Subjects for card models are as diverse as aircraft, buildings, trains, vehicles and even animals, and the tools are simple: hobby knife, a cutting surface, and a little white glue. As your experience grows you will find yourself trying new techniques, and building more complex and ambitious projects. Perhaps you will even try designing your own models.
For school projects or just plain fun, there are a huge number of FREE papermodels on the internet. Because of the use of sharp cutting tools, and the challenge of folding, positioning and gluing parts correctly, why not go and ask your parents for a little help with your first couple projects. Curtiss Robin. Flower Shop. The Mud Cottage. Ehricke's Space Lifeboat. Heinkel He Salamander. Grumman F Tomcat. English Water Mill. Wonky little Pub. Tillamook Rock Lighthouse. F Raptor.
PA Piper Tri-Pacer. Classic Ercoupe. Cart and Shed. Cape Blanco Light House. Historical Blackburn Bellanca Citabria. Heceta Head Light House. Village Boot Shop. The Seversky P Sikorsky S Amphibious Flying Boat. SBD Douglas Dauntless. Covered Bridge. Pioneer Days Covered Wagon. Voisin- Canard Freres Hydro Seaplane. Henry Mignet's Flying Flea. Slingsby T, Tandem Tutor.
Ford Model "T" Tin Lizzy. Village Church and Meeting Hall. Kaproni Bulgarski Fazan. McDonnell Douglas A4 Skyhawk. Lowe Civil War Balloon. Methodist Church. New England Commercial Ice House. Historical Whale Boat. Schweizer Sailplane. Northleach Prison, Gloucester, England.
Rider R-4 Firecracker. English Post Office. Red Tailed Hawk. Hawker Hunter Jet Fighter. Grumman Goose Amphibious G Aircraft.
Point Wilson Lighthouse. Gothic Church. Famous Banbury Cake Shop. The Pietenpol Air Camper. Bronte Parsonage. Boston Harbor Lighthouse. North American X Manned Rocket. Airco De Havilland DH. Hawker Typhoon. Aircraft Hanger for Private Field. Rockport's Motif 1 Red Fishing Shack. Well done, and good publicity for FG models as well. Makes me quite happy to see, since I know it can't be an overly complicated model as such. Your workmanship on that comparatively simple model really makes it stand out to an effect greater than the model.
Great looking SE5a! That is what I like about FG models High praise indeed, thank you guys. This was the first FG model I ever bought, and I was so pleased with how it turned out that I then went and ordered the entire aircraft collection on DVD! Due to my inexperience at the time I didn't do much with the prop or attempt any edge colouring, but I still think it looks pretty good. What I like most about FG models is that they go together relatively quickly yet build into very pleasing, nay impressive, representations of the real thing.
As for the new Piper Cub, it looks superb and of course it's free! Great model. Hi Chris. Army Air Forces separated from the Army in , becoming its own branch of service, the U.
Along with the standard glider flown by Otto Lilienthal of Germany, the Chanute glider, designed by Chanute but also incorporating the ideas of his young employee Herring with regard to automatic stability, was the most influential of all flying machines built before the Wright brothers began designing aircraft. Gas balloons were used in the American Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars to very limited extent , and throughout the 19th century by hobbyists and show performers such as the Blanchards.
Curiously, after flying to an altitude of over m on his first flight, Professor Charles never flew again. The ship was named the "Goon" Chester named his ships from characters in the "Popeye" comic strip and it packed a six cylinder Menasco Buccaneer engine as the powerplant. The lines were sleek and every portion of the plane was completely streamlined.
Doctor William Christmas believed that struts were unnecessary and that an aeroplane's wings should be free to flap like a bird's. Unfortunately, on the first flight of his 'Bullet' fighter, also known as the Christmas Strutless Biplane and by other names, the wings did exactly that and then came adrift. The pilot was killed instantly. A second Bullet did exactly the same thing a few months later. One of the first things you'd notice about this slim biplane was its lack of propeller.
Designed by year-old Romanian Henri Coanda, the airplane made its official debut at the October Salon de l'Aeronautique in Paris, where it wowed the crowd. That's not only because the biplane had a complete wooden cover, and its struts and bracing wires were kept to a bare minimum, but also because its tractor-mounted engine drove a centrifugal compressor through a series of gears.
The glider was assembled by Goldfinch and Best and 12 assistants known as "apostles", in the lower attic above the chapel. Consolidated's P represented a bold step forward for the Air Corps. Here was the first American fighter ordered into production with many of the features that had for years been just beyond the grasp of success. Standard equipment on the P were fully retractable landing gear, enclosed heated cockpit for the pilot at any rate , exhaust- driven turbo-supercharger, and a fully cantilever wing.
