Arrow Active (oz15330)
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Arrow Active. Free flight scale model biplane, for rubber power. Wingspan 24 in.
Planfile includes full building instructions and flying notes.
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Quote: "Hi Steve, Here is a 24 in span Arrow Active biplane, designed by DG Brown for the Model Shop Newcastle. I don't know the year of the plan but looking at the style of the drawing, I'd guess it's from some time in the late thirties. Although I've scanned it at 600 dpi, the original photocopy wasn't great. Likewise, the parts, which appear to have been photocopied directly from the original balsa sheets. All the best,"
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Printwood.
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(oz15330)
Arrow Active
by DG Brown
from Keelbild, Model Shop Newcastle
1936
24in span
Scale Rubber F/F Biplane
clean :)
all formers complete :)
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Submitted: 17/05/2024
Filesize: 1765KB
Format: • PDFbitmap
Credit*: DilwynMadog
Downloads: 378
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Wiki has a nice history article along with a colo(u)r picture of a restored aircraft.Thomas Solinski - 04/06/2024
There were only two Arrow Actives built, this plan depicts the Mk.I, the Mk.II survives and still flies with the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden in Bedfordshire.
The Mk.I caught fire in flight while being flown by Alex Henshaw, later a famous record breaking and test pilot for Vickers Supermarine. He escaped the burning Arrow Active by parachute and narrowly avoided being struck by it as it circled around him during his descent.
Two aircraft flown by Henshaw are still extant and airworthy at the Shuttleworth Collection, the Percival Mew Gull air racer, in which he made his record breaking flight from the U.K. to Capetown and back, and the Hawker Tomtit, which he used as his personal runabout and hack when he was test flying Spitfires at Castle Bromwich during the Second World War.
Dilwyn Madog - 11/09/2024
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