Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Prototype: Scott Burnidge
FEATURES
- One piece construction with scale fuselage and tail shapes
- Top and bottom wing alignment is built into design
- Scale dihedral, includes in wing aileron servos
- Scale fuselage built from formers and stringers
- Front of the fuselage is balsa box, the rear is built up with top and bottom formers, stringers
- Built up cowl
- Scale number of ribs and subribs
- 1/32" plywood trailing edges
- Carbon tube leading edges and 1/8" diameter carbon rod spars in scale location
- Under cambered airfoil
- Dummy bell crank mechanically operated by in wing servos (Optional feature)
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Dummy motor with electric motor mount
From
WikiPedia:
The Nieuport 27's design closely followed the early form
of the 24, including its semi-rounded rear fuselage and rounded wingtips and ailerons.
The structural problems with the redesigned, rounded tail surfaces of the 24,
which had resulted in the use of a Nieuport 17 type tail in the 24bis., were by
now overcome, so that the new version was able to standardise on the new tail.
By now most Nieuport fighters were actually used as advanced trainers, and the
130 hp Le Rhône Rotary engine of the 24bis. was often replaced by a 110
or 120 hp version.
The handful of operational Nieuport 27s were armed either
with a synchronized, fuselage-mounted Vickers machine gun (in French service)
or a Lewis Gun mounted on a Foster mounting on the top wing (in British service).
Two guns were occasionally fitted, but this had a severe effect on performance,
which was at best little better than that of earlier models.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuport_27