The Pogo had delta wings and three-bladed contra-rotating propellers powered by a 5, hp Allison YTA turboprop engine. It only flew as a prototype, and never entered production, but it is still the only seaplane to exceed the speed of sound. With 66 hours of flight time, this was one of the shortest bombers to exist, and had the distinction of be runner up to the B for the first all jet heavy bomber. A sour engine, exposed wheel wells and an open cockpit restricted performance to just While recuperating from-very serious injuries that included a broken back, Crosby designed a much more refined racer, the CR The Cruise MIssile is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile.
Introduced by General Dynamics in the s, it was designed as a medium- to long-range, low-altitude missile that could even be launched from a submerged submarine. The launcher was a separate model earlier but is now included with the Cruise Missile. The JN-2, deficient in performance, particularly climbing, was an equal-span biplane with ailerons controlled by a shoulder yoke located in the aft cockpit. The improved JN-3 incorporated unequal spans with ailerons only on the upper wings, controlled by a wheel.
The Curtiss Robin, introduced in , was a high wing monoplane with a 90 hp V8 OX-5 8-cylinder engine. It was later fitted with the more powerful Challenger engine, which developed between and hp. Resulting, like the Vultee XP and Northrop XP, from a competition for 'unconventional' fighter designs, the XP was built with a pusher prop, highly swept wings and a canard foreplane. Not surprisingly for such an unusual configuration, the XP suffered stability problems, and all flying surfaces were enlarged at one time or another in an attempt to cure these.
This model represents a slightly more challenging build than previous models. The scale is The excellent tutorial that accompanies it shows the model being built in micro scale. The Curtiss Kittyhawk P was an American single-engine, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground attack aircraft that first flew in It was used by the air forces of 28 nations, including those of most Allied powers during World War II, and remained in front line service until the end of the war.
This Hypersonic Technology Vehicle from the American Falcon Project has been designed by Vlad to demostrate the awesome power of flying so fast that your hair would burn off. Ed Heinemann led a team of designers who considered a development with a 1, horsepower Wright Cyclone powerplant. A year earlier, both the U. Navy and Marine Corps had placed orders for the new dive bombers, designated the SBD-1 and SBD-2 the latter had increased fuel capacity and different armament.
Perfect 'A' magnet school project!! Degen actually used his wings to provide him just enough lift to rise with the help of a balloon. In this manner, he went balloon-jumping in large leaps on a parade ground, to the delight of onlookers, but only the most gullible would take that for flying. With its high-lift wing, short takeoff and landing STOL capability and rugged metal fuselage, the Beaver was tailor-made for bush flying; it's able to take off and land from just about anywhere while carrying heavy loads.
The de Havilland DH. Designed by the de Havilland company in late as a faster and more comfortable successor to the DH. It shared many common features with the larger aircraft including its tapered wings, streamlined fairings and the Gipsy Six engine, but it demonstrated none of the operational vices of the larger aircraft and went on to become perhaps the most successful British-built commercial passenger aircraft of the s.
The DeHavilland DH. Developed and manufactured by DeHavilland, the Comet first flew in and was a revolutionary in aeronautical design. The DeHavilland Comet had an extremely aerodynamically clean design with its four DeHavilland Ghost turbojet engines placed into the wings, a light-noise pressurized cabin, and huge windows.
The Comet was extremely comfortable and showed promise of being a major success shortly after launching. It was a light-weight monoplane with a wire-braced wing mounted atop an open-framework fuselage built around a reinforced bamboo boom.
The planes' use by the French Air Force then Aviation Militaire was very brief, due to their frailty and lack of weapons. In February , an experiment was made to install a machine gun in the nose of the craft, but it was not followed up.
Designed as a racing aircraft, the Deperdussin Monocoque was a slim, single-seated plane with a sleek aerodynamic build that was the first of a large range of similar designs that would come in later years. The design is noted for winning the Gordon Bennett Trophy in There had been no declaration of war, and they achieved surprise.
Using the new shaped charges, they disabled the fort's guns and trapped the garrison inside. The assault cost only 21 casualties.
Supersonic WWII piloted rocket ship designed by Nazis and completed in secret by the Russians after they captured it and hauled it home. Thanks to Vlad, you can now build one in your secret workshop too! Although it crashed, the contribution of the Nipper to the development of flight was recognised by Hollywood, however, as a non-flying replica was built for comedian Tony Hancock's plane in the s comedy film Those magnificent men in their flying machines and called the 'Little Tiddler'.
