FLYER I

It’s a cold December morning. Nothing pointed out that  7 December 1903 would be marked permanently in history, especially in the aviation history. Orville and Wilbur Wright set the wing on the katapult starter. Orville took the pilot’s place, took a quick look on the machine. Gave signs to the mechanics to turn the propeller. The engine didn’t start emidietly, probably because of the cold, but soon after it worked evenly. The pilot increased the rotation of the propellers, gave signs to his brother, who activated the mechanism. The Flyer began to