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ORIGINAL: Mode One I know I'm being "Fussy" here; but, this was just too good to pass up! A "four-winged triplane"? Abu, wouldn't it have been more correct to have called this a four-winged biplane? No, that's not right! Hows about a bi-winged Biplane? Close. We certainly couldn't have called it a four-winged quadruplane, that would have been 16 wings! I think there was a name for an airplane that had four wings. The name simply escapes me at this time. I do know that the photo doesn't show a "four-winged triplane", however.
Actually, it IS called a "quadraplane." But that just seemed too ridiculous -- particularly when they were obviously just copying the Sopwith Triplane and trying to "up the ante" with four wings. Sort of like those ads for disposable razors where they try to convince you that now that THEIR razor has FOUR blades, you'll never go back to one with ONLY three!
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BTW, on days that I'm bummed out on building (and yes I have those days) I usually go off in a totally new direction. I've also thought about trying my hand at a peanut scale size freeflight model.
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It's the hobby I get tired of. However, I've been building balsa airplanes for around 47 years and when I get bord with it, I do find other things to do.
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not sure what that one that Abu is really called, but i looked through all my research materials and all i could find was this one which is called the ..."Naglo D.II Vierdecker" and it looks quite different, but goes under the "quadraplane" description.
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So mode are you into trains? I got a n N scale layout upstairs with a 135' main line and I dont use DCC for control. It's a double dodgbone style layout and I only have one city/commercial/indistrial area with the rest rural???? Doc
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Found it:
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Supermarine P.B.31E NighthawkThe P.B.31E Night Hawk, the first project of the Pemberton-Billing operation after it became Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd., was a prototype anti-Zeppelin fighter with a crew of three to five and an intended endurance of 9 to 18 hours. It was first flown in February 1917 with Clifford Prodger at the controls.
It had six-bay swept quadriplane wings, the fuselage filled the gap between the second and third wings, and a biplane tailplane with twin fins and rudders. The cockpit was enclosed and heated.
For armament, it had a trainable nose-mounted searchlight, a 2-pounder (40mm) Davis gun mounted above the top wing with 20 shells, and two .303-inch Lewis guns. Power for the searchlight was provided by an independant petrol engine-driven generator set made by ABC- possibly the first instance of a recognisable airborne APU.
It was advertised as being able to reach 75 mph, but the prototype only managed 60 mph at 6500 ft and took an hour to climb to 10,000 ft, totally inadequate for intercepting Zeppelins. Given the Anzani's reputation for unreliability and overheating, it is unlikely that the airplane would have delivered the advertised endurance either.
[edit] Specifications (Prototype) Data from The British Fighter since 1912[1]
General characteristics Crew: Five (2 pilots, 3 gunners) Length: 37 ft (11.4 m) Wingspan: 60 ft (18.5 m) Height: 17 ft 8.5 in (5.5 m) Wing area: 962 ft² (89.4 m²) Empty weight: 3,677 lb (1,672 kg) Loaded weight: 6,146 lb (2,795 kg) Powerplant: 2× Anzani 9 cylinder radial engine with four blade propellers, 100 hp (75 kW) each
Performance Maximum speed: 65 knots (75 mph, 121 km/h) Time to 10,000 ft (3,050 m): 60 min Endurance: 9 - 18 hours
Armament One 2 pdr Davis gun and one Lewis gun above upper wing, and one Lewis gun in the nose
[edit] References ^ Mason, Francis K (1992). The British Fighter since 1912. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-082-7.
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< Message edited by FokkerAce -- 3/10/2008 12:41:50 AM >
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Doc, yes, when I took my hyatus from R/C, that was what I was doing. My layout is a three loop around with staging below and one city. The country is all mountains with rivers and bridges over some deep canyons. I'm transition era in HO scale and have Digitrax DCC for control. Once the system was in place the decoders only cost $17.00 each. Model Railroading is doing the same thing R/C is. The majority of people in it are no longer modelers, they only buy. So, instead of paying $4-$8.00 for a kit and adding details, spending some wonderful relaxing time building a model, they just pay $20-$30.00 for a pre-build RTR car.
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Mine's been fallow for four years, airplanes are what really make the world turn. I figured out that WWI is where my heart beats, sooooo here I go. cmon mode build! This is what we really dig, ... Doc
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