The most unconventional piston engine fighter developed in Germany during the war, the Arrow had two engines driving 'push-pull' air screws. Two seater night-fighter versions were being produced alongside the single-seat fighter-bomber.
Tons of extra effort has been spent on the BW files so you can create new airline versions easily and beautifully. This American torpedo bomber is remembered mostly for a tragic reason - the Douglas TBD Devastator fell in flames at Midway, where an entire squadron was lost in a matter of minutes. The Devastator was perfectly acceptable aircraft by prewar standards, but it came on the scene when change was occurring rapidly. By the time men and machines were pitted in combat in the Pacific, the TBD was no longer an effective warplane.
It was notable for being the first carrier-launched aircraft to hold the world's absolute speed record. Flies like a trooper catapulted by an elastic band. The primary purpose of the X-3 was to test the aerodynamics that were to be incorporated in the design of a radical new interceptor conceived by Lockheed in , at a time when the lessons of the Korean War were bringing about profound changes in the design of combat aircraft.
That aircraft, the F Starfighter, eventually flew in February , only 11 months after a contract had been placed for two XF prototypes.
The Douglas D Skyrocket was a rocket and jet-powered supersonic research aircraft. On 20 November , shortly before the 50th anniversary of powered flight, Scott Crossfield piloted the Skyrocket to Mach 2, or more than 1, mph the first time an aircraft had exceeded twice the speed of sound. Comes with an adorable Rocket Man cutout. The Douglas D Skystreak was a turbojet powered airplane and had unswept wings.
It's object was to study transonic and supersonic flight capabilities. Also known as the Crimson Test Tube.. The bis, also known as Oiseau de proie French for "bird of prey" , was a pioneer-era canard biplane designed and built by Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont. On October 23, , in Paris, France, it performed the first officially witnessed European unaided takeoff and flight by a heavier-than-air aircraft. Santos-Dumont was awarded the Deutsch prize as well as the prize money of 50, francs.
In a charitable gesture, he gave half the prize to he crew and then donated the other half to the poor of Paris. A conventional shoulder-wing design with conventional empennage, no component of the BJ-1 exceeds 18 ft 5. The DuTemple Flying Machine with the first powered flight and the first retractable landing gear, helped to push the exploration of the Earth to higher heights.
Keith Rider had at least one more racer up his sleeve as in the R-6 appeared. This was all plywood covered and perhaps departed in portions from the Rider design but the heritage could not be mistaken. It was powered by a six cylinder Menasco Buccaneer engine and, as the rest of the Rider racers, had a retractable landing gear.
Its steam engine was an unusually light weight design and drove a propeller at the front of the aircraft. It was designed to be the safest fixed-wing aircraft that aerospace engineering could provide at the time, and the type still enjoys a very faithful following today. The North American Super Sabre F was a product of the pioneering days a jet fighter development in the fifties.
The Super Sabre was the first western fighter capable of breaking the sound barrier during level flight. It was the first of the Century Fighter series. Entering service in , its main purpose was to intercept invading Soviet bomber fleets. The McDonnell Douglas now Boeing F Eagle is a twin-engine, all-weather tactical fighter designed to gain and maintain air superiority in aerial combat.
It is one of the most recognized fighters of the modern day. Weapons include a M61 Vulcan cannon and various missiles mounted on up to 11 hardpoints.
Since U. Northrop had requested the "F" designation. There have been a number of theories put forth to explain this omission, but none have ever been confirmed.
It is primarily an air superiority fighter, but has multiple capabilities that include ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence roles. This one sported the new fangled coke bottle waist that allowed it to fairly easily fly past MACH 1.
This model can be used as a hitch hiker under the B FG model. It was powered by a Westinghouse JWE-7 turbojet, of 3, lb. The fighter was intended to return to the parent aircraft and dock with a trapeze, by means of a retracting hook. The A Thunderbolt II is an American single-seat, twin-engine, straight-wing jet aircraft developed by Fairchild-Republic for the United States Air Force to provide close air support CAS of ground forces by attacking tanks, armored vehicles, and other ground targets with a limited air interdiction capability.
It is the first U. Air Force aircraft designed exclusively for close air support. A hot air ballon from Fiddlers Green. These instructions show you how to make one from household items, trash bags, etc. In Germany, Anton Flettner developed a series of helicopters using counter-rotating intermeshing rotors. In , the two seat Fl Kolibri "Humming Bird" became the first helicopter anywhere to enter operational military service. It was the most advanced helicopter developed during WWII.
