Model-Airplane Builder
Here are some good ideas for the traditional model-airplane builders.
Ideas For Model-Airplane Builders (original article)
Dec 082010
Arup Airplane
This airplane was designed by Dr. C.L. Snyder, a podiatrist from South Bend, Indiana.
Plane With Semicircular Wing Can’t Tailspin (original article)
Early development of tailless aircraft in the United States (Century of Flight)
The flying “Heel Lift” – Arup S2 and S4 flying wings (Youtube)
Ornithopter
James B. Slinn describes how to build a rubber-band-powered ornithopter.
This Model Airplane Flies Like A Bird (original article)
Klemm L20
Baron F. M. Koenig Warthausen describes his trip around the world in a two-cylinder powered Klemm L20. Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean legs of the trip were made by steamer.
My Twin-Cylinder Flight Around The World (original article)
Baron F. M. Koenig Warthausen (Wikipedia)
Klemm (Wikipedia)
Nov 142010
Honeycomb Wing Construction
Hi Sibley describes paper honeycomb wing construction for model airplanes. It seems Hi Sibley was ahead of his time.
Better Wings For Model Planes (original article)
Takie Tabata's Model Airplane
Hi Sibley describes a record-breaking model airplane designed and built by 14-year-old boy Takie Tabata of Pasadena, Claifornia.
This Plane Flew For Forty-One Minutes (original article)
Hixon-Wheaton Model Airplane
Hi Sibley describes a model airplane designed and built by Alexander Hixon and Stannard Wheaton, two student of Pasadena Polytechnic High School .
Make This Tractor Prize-Winning Monoplane (original article)
Christmas "Bullet"
Myron M. Stearns describes the flying wing design and other works of Dr. W. W. Christmas. From the Wikipedia article one gets an impression that Dr. Christmas was somewhat of a confidence guy. Some of his claims were never substantiated and his Bullet design suffered structural failures with those thin strutless wings being the obvious structural weakness.
The Flying Wing (original article)
Christmas Bullet (Wikipedia)
Dr. William Wallace Whitney Christmas (North Carolina Centennial Of Flight)
Bert Hinkler's Avro Avian
This story describes the historic flight by Bert Hinkler in his Avro “Avian” from London to Australia in sixteen days.
Half Around The World In Sixteen Days (original article)
Bert Hinkler (Wikipedia)
Avro Avian (Wikipedia)
Junkers W 33 - Bremen
Captain Herman Koehl (Hermann Köhl) describes the first non-stop fixed-wing aircraft westbound flight over the North Atlantic in a Junkers W 33 plane “Bremen”.
Lessons Of The First Westward Flight (original article)
Junker W33 (Wikipedia)
Hermann Köhl (Wikipedia)
Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld (Wikipedia)
James Fitzmaurice (Wikipedia)
