Nieuport Scout (oz3146)

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Nieuport Scout (Nieuport 17C-1). Free flight scale model fighter for .5 - .8 cc engines. From Model Aircraft, February 1958.

Quote: "A mount of the Aces! PMH Lewis's Nieuport Scout. A free-flight model for .5 - .8cc engines.

Firm favourite as a fighting mount with many World War I ace pilots, the Nieuport 17C-I is just as popular 40 years later with modellers.

The plans are for .5 - .8 cc engines and the form or construction ensures a speedily-built and strong model which will last a long time.

Fuselage Take a sheet of medium-grade 1/16 balsa and trace the sides on to it either pricking through the outline or using carbon paper below the plan. Score vertically, level with the cockpit, and cement over the angle after bending the sides to the plan view; 3/32 in sheet is used for the formers F1 to 16 which are cemented in place from F1 to the rear when the sides have set firmly at the sternpost.

One piece of 18G wire is used to form the undercarriage vees which are mounted in place by binding and gluing to 3/16 x 3/16 in cross braces. At the same time, the 18G wire centre-section struts are fitted..."

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