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OBAman has it. It was indeed the projected transport version of the Tupolev Tu.64 the Tu.66 
You say it was not influenced by the B.29 however I am sure you will agree the nose is very similar.
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You say it was not influenced by the B.29 however I am sure you will agree the nose is very similar.Mel
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Indeed it is, and the wing profile too. However I remember reading how infuriated and insulted Tupolev was that those who had to be obeyed had no faith in his own design and made him copy the B-29 instead because they knew it worked, he must have felt like 
Here's mine to have a go at;
Here's mine to have a go at;
Some sort of Boeing with a T-tail? Maybe the original 757 design?
From Wikipedia;
From Wikipedia;
For much of its development, the 757 retained the 727's T-tail configuration,[7] combined with under-wing engines, but a conventional tail was ultimately adopted one year after its first airline orders.
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Yes its the F-29, well done. This was the middle one of three attempts by Fokker to produce a follow up to the F.28 before they settled on the Fokker 100. The Super F.28 of 1978 was probably the most elegant being very long and slim, rear engined with an almost glider like wing and using only the nose and tail from the original F.28, I suppose its nearest likeness today would be the CRJ900, only a bit bigger of course. Then after the F.29 there was the MDF.100, a joint project with McDonnell Douglas, it was virtually the F.29 with a low set tail before they went full circle and back to a stretched F.28 for the final aircraft.
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Thanks for the info, Obaman. My Fokker sources ended with the F.29 so i was not aware of the others. While the back is pure F.28 the front could pass for an Airbus A.320 - any ancestry there I wonder ?
Meanwhile lets see how long this one lasts .....Doug
Meanwhile lets see how long this one lasts .....Doug
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Thanks. Here's a project I followed as a boy after seeing it featured on the BBC coverage of the Farnborough air show in the late '70's. It was built but the money ran out before it could be flown and I never found out what happened to the prototype.
I wasn't sure if anyone else would have heard of it.
(Like the Sheriff I think it was built but never flown?)
Umm a/c design looks Italian/French?
Richter Delta
Richter later (1988) altered the design for the Israeli military and cropdusting industry...
1988 | 3370 | Flight Archive
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Thanks Noyade...certainly an unusual machine. It was the altered design I was looking at, hence my confusion over the engine. Kind of looks like a cross between something by Mr Rutan and the Osprey 2 amphibian!
Lets go back in time...and see if this one will last long:
Lets go back in time...and see if this one will last long: