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A build from 12 years ago: (The original plane is being restored at the Musée Régional de l'Air - Anger: http://www.avionslegendaires.net/wp-content/uploads/images/reportage/Riout-102T-Alerion-%C3%A0-ailes-battantes.jpg (I did not have this information -or much anything- at the time I made the model.) Dragonflies have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. If you think they were big back then (two to three feet for some species), the real airplane that inspired this model had a wing span of eight meters. Born in France, as you can infer by the baguette-like fuselage, this ornithopter –ornitho/bird pteron/wing- (flapping-wing flying machine) created great expectation –and confusion- but didn’t go too far. Far enough to provide for steady modeling amusing, though. Imitating nature has been a profitable path for science, but not always works. Since the beginning of aviation history a number of designers tweaked around the concept, and in spite of some encouraging little success, true achievement seems so far to have eluded them. The model at a glance: Aeroclub wheels account for most of it (sounds easier this way, doesn’t it?). In the photos you can see the construction progress. To abbreviate this article, regarding mistakes, I would say: think of any, I committed it. I even ended up with a tail sitter, but a trestle was sneaked below the tail. It wouldn’t be out of place in a science-fiction movie, would it? My thanks to master scratch modeler Alain Bourret for the spark that started this construction.
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