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?
Alongside the Flick-Reinig Apteroid, other of my models with the same negative aspect ratio concept:
cool, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure, Mike.
DeleteWhat to say!!!, just extraordinary.
ReplyDeleteThanks Armando! :-)
DeleteGrazie Leonardo!
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