The mysterious Japanese Nieuport-24 -based experimental
plane is that sort of contraption that I just feel compelled to model.
The step-by-step building article is here:
Besides one lonely photo, absolutely nothing else was found
during a long research period that spanned may years and involved contacting
everyone I knew with a Japanese connection or a flair for strange spawns of
aviation.
Based on that one photo, a 3-view sketch was devised to help
visualize and engineer the model.
As said in the construction article, the Roden kit was used as
a starting point and all the other elements were scratch-built.
The mystery remains: what was it? who built it? and why? Did
it fly? is it a triplane? is it a random accretion of parts that resulted from a
crash that was re-tied and is flying now in orderly formation?
Will we ever know?
And meanwhile, should we call it Wingzilla?
cool, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure, Mike.
DeleteWhat to say!!!, just extraordinary.
ReplyDeleteThanks Armando! :-)
DeleteGrazie Leonardo!
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