Vintage XF-12 Rainbow All Wood Model Airplane on aluminum and mahogany Base For Sale


Vintage XF-12 Rainbow All Wood Model Airplane on aluminum and mahogany Base
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Vintage XF-12 Rainbow All Wood Model Airplane on aluminum and mahogany Base:
$69.00

Vintage XF-12 Rainbow All Wood Model Airplane on aluminum and mahogany Base.
Some paint loss as depicted in photos.
Some missing props on the propellers as seen in the pictures.
Mounted on a very nice aluminum and mahogany base.
The base allows the plane to rotate 360 degrees.
The XF-12 Rainbow was a four-engine, all-metal prototype monoplane designed by the Republic Aviation Company in the late 1940s. Like most large airplanes of the era, it used radial engines—in this case, the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 "Wasp Major"—to drive propellers.

The XF-12 was referred to as "flying on all fours" meaning: four engines, 400mph (640km/h) cruise, 4,000mi (6,400km) range, at 40,000ft (12,000m).[1]The aircraft was designed to maximize aerodynamic efficiency. Although innovative, thejet engineand the end ofWorld War 2made it obsolete, and it therefore did not enter production.

The United States Army wanted a long-range photo-reconnaissance aircraft, and the Rainbow was Republic's attempt to provide it. With a cruise speed of over 450 statute miles per hour (725 kilometers per hour), it was certainly fast, but the Air Force (spun off from the Army Air Force in 1947) decided that the Boeing RB-50 would fill the need instead. As a result, Republic cancelled its plans to build not only the XF-12 but the RC-2 civilian airliner version as well, leaving only the two prototypes. One crashed leaving Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, and the other ended up as a target on the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.




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