fly_tornado Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 [media=vimeo]32382093[/media] 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinsm Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Ah crap, now you've done it. I have to wipe the drool off the computer screen. What a truly marvellous thing to own, If I could I would have one tomorrow. My bucket list just overflowed. Great to see these replicas flying.!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsor68 Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 I like all their aircraft and the construction used... The Dream is one of my favourites for simplicity... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarly Gnu Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Wonderful, thanks for posting f_t. Tomo needs some of those machine guns on his Solitaire.... BTW those guys must be pretty sad about the lack of small radial engines now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 I like all their aircraft and the construction used...The Dream is one of my favourites for simplicity... Looks like the Mignet Pour de Ciel ("Flying Flea") kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsor68 Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Looks like the Mignet Pour de Ciel ("Flying Flea")kaz I am guessing you have mixed this... .. The Flying Flea With this... ... the Demoiselle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Very good, Windsor! That was exactly what I was thinking about. Wasn't there a Channel crossing in one of those or something very similar? Kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 I just found vids on U tube of both of these of course! Je connu cest la Francais! Kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsor68 Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Lol kaz... I think you are confusing this... with the Demoiselle... Interestingly... regarding the Demoiselle (according to one source) It was designed by Santos Dumont It weight little more than 110kg including pilot It used engines from 20-40 HP over its evolution including a horizontally opposed Santo-Dumont released the design drawings for free It is regarded to have heavily influenced the Bleriot (the English Channel crossing aircraft) design heavily Santos-Dumont is reported to have completed the first X-country flight in this design The June 1910 edition of the Popular Mechanics magazine published drawings of the Demoiselle and affirmed that the Dumont's plane was better than any other that had been built to that date, for those who wish to reach results with the least possible expense and with a minimum of experimenting. So... it really was the first minimum aircraft... and still relevant today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgwilson Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 There was one of these or a Bleriot replica at Wanaka some years ago. It had the radial engine that turned with the prop & cut out ignition system. It flew so slowly it looked like you could run as fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 Wouldnt it be fantastic if a few of us built these kit aircraft and make our own little squadron. We could do a dawn patrol, on the 100th year anniversary of WW1.Somewhere here in Oz.I think the wings come off them easily from memory for trailering. I would build the full Scale Sopwith Pup.That would be nice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarly Gnu Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 Go for it dazza, they are pretty cheap and are supposed to go together easy. Just need to find a reasonable priced engine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilot Pete Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 I'm in the process of building a Nieuport 11/17. I'ts a Graeme Lee design with some Airdrome elements incorperated. Very easy to build as virtually everything is riveted or bolted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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