Bob's Langley Aerodrome scratch build

[bob martin]

With extreme apologies to Professor Samuel P. Langley, I really wanted a card model of his Aerodrome "A". So, here is my feeble attempt to make one. I used several of FG's model parts to piece it together.The Dumont Airship #6,The Chanute Glider, Bamboo Dick's Monoplane, the Wright Flyer. Some bulsa wood and a bunch of thread...
The thing that amazes me the most is, all the research, development, testing and building a model that actually flew......????? It appears that no consideration at all was given to a landing gear????? Go Figure "Hey it flies!!!! But watch out for the landing..Hee Hee

Well it was fun anyway!!!!! and it sorta looks like the Aerodrome.

[jobeaux]

Just saw this over at Fiddlers Green, well done mate! Very fine work on the rigging.

[Swampfox]

WOW, that is awesome. You did an excellent job on this model.

Have you ever seen the real a/c at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum at the Udvar Hazy annex in Reston?

It's huge and I too have wondered how the heck it flew. Actually the full size one never did if I recall.. It was the scale models of the big one that flew. It was only after Glenn Curtiss modified it that it was able to lift off.....

So, are you going to offer it to Chip to make available to the rest of the card modeling world?

great job,
SFX

[bob martin]

Yes I've seen the one at the museum. Got some pictures of it as well. But not very good ones. Never figures at the time I would ever attempts to build one.

I any event, I sent it to Chip. Not sure if he'll do anything with it.. If anyone has the "Early Flyers" from Fiddlers Green. all the parts to build it come from the models in that set. With the exception of the Dumont airship #6 in the Balloon & airships folder.

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[Thomas Meek]

A very nice model, Bob! And to think that you bashed it up out of existing kits. Very ingenious!
I'm sorry that the full sized Aerodrome snagged in the launching gear and crashed. If it had flown, would the course of aviation have looked any different? Or was the "common" configuration so inately superior as to have been inevitable?

[eatcrow2]

Great job..Love the clean rigging work.

[Swampfox]

I found a couple of images I took of the genuine, original machine that last time I visited the NASM annex in Reston.

It's a very large a/c and almost impossible to get in one shot. Both of these are composites of 3 images each, merged in PS.



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Swampfox

[peter taft]

Exquisite model - very well executed ! Awesome job

[Thomas Meek]

Wow, swampfox! thanks for posting those great pictures of the original.