Pou-Du-Ciel or aka "the Flying Flee
Feb 13, 2010 14:52:08 GMT -4
Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2010 14:52:08 GMT -4
This is a stand off R/C scale air craft of the real thing.
The main wing (forward) is about 5ft x 7" long and 11" wide. This wing pivots so the trailing edge moves up and down to control the pitch of the plane. No elevator is used. No ailerons ether. Tuning left and right is done by the large rudder.
The rear wing (aft) is 3ft x 6" and is fix to the fuselage.
The Fuselage is about 3ft long X 8" high X 5 3/4" wide.
I'm powering this plane with a Tower Hobbies Magnum 30 - 4 stroke engine.
The covering I used is Coverite 21st Century iron on fabric, Red and Silver.
This has to be the most strangest plane that I've ever seen and built as a flying model. The model and as well as the real thing is a slow flier. The real one was design so that any one even with out any flying experience could build this at home and fly it. But it did have a problem. You could not dive or descend to steeply because as most people found out the hard way, The craft wouldn't pull up and out of it. Many crashes and deaths where due to this. The government made the designer stop selling his plans for this. Over the pass years, other air craft designers have rework out the major flaws this plane had and is now and still a fun plane to build and fly as a home built lite air craft.
Now all I have to do is wait for warmer and a good claim day for my test flight and hope it doesn't meet it's demise like the originals did.
Here's a link on you tube of the original and if you do a further search on you tube you can find some modern day versions made with aluminum and 2 setters with enclose cabins.
Link:
before I modified the pilot
The main wing (forward) is about 5ft x 7" long and 11" wide. This wing pivots so the trailing edge moves up and down to control the pitch of the plane. No elevator is used. No ailerons ether. Tuning left and right is done by the large rudder.
The rear wing (aft) is 3ft x 6" and is fix to the fuselage.
The Fuselage is about 3ft long X 8" high X 5 3/4" wide.
I'm powering this plane with a Tower Hobbies Magnum 30 - 4 stroke engine.
The covering I used is Coverite 21st Century iron on fabric, Red and Silver.
This has to be the most strangest plane that I've ever seen and built as a flying model. The model and as well as the real thing is a slow flier. The real one was design so that any one even with out any flying experience could build this at home and fly it. But it did have a problem. You could not dive or descend to steeply because as most people found out the hard way, The craft wouldn't pull up and out of it. Many crashes and deaths where due to this. The government made the designer stop selling his plans for this. Over the pass years, other air craft designers have rework out the major flaws this plane had and is now and still a fun plane to build and fly as a home built lite air craft.
Now all I have to do is wait for warmer and a good claim day for my test flight and hope it doesn't meet it's demise like the originals did.
Here's a link on you tube of the original and if you do a further search on you tube you can find some modern day versions made with aluminum and 2 setters with enclose cabins.
Link:
before I modified the pilot
