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Bleriot XI 1909

 


Specifications:  
Wingspan: 1602 mm 63.2"
Length: 1366 mm 53.9"
Wing surface: 52 dm² 806 sq in
Wing loading: 61 g/dm² 19 oz/ft²
Weight: 3200 g 7 lbs
Engine: .40 - .60 ci (6.5 - 10 cc) 2-stroke
  .60 - .80 ci (10 - 13 cc) 4-stroke
Radio: Min. 4-channel with 4 servos


The Model
This is a reasonable big airplane, but at the same time small enough to transport, easy to assemble at the airfield and above all, quite forgiving to fly. The model can be converted to the "Channel crosser", but this model is the somewhat later and impoved version. The variations of the Bleriot XI are numerous and your choice can be any one of the depicted aircrafts.
The model comes with the landing gear attached, and it remains only to screw the stabilizer in place and attach the and the rudder, control wires to the rudder and elevator horns. The wings are pushed into
the fuselage in holes located on the sides and the wing supporting wires attached with the quick link
turmbuckles. It may be necessary to adjust the tension of the wires.

The Aeroplane
Louis Bleriot was the first aviator in 1909 successfully crossed the English Channel. The aeroplane was his model XI adapted for the flight, with an extra fuel tank mounted aft of the cockpit and the tail gear locked and braced in fixed position. The engine was an Anzani 3-cylinder "fan-type", aircooled and rated at 28 hp. The plane was slightly underpowered and the flight in the early morning hours was executed sometimes only a few feet above the wet surface.
The aeroplane became very popular all over Europe and was used by flying schools for basic training.
More powerful engines were introduced and at the time of the outbreak of the hostilities 1914 one
model was equipped with a Gnome Monosoupape 50 hp rotary engine. The centre of thrust-line was then moved up to the centre of the fire wall. The tail gear this was sometimes simplified to two crossed bows of bent rattan fastened to the rear fuselage. The elevator was first fitted as the outer sections of the stabilizer, but on later models as a separate stabilizer and elevator along the rear edge of the former. The planform was also altered.
The wings had fixed front spar and the rear spars attached with a joint to the fuselage. The wings were rigged with 2,5 ° dihedral measured from the wing root. Wing warping was executed via a "double cloche" the wires from the upper "cloche" were led through pulleys in the lover wire pylon out to the rear spar and the under side of the wing. The pilot was seated in a comfortable chair in the open cockpit frame and he had on his left side a throttle regulator and a magneto switch.

 

K&W models 1:5 scale:

Austria-Hungary
Phönix D-III

Finland
Thulin D

France
Morane Saulnier L
Morane Saulnier H
Bleriot XI
Nieuport 17 C-1
Antoinette VII
SPAD XIII
Voisin Bi-plane
Breguet CU-1 RNF

Germany
Albatros C-1
Focke Wulf FW44
Fokker D-V
Fokker D-VII
Fokker E-III
Junkers CL-1
Pfalz E-I
Pfalz E-III

Great Britain
Avro 504 K
Blackburn Mono D
Bristol F2B
R.A.F. SE5a
Sopwith Tri-plane
R.A.F. BE2a
Vickers Vimy

Italy
Macchi M7
Nieuport 17

Japan
K5Y2 Willow (Float)
K5Y1 Willow

Sweden
Focke Wulf FW44
Macchi M7
Phönix D-III
Sk1 CFM Albatros 120
Thulin K
Ö1 Tummelisa

USA
Standard J-1
Wright Flyer
Thomas Morse
Ryan NYP
AIRCO DH4B
Douglas World Cruiser
Curtis JN-4 Jenny
Stearman PT17

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