FVA-10b "Rheinland" (SP-051) - Kovozávody Prostějov - 1/72

Konrad · September 19, 2022

About the glider:
The FVA-10b "Rheinland" glider was built in 1936 as a project by students of the Aviation Technical Group at the Aachen University of Technology. Only 29 copies were built. The glider was characterized by excellent aerodynamic shapes, a large glazed cabin, a large wing extension and the use of air brakes and a takeoff and landing wheel.

About the copy:
After II World War one "Rheinland" glider was found in Grunow. Rebuilt in the workshop of the Gliding Institute in Biala, it was flown at Zar and performed technical flights there for testing and research. Later, it was assigned to the gliding school in Fordon near Bydgoszcz, where it was flown competitively until 1949. After deletion, it was transferred in 1949 to the warehouses of the Museum of Communication in Gądków, from where, after subsequent changes in storage, it ended up in the collection of the Museum of Aviation and Astronautics in Cracow.

(compiled on the basis of material from samolotypolskie.pl)

About the model:
A 1/72 scale model based on injection kit from the Kovozávody Prostějov KPM 0153. From myself, I added a bit in the interior of the cabin, DFS type airbrakes, reworked the wheel (the kit has some mutant - the wheel in the folded position and the flaps are unknown for what) and.... I lengthened the wings 1mm on each side (the dimension did not hold the scale). I developed the painting and decals based on "Foreign gliders in Poland" published by Stratus. It was supposed to take a week, it took 18 days, but all in all I don't regret it - this is my 10th glider model. The collection is growing