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A build from 5 years ago: Another example of how blind can the establishment be regarding a new , perfectly viable concept: a metal monoplane in 1921, the Golden Era of the Biplane Dinosaurs. How can you not be touched by the old photographs of these chubby, lumbering, stumpy monoplanes making their way through grass airstrips. Interestingly enough, the metal, corrugated skin monoplane formula that this plane embodied was being advanced since early in aviation times by Hugo Junkers, a brilliant man that is more often (and more unfortunately) associated with WWII, obscuring the fact that he despised and rejected the nazis, who ousted him from his own company in the 30s. The basic design configuration of the K-16 (1921) -a two-passenger plane- is a bit reminiscent of the Focke Wulk A16. The FW A16 flew later on (1924) although with three/four passengers. Also following the same formula is the Russian Tupolev Ant-2, of 1924 (two passengers). The K-16 is a very good-looking little feeder airliner that reached many countries and ended up even in Argentina and Uruguay (pity I couldn't find more on the Argentinean one, only a bad photo on the Pavlovcic booklet on local registrations). The little chubby machine is wearing in this case the livery for the 1925 Rundflug. Again -as in many other occasions- my gratitude goes to fellow modelers -among them Matias Hagen and Sönke Schulz- for their help with this project.- 20 replies
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