Rhoenkaempe (oz12077)

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Rhoenkaempe. German Antique Flying Wing.

Quote: "Hi all, A while ago I bought a set of German antique model plans from which this is one of them. As you will know, the Rhön is the central place from which the development of gliders started in the 1920s. The term 'Kämpe' means something like 'strong, bold fighter' and as this plan dates from the early 1930s (33 to 34 I presume) it should 'educate' young boys in terms of Hitler-Germany.

Nevertheless I think it flies well because the cover boasts: 'Winner of the Rhön-Contest in 1935 and 36'

I added the German building description and a Postscript file (.eps) of the parts that can be cut with a Lasercutter. Every CAD program should be able to open or import it since it is a vector-drawing format. You can even print it with a laserprinter (print it with the Acrobat reader in Poster-Mode along with cutting marks to get the whole drawing, you have to glue the pages together, although), cut out the parts and glue them to cardboard (1 mm or thicker) to get templates for cutting the parts.
I hope you like it!"

Direct submission to Outerzone.

Update 19/04/2020: Added (later) article in German from FMT 6/1994, thanks to Axel_VPF.

Update 29/5/2024: Added (translated) instructions in English, thanks to Buzz.

Quote: "Anyone who is even somewhat beyond the initial reasons for model building will find it without it will also be possible to build this shapely and absolutely flight-safe flying wing model. When building a flying wing, however, you have to be aware that there is much more to it than with the Normal model depends on accuracy. This refers in particular to the wing setback and weighing*). The manual launch with such a model also has to be learned first. The High start, for which this model is particularly suitable, takes place as with the normal model.

Construction of the wing:In order to be able to build the two halves of the wing exactly in line, you have to cover a table with wrapping paper and tears open the two halves of the wings on it exactly according to the drawing. It it is advisable to do this work first, so that there is no break during assembly. Now on 1 mm plywood, the wing ribs 1-18 are transferred exactly by pause and Cut out with scissors. Two pieces of each rib are to be made, which together if necessary, connected by thumbtacks. On these pairs of ribs all openings for the nose spar and the belts of the head and auxiliary spar are now immediately sawn out. The recesses for the main spar are sawn out a bit too tightly, because yes, because the rib does not come at right angles to the spar, make two corresponding oblique cuts with the carvers have to be made. If you don't have a carving knife, you can cut the edges with a File. During this work, the ribs must be treated individually. Relief recesses of the ribs are not necessary.

The main spar 20 consists of upper and lower chords. Pine strip 5x5 mm is used. Too the spar is drawn on a paper template and marked with the planks 23a and 23b Glued. Small wire pins (7 mm) are used for pressing, which are glued again after the sizing can be removed..."

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Parts (eps format) zipfile.

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