Scratch-built 1/72 BICh 7a

From the archive (2007):

The flying parable of Boris Ivanovich Cheranovsky.

The BIch 7a is the predecessor of the BICh 14, a twin engine transport, also a parabola wing design, being the 7 a bit smaller (could carry just two comrades).

Yes, it flew, having some trouble with the engine but otherwise pretty good in performance. Not much came out of it, though. 

If you think that this was 1932, and also considered the Russian winter, only admiration can be felt. 

A singular machine that could well have been included by Andrei Tarkovsky in “Solaris” –by the way, the original one-.