Thanks to Aaron for distilling this pretty complex piece of machinery into a relatively easy cardmodel. Mignet had failed to be accepted as a military pilot and decided to build his own plane. Between and he built prototypes in Paris and tested them in a large field northeast of the city.
He successfully flew the first successful model, HM, in September 10, One of the many experiments undertaken in World War II to increase battlefield mobility by the provision of rotary wings for men and vehicles, the Hafner Rotabuggy was intended as a stepping-stone to a flying Valentine tank.
At the time, Frost was particularly interested in jet engine design and ways to improve the efficiency of the compressor without sacrificing the simplicity of the turbine engine. This led him to design a new type of engine layout with the flame cans lying directly outside the outer rim of the centrifugal compressor. A lasting tribute to Luigi Stipa and his quest for aeronautical knowledge. Designed by Aaron Murphy, cartooned by Derek Carter, and bashed into the dreaded FG format by Dave and Chip, this simple little model came in as one of the more expensive models to design and publish on the internet.
It'll have a 1, pound payload and a flying range of miles. Yeah right!! When pigs fly.. The FG Flying Humvee is easy to build and with moving parts like a proper transformer. If there would have been a powerful enough tow plane it may have been successful. The development of large gliders and transports put an end to the Antonov A KT.
Kit includes both version of the T tank. Heinrich Focke had come to the conclusion that the inadequacies and limited serviceability of autogyros could only be eliminated by a real helicopter.
A free-flying model, built in , propelled by a small two-stroke engine brought the promise of success. This Dr-1 is just one model as opposed to the entire collection of THIS is the plane in which he died on that fateful April 29, Fiddlersgreen offers models of MOST.
The Dr-I saw widespread service in the spring of It became renowned as the aircraft in which Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, gained his last 20 victories.
This collection has four of his planes. The other Fokker-Dr1 offer is for a single model in two scales, also one of the Red Barons'. One model shown in thumbnail , two scales plus BW. Display this fabulous Fokker Scourge hanging as a mobile from the ceiling. In service, the D.
VII quickly proved itself superior to existing Allied fighters. This legendary aircraft is also available as just ONE model if you're so inclined. Dubbed the Flying Razor by Allied pilots, it had the distinction of scoring the last aerial victory of the war.
After several fatal accidents due to wing failures, the aircraft was modified and redesignated Fokker D. The E. III was basically an E. II fitted with larger, newly designed wings and it was a far greater success than the E.
It retained the same hp Oberursel U. I engine but had a larger The T-2 was an airliner designed in the Netherlands in the early s, but built to the extent of only two examples, both for the United States Army Air Service. It was the largest high-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailskid undercarriage Fokker had built. Two different versions. Only two were built. The Ford Trimotor was primarily designed as a passenger aircraft, capable of flying up to 10 passengers.
One of the unique features of the Ford Trimotor was the fact that the seats could be removed to expand the cargo hauling capabilities. It was used by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. It partially replaced the Messerschmitt Bf in Over 20, were manufactured, including around 6, fighter-bomber models. The first British Jet aircraft powered by the new fangled Whittle W1 centrifugal engine. You can reach well over 20, feet quite quickly, and with the arctic heater Piper installs, you can gently roast yourself at the same time.
You can land in almost as short a distance as needed for takeoff, but not quite, so that you can be sure of getting out of any field you've gotten into. The technique is to approach with full flaps, a little power, and the airspeed way off the bottom of the dial. At the moment of touchdown, cut the power, raise the flaps, and stand on the brakes.
With practice you can achieve a most impressively sudden arrival. We once paced out what a real expert could achieve in the way of a short landing run. Against a reasonable breeze it was thirty-seven yards. But have a care, for the Super Cub is heavier than the old J-3, and it can stall on you. The load you could carry for the horsepower has always been one of the Cub's notable qualities. The early ones with only 37 hp would take pounds disposable load; with 50 hp, pounds; with 65 hp, pounds.
The big Super Cub will carry pounds. Nor is it very critical, for you can get away with fair overloads, and the allowable center of gravity range is generous. In consequence, all the Cub series have always been favorites for any kind of flying job, be it at work, air shows, endurance flights, or mountain landings.
Truly, a universal airplane. Let the late Mr. Piper have the last word in this story, about his old partner C. He went away and designed the Taylorcraft. It wasn't really anything like the Cub: It had side by-side seats and a very different airfoil. Taylor moved to Alliance, Ohio, and set up the Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation to build his new bird. At first it had a hp Continental, and a cruising speed of less than 90 mph, but soon the Taylorcraft moved up to 65 hp-Lycoming, Franklin, or Continental, according to the customer's choice, though by far the largest number chose the Continental.
