So, after a period of “monotonous languor” I’m trying to get some things accomplished, CO2 wise. First thing, after the passing of model designer, author, and columnist Bill Hannan I thought I would build a CO2 powered version of the aircraft he was most associated with ~ the Nieuport 4. I planned on using a Brown MJ-70 or B-100. So, I enlarged the plans of the rubber-powered Peanut plan he drew by 138% to make its span a little over 18 inches. After I got the fuselage sides framed, I started to do some thinking. The original aircraft had a rotary engine, and the plans he drew just had slab sides and no engine detail to tell of. Flummoxed I was.
Then the scales fell from my eyes. This plan was a model, not of the original plane, but of the 36-inch wingspan model kit made by Ideal back in 1913. Ideal also made kits for the Wright Flyer, Curtiss Jenny and the Bleriot XI, all lacking in detail and only basically representative of the original full-size craft.
So I’m going to put the brakes on this for now, in search of a better plan. But I do want to make a Nieuport 4, if only to decorate it with a W C H like the masthead of his column “HANNANS HANGAR" which was the first page I turned to when I got my Model Builder in the mail every month.
If you try to reach me at the e-mail address co2@buztruckindustries.com, I will be changing over by the end of the month to the address co2parts@yahoo.com. Go Daddy has become such an execrable business model I could do better with a “free” e-mail for now. As usual, feel free to contact me with your questions at the new address.
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