M-15 (oz11813)

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MOVO M-15. Free flight power model. Wingspan 2350 mm.

Quote: "Here attached the plan for Movo M-15. Not very clear, but very historical [note plan has now been cleaned up].

The boy that hold the plane [see more pics 003] is a very young Jaures Garofali, the father, founder and owner of Supertigre engines factory well renowned all over the world for their records. Behind him Eng. Valerio Ciampolini the designer of this plane, later famous for aeronautical engineering and inventor.

The plane here appears to be engined with a Brown JR, later re-engined with Osam G-9. Osam was the first name of Supertigre Co.

The model shows two nacelles under the wings with no mentioned function. In the plan label it’s indicated the model total weight and additional weight (700 grams) that probably was charged in the nacelles for payload contest. Very unusual considering the great fuselage volume to load. Never seen any other similar solution on Italian models. The model won in 1937 a duration contest with no fuel limit, flying for more than 30 minutes. Considering it doesn’t look a thermic floater I presume it flew always under power. Probably the additional fuel was loaded in the nacelles in order to avoid CG variation in flight.

The plan appears a little faded and should be re-inked, please note the slotted stringers on fuselage corners to create a T spar, this model was described as a composite construction."

Direct submission to Outerzone.

Note the advert scan [more pics 005] is from the 1937 MOVO catalogue.

Note this plan has been split into 2 sheets, down the centre line. I was trying to keep as much detail as possible during the cleanup, so the finished plan has come out at a very large pixel filesize being at 400 dpi, and being 78 inches wide. Have spilt this into 2 sheets just to make it easier to open and to read. If you need a one page version (at lower res), then see the supplement file. Steve.

Supplementary file notes

Alternate plan (one page).

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