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(95,247 posts) Sun Jan 1, 2012, 01:56 AM Jan 2012

For The Year's End, My Friends: Aeroplane In A Bottle.... [View all]

This is my favorite of the models I have done over the past year. It is a Caudron G.VI, scratch-built in 1/72 scale (six feet to the inch). Though a major part of French equipment during 1917, it has fallen into obscurity even among students of the period, and it is only fair to mention it had a reputation as a very difficult machine to fly, being both prone to spin and very hard to pull out of a spin once one was begun.

This particular machine, C5472, was part of Escadrille C575, formed at Port Said in August of 1918, and retained as a mainstay of French air power in the region, based at Beirut, till 1921.

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For The Year's End, My Friends: Aeroplane In A Bottle.... [View all] The Magistrate Jan 2012 OP

I have never seen one of these. BiggJawn Jan 2012 #1

I Expect You Are Right About That, Sir The Magistrate Jan 2012 #3

I don't t remember seeing one at the USAF museum Major Nikon Jan 2012 #7

I Believe, Major, The Smithsonian Has A G.IV The Magistrate Jan 2012 #9

I just checked the web site from the USAF museum Major Nikon Jan 2012 #15

My dear Magistrate! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2012 #2

Thank You, Ma'am The Magistrate Jan 2012 #4

So, where is the bottle? :-) Astounding is inadequate for your art! RushIsRot Jan 2012 #5

Thank You, Sir The Magistrate Jan 2012 #10

Well no fucking wonder! Great model, by the way - nice detail. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #6

It Is Indeed Oddly Proportioned, Sir The Magistrate Jan 2012 #11

I would suspect the horizontal surfaces have more to do with the rolling. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #14

Beautiful work REPUguy Jan 2012 #8

Glad You Like It, Sir The Magistrate Jan 2012 #12

I do like it... REPUguy Jan 2012 #13

Slightly off topic aviation history question... rwsanders Jan 2012 #16