Tag: centre of gravity

• Mirage F.1C – Part Two –

  

  I am not a naturally suspicious person. I do not see conspiracies in every coup, assassination, or Disney movie. I regularly send money to Nigerian princesses. Yet I suspect every tricycle-geared airplane that they build…they are all tail-sitters just waiting for us to have a moment’s lapse of attention. I regularly weigh and balance planes…

  Dick Stein

  August 17, 2021

  1:72 scale, design, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly

  centre of gravity, landing gear, Mirage, weight distribution

• MiG 17 – Part Two – Smarter Than The Average Bear

  

  Look here, Prague. The Russians – crude stumbling peasants that they are…drunken, covered in ice and angst…can make a cockpit tub that fits into the fuselage first time. The tub is a precise moulding and the partitions that hold it in place allow both sides of the fuselage to approximate without gaps. It’s almost as…

  Dick Stein

  July 5, 2021

  1:72 scale, design, Model Airplane, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, subassembly

  centre of gravity, cockpit, MiG, Zvezda

• Republic Thunderflash – Part Two – I Know That Shape…

  

  It’s a codfish. The Republic F-84 fuselage is a codfish – particularly when it is the Recon version with side intakes instead of an open nose. Not that this is a bad thing – fish swim through water well and the Thunderflash swam through the air just fine. If something looks like is should fly,…

  Dick Stein

  April 18, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, German aircraft, Model Airplane, Painting, subassembly

  centre of gravity, recon plane, Republic