Scotto
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The Sparrowhawk has the honor of being the only manned plane to be carried inside a zeppelin. (That I know of). The USS Akron and USS Macon zeppelins that carried them were among the biggest flying machines ever made. It is an absolutely fascinating history and marvel of engineering. There is a good history of them and much more here if you're interested.
Anyway, I built this for buildruary, and it turned out pretty good so I've taken the time to make real plans. I'm planning on building another hopefully cleaner plane from these plans. I'm sure there will be things to change. One thing I know is missing is the main center section of the top wing spar. The first one works but wasn't very pretty. This is about 1/8 scale at 38 inch wingspan. The design is kind of a combination of a card paper Model and a baby blender with a lot of trial and error and a little help from the balsa plans on outerzone.
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Anyway, I built this for buildruary, and it turned out pretty good so I've taken the time to make real plans. I'm planning on building another hopefully cleaner plane from these plans. I'm sure there will be things to change. One thing I know is missing is the main center section of the top wing spar. The first one works but wasn't very pretty. This is about 1/8 scale at 38 inch wingspan. The design is kind of a combination of a card paper Model and a baby blender with a lot of trial and error and a little help from the balsa plans on outerzone.
Version 1
Version 3
Resource page
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