Model aeroplanes The building of model monoplanes, biplanes, etc., together with a chapter on building a model airship

Why does an aeroplane fly? The question is worthy of close examination. There is one common enemy to aeroplanes—the force of gravity. Were it not for the existence of this force...

With a view to illustrating some of the models described in this book complete, some drawings are given of the more successful designs which have come into prominence during the...

In no other portion of a model aeroplane has standardisation become more marked than in the design and construction of the fuselage or main frame, both with regard to general de...

One of the most important units of an aeroplane, whether full-size or model, is the screw, since excellence of design with regard to the other portions of the machine are render...

Great diversity of practice exists with regard to the construction of model air-screws, some aero-modellists favouring small diameter with long pitch, others long diameter and s...

There is little difference of opinion regarding the construction of the planes of a model aeroplane, and the methods of making can be classified under three headings—cane, wood,...

The accompanying illustrations show as simple a type of model aeroplane as it is well possible to make, excluding the now obsolete single-stick hand-launched 1—1—P1. It is thus...

According to the type formula, the machine illustrated on p. 63 is of the 1-2-p2 type, which signifies that it has two superposed main supporting surfaces and twin screws, and t...

To a model aeroplane enthusiast a winder is an enormous acquisition. The converted egg-beater type of winder, so much in evidence, leaves much to be desired, the chief fault bei...

The difficulty of carrying a fairly large model to a convenient flying ground prevents many would-be makers taking a practical interest in model flying. The necessity of overcom...

Some of the competitions arranged by the Kite and Model Aeroplane Association have been for duration models of a minimum weight of 1 lb., capable of rising from the ground under...

The present machine is capable of making a flight of about sixty seconds after rising from the water, which it does after travelling from 8 ft. to 10 ft. under normal conditions...

Signs are not wanting that compressed air as a motive power for model aeroplanes will become equally as popular as the twisted skein of rubber, which has practically held the fi...

The model aeroplane illustrated by Fig. 148 has been designed to suit the compressed-air plant fully illustrated and described in the preceding chapter. It is from the results o...

=Calculations in Designing a Plant for a Model Aeroplane.=—The correct method to adopt in designing a model is to build the machine exclusive of the motor, weigh it, and design...

=Stability.=—The principles underlying the design of a successful flying model aeroplane are almost, if not quite, as complex as those involved in the planning of full-size mach...

One of the difficulties that beset the juvenile kite-flyer is the inability to get the kite to rise from the ground unless there is a fairly good wind blowing. Even then the ser...

It has not for obvious reasons been possible, in the design here presented, to rigidly adhere to the lines of the prototype, as in the adaptation of the design to rubber-driven...