Tag: weight distribution

• SAAB Tunnen – Part Two – Spacious Swede

  

  Nearly all tricycle-gear planes need some sort of nose weight to prevent them sitting on their tails. In some cases it can be a geometric nightmare trying to find enough space at the front of the fuselage to accommodate that weight. You are asking for trouble if you try to do it with lumps of…

  Dick Stein

  January 20, 2023

  1:72 scale, adhesives, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  balance, SAAB, weight distribution

• Grigorovich IP-1 – Part Two – The Soviet Engine

  

  I might not have been paying attention in the past to the details of aero engineering…but I do now that the kit makers are making much more detailed efforts. For instance, I always built the Airfix and Monogram fighters with radial engines that fit inside cowlings. In many cases they were just engine fronts inside…

  Dick Stein

  January 5, 2023

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

  engines, heating, Soviet design, weight distribution

• 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