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MODELLING REPORT
Left: Armand Giraud’s Planeur Magnard
suffers an unfortunate launch
Above: As vintage as you can get Otto
Lillienthal
Right: Plenty of Fauvel’s were on offer!
Author’s near 3rd scale Minimoa, based on the Von Arx version in the Wasserkuppe museum
less than three Fauvel flying wings in
attendance, all of which flew very well.
Event main organiser Vincent Besançon
had brought along his exquisite Frankfort
Cinema, the fuselage of which is
constructed from silver-soldered steel
tube. The pilot’s arms and legs are connected
to the rudder and elevator servos
for that extra in-flight realism. There
were many flyers from across both the
Swiss and German borders, and from the
latter, Ewe Gewalt, once known for his
range of glass ship kits, was flying his
lovely Sperber Junior to great effect. The
fairly strong wind proved an obstacle to
the very early gliders; you don’t get
much more vintage than something connected
to the name Lillienthal, but Otto
claimed a headache and stayed earthbound
on this occasion, whilst the challenging
Planeur Magnard might have been
advised to do the same as the wind trickily
forced itself under the foreplane and
Erwan Plu’s enormous Waco troop carrier
Has anyone seen Pegasus bridge
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