Good looking model John! Bob D... --- On Mon, 11/9/09, John Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
From: John Freeman <[email protected]> Subject: [Papermodels II 40724] John Freeman's Photos--Fauvel AV 36 To: "papermodels" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, November 9, 2009, 11:50 AM Hooray—Summer is over and I can finally get back to models again! This one was almost done months ago. I do like odd-ball craft, and this qualifies. The Fauvel AV 36 tailless glider was designed by—wait for it—monsieur Fauvel. The AV part is the initials of the French words for flying wing. Designed in the fifties, it flew very well, was quite popular, and it is supposed that there are still about a hundred of them out there. Google Fauvel AV 36 for lots of great pictures. Some have argued against the “flying wing” designation because it has a stubby little fuselage, and the fins extend beyond the wing on what are almost little booms. In the immortal words of Pat Paulson (for you older folks out there), picky, picky, picky. The tow hooks are just ahead of the bottoms of the fins. Rather than the usual tow hook on the nose, this plane requires a towline with a yoke to hook in two places. I have not discovered any explanation for this. Another fun fact is that the wings, unlike most gliders, are not detachable. The craft is so short that by folding the rudders up against the wing, and removing a little piece of the nose, it fits on a trailer—sideways. This model was designed by P. Rennesson, and is available from Pierre Gauriat’s site http://pierreg.online.fr/carton/ It is in 1/33 scale, which I reduced to 1/50. The cockpit includes a wealth of detail—seat, harness, stick, rudder pedals, control cables and pulleys, instrument panel—and none of it can be seen on the finished model. Well, you can see the seat and harness if you look carefully, but hey—it was a hoot to build it all anyhow. I chose to show this glider with the canopy open. The owner has just returned from a exhilarating flight, landed in a pasture, and has headed off to find a bush—there being no facilities on a single seat tiny glider. In my pictures I am including one of the Fauvel together with the Bat, another tailless glider of the same era. The Bat is Polish, and the model is designed by Marek.-- John and/or Marzlie Freeman Check us out at-- http://2oldkiters.smugmug.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
