From nine years ago, another pioneer machine.
I saw a sketch of the the Flick-Reining Apteroid (apteron means literally no-wing in the language of Pericles) in a yellowed-paged book titled “Airplanes of the World”, by Dawydoff and Rolfe. Years went by until a post on the Aerodrome forum shed more light on the matter. Not that a 3 view appeared, mind you, but just a blurry photograph and patent papers, for which nevertheless I am immensely grateful.
Using those abundant references I concocted a 3 view and finally decided to build the model.
Now, it may be “Apteroid” –wingless- by name, but believe me, that didn’t sound right when I had to make the varied flying surfaces, which were double-surfaced as per patent description. Of course this model involved some speculation, but that’s the only way to deal with these very arcane machines that surely deserve a place in history (and the shelf).