station has some sort of Doppler system and maybe some other primitive transatlantic navigation methods. The comic also mentions that the three engines provide a total of 18,500 lbs of thrust.
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Thanks for the research and sorry for my late reply.
I did a quick search for the L-188 and the cockpit looks indeed almost identical left for the number of engines.
Regarding the navigation I found it is also equipped with ILS/VOR receivers when I discovered some original technical reference drawings by Roger Leloup: http://carreidas160jet.blogspot.com/
Not sure how far I will go regarding systems.
 
Small update:

I added the the small Galley windows and started working on the main landing gear (very little reference online).

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I rescaled the entire model to match the dimensions given in Roger Leloup's drawings as accurately as possible.
I'll also need to redo the engines. The shape is far off in the blueprint I used.
 
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