Sukoi Su-39

Gallery Article by Eugene Madara on Jan 7 2018

Silly Week 2018

 

      

I offer the Top Secret (not even announced in Russia) Sukoi Su-39 "Mozhet byt" ("maybe" in Russian) hypersonic fighter. 

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The main fuselage came from a plastic hand soap bottle borrowed from my wife, "spares box" wings and landing gear, a model rocket cockpit/forward fuselage nose, and three engines (wing-tip engines with SR-71 "spike" came from two F-4 Phantom drop tanks with tips cut off and pushed back through the tank. The center engine exhaust cone is the hand soap bottle internal nozzle. 

Placement of the Su-39 on Model Club Meeting and Contest tables has produced knowing nods by viewers. 

Happy Silly Week

Eugene Madara

Photos and text © by Eugene Madara