The owner of one Taylorcraft acquired his bird, a B Continental-powered model, as a wreck from someone's chicken coop. He then rebuilt it himself.
Introducing us to his machine, he said, "I think it's an excellent airplane. It's efficient. You can cruise nicely at 2, rpm, where the engine's real smooth, and you're making 90 to 95 mph. And we've flown some five hundred hours in it.
It's a little faster, perhaps a little more maneuverable than a J It's a nice cross-country airplane. I've only got one wing tank in mine, but I've heard they used to have four, as well as a fuselage tank. We climbed aboard and it's cozy inside. Don't take anyone with sharp elbows into a T'craft. The airplane has enormous round control wheels, like something out of a 's cloth bomber.
How cockpit styles have changed! The airplane's owner has painted a yellow mark on his wheels to show where top dead center lies. And he shows us the trim lever, under his seat, and makes us open the door to peer back and see the trim tab, a separate vane mounted underneath the stabilizer. Fired up, we bounce and hop across the stones to the takeoff point, which at Old Rhinebeck in this wind is at one side of a big pit.
You hurtle down one side of the pit, and stagger up the other, waiting for the right combination of bump and gust to get airborne. In the T'craft this moment seems to come very smartly, for the takeoff is quite short. We climb out indicating 1, fpm, which means the VSI is lying in its teeth, bu t even so, the climb-out is right smart. At 2, feet we level off. It's a real wintry day, and while the cabin heat is good around the feet there's a Force Eight gale coming in the door onto your face.
Visibility is better than expected, except in a turn. Stability in pitch is good, but the T'craft lacks positive stability in yaw. Sideslip and let go, and she stays side slipping, with only a slow return to straight flight. You must keep on the rudder all the time, or the ball in the slip indicator will be all over the place.
The ailerons on this airplane are very big and sensitive, and quite uncompensated, which doesn't help. Before starting the approach, we are told that the airplane tends to float, due to the curved undersurface of its wing. The best glide is 60 to 65; the sink rate goes up at lower speeds, and if you slow it up too soon you can find yourself sinking onto the ground with rather an untidy thump.
We find we need to keep pushing on the rudder to keep things straight on final. But there's perfectly adequate control on the roll-out. Taylorcraft went on building the hp Model B for many years. During World War II it produced a tandem trainer that looked very much like the old Cub, and also considerable numbers of the L-2B-called Grasshopper, as was the military Cub-in which an observer sat behind the pilot. Taylor designed a four-seater Model 15 with a hp Franklin, but what with a fire in the plant and overproduction of the hp model, Taylorcraft was soon bankrupt again.
The corporation was revived in and lingered on into the mid fifties, experimenting with molded fiberglass coverings and models with up to hp. Taylor, though he designed splendid airplanes, was never the world's best businessman, whereas perhaps his old partner W. Piper was. Float Terminology. About the Piper Cub The model that's still considered the generic general aviation airplane by many non-pilots still has an enormous attraction to pilots, as well.
In fact, it's so popular, it has taken on classic status and assumed a price tag out of all proportion to its talents. Created in the early '30s, the Cub evolved to the 65 hp J-3 that would carry two at 65 knots cruise. The Super Cub came along in the '50s, with engines that eventually stabilized at hp and performance that stabilized just this side of unbelievable.
Flightex was the most widely used brand name. The finish on the original Cubs was cellulose nitrate dope. Postwar Cubs were finished with cellulose butyrate dope. The last Super Cubs were covered with Ceconite Dacron cloth.
Seats of inch width were mounted in tandem, and a large split-type door opened most of the right side; the airplane could be and often was flown with the right side open. Windshield and windows were of Pyralin, and the left-side window was slideable for controlled ventilation.
The sparse upholstery was whipcord; a small baggage shelf behind the rear seat had a pound capacity. The nine-gallon or optional gallon fuel tank was mounted just behind the firewall and utilized a simple, bobber-type fuel gauge that projected through the filler cap.
The wing was framed with solid spruce spars early models or dural spars late models and stamped aluminum ribs. The leading edges, back to the front spar, were covered with dural metal sheet, and the completed framework was fabric-covered. A simple tripod landing gear of inch tread was snubbed with Rusco rubber shock rings, and the 7. There were no wheel brakes on the early Cubs, except as extra-cost items.
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