Nice looking gliders! About the interior detail, even if we don't see it, we know is there.
On Nov 9, 4:34 pm, Bob Dennison <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
