Tag: corrugations

• Junkers D.1 – Part Three – Gerry And The Wrinkles

  

  Sounds like a geriatric pop group, doesn’t it? In this case it is good old Junkers and their good old metal folding mill. They had an idea and they stuck to it, and we are stuck with it. Don’t get me wrong – I understand the principle of the corrugation and applaud it in fences…

  Dick Stein

  September 4, 2024

  1:72 scale, adhesives, camouflage, Colour Schemes, German aircraft, Masking, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly, Ukrainian models

  corrugations, Junkers, subassembly

• Polikarpov I-1 – Part Two – The Corrugated Cat

  

  I think Junkers and Ford have a lot to answer for in what they did to aviation design. The Stuka and the Tri-Motor were certainly successful in themselves, when applied in the right way, but they must have led many others astray – Polikarpov amongst others. The temptation of a monocoque skin in corrugated aluminium…

  Dick Stein

  April 27, 2023

  1:72 scale, design, Model Airplane, Soviet aircraft

  corrugations, Junkers, Polikarpov, Soviet