Harry D
Jun 10, 2007, 12:26 PM
Back in 1957, I built a model called the Dunne Type Tailless from a construction article in Aeromodeller. It was a weird-looking pusher biplane, very loosely based on a full-scale design from the early 1900s. It was one of the sweetest flying models I've ever built, and I had literally hundreds of flights with it until it finally flew away one day.
For the last 50 years, I've had an ongoing passion to build another one but I was never able to find a single reference to the model anywhere. About ten years ago, I was delighted to come across the Aeromodeller issue that had the constuction article, and scanned it for future use. At the time, I did a CAD tracing of the plan but have never been able to find the time to build the model.
Finally, I do have a bit of time and can build a "50th Anniversary" version. But find that although I still have the CAD drawing, my original scan of the plan and article have somehow disappeared as a result of computer upgrades and so on. I'm missing some details such as dihedral, motor downthrust, etc., which were on the original plan but which I didn't include in my drawing.
I was wondering if anyone has a copy of that issue of Aeromodeller (I believe it was March or May 1957) and could scan the article for me. It was just the plan and a single page of text with photo. If anyone can help, I would be eternally grateful. Large file size is not a problem, as my Gmail account listed with RCG can accept attachments up to 20MB.
Many thanks,
Harry
For the last 50 years, I've had an ongoing passion to build another one but I was never able to find a single reference to the model anywhere. About ten years ago, I was delighted to come across the Aeromodeller issue that had the constuction article, and scanned it for future use. At the time, I did a CAD tracing of the plan but have never been able to find the time to build the model.
Finally, I do have a bit of time and can build a "50th Anniversary" version. But find that although I still have the CAD drawing, my original scan of the plan and article have somehow disappeared as a result of computer upgrades and so on. I'm missing some details such as dihedral, motor downthrust, etc., which were on the original plan but which I didn't include in my drawing.
I was wondering if anyone has a copy of that issue of Aeromodeller (I believe it was March or May 1957) and could scan the article for me. It was just the plan and a single page of text with photo. If anyone can help, I would be eternally grateful. Large file size is not a problem, as my Gmail account listed with RCG can accept attachments up to 20MB.
Many thanks,
Harry