wwii

Inspiration: A friend of mine recently reached out with a design challenge/idea. He wanted my design expertise for a project he was finishing up. He needed a target. The Design criteria were as follows: Big enough to target at ~100'-150' away - 50-60" WS Slow Flyer, he wanted enough time to...

The tow hook is hard to see, but it's there.

After launches

28"

History: This Gentle Maneuverable Easy to fly float plane ended up being a quiet workhorse of the fleet for the US and other NAVY. The History of this plane is Terribly interesting and served a number of niche roles. Mainly as a the Battleship Plane of choice. Yes, Battleship! The most...

I really love the Gull-wing style design of the Minimoa which is a German Sailplane. They come in many sizes; 104" 99" 72" 50" 35" and 34". I will base mine on the Minimoa 50 (plans depicted below.) The Göppingen-gö-3 "Minimoa" is a the famous 1930s German sailplane designed be the team of...

Here is my next project: the Messerschmitt P.1092! This WWII fantasy aircraft was designed during the war as some sort of single engine Me 262. There are five different designs of this plane, I am going to make a combination of number 2 and 5. I really like the engine placement, it looks unique...

So, with winter break almost upon me, and with a lengthened design cut off date, I'm going to be adding an additional aircraft to this challenged. It classifies under the fantasy moniker as it was drawn up but never built in any capacity. One of the things I learned with last years challenge, is...

The Me 163 Komet is one of my favorite airplanes of WWII, it held the airspeed record until Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. So the name of the game with this project is speed, and lots of it. WINGSPAN: 32in MOTOR: 1700kv ESC: 30A BATTERY: 1100mAh 6S While my power setup is the most...

The Valkyrie is a massive, Amerika Bomber used by Hydra during WWII in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe). It is armed with 8 parasite-suicide-atomic-bombers. In Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America crashes the plane into the Arctic, freezing himself for the future. The Valkyrie...

Inspiration: During Family Day Trip to Wilmington, NC with my Mother, Step-Father and Sons, we stopped in to U.S.S. North Carolina. a WWII Battleship. Something I had passed EVERY time I went to Wilmington over the years living in NC. As the morning was cloudy and a bit rainy, it was a perfect...

This thread is where I will be documenting my build process of the WWII Vought XF5U "Flying Flapjack" designed by SPONZ and LocalFiend. here is their thread about it :D:):cool::applause: I printed out the plans (and greatly concerned my father about how much ink and paper I was using) today...

Awesome logo artwork by BridgeInspector and AircPirateTomadai Welcome to Team ALLIED FORCES! If you are here, it's probably because you are building a righteous American, English or Soviet Union aircraft (or other Allied power, France, China et al., see below) that never saw action! (See...

I'll be aiming for this Russian oddity: the Kalinin K-12 This Site claims this proof-of-concept pre-WWII was a test for a larger tail-less Bomber. After successful demonstrations of this Bird-feather-painted working concept, the designer was arrested prior the larger version was finished...

Here is a fun podcast interview put on by Stuff You Missed in History Class... I love interviews with people who really know their stuff. WASP of WWII with Dr. Katherine Sharp Landdeck, Part 1The Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII was formed to see if women could fly military aircraft, and...

Blohm & Voss BV-141 (World War II German tactical reconnaissance aircraft) SWAPPABLE! Hello All, I am underway on designing a foam board swappable BV-141. This will be my first design project using Google sketchup and the Flite Test swappable concept, but not my first scratch build. I would...

I think it would be really cool if there were scale trainers. There are two in particular I would really like to see: -Westland Lysander - De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk Keep up the good work!

I took this picture while I was fixing some ethernet tacking in a teacher's room while they are on summer break. Mind you, this is only one half of his room that i got the picture from so there are more model planes to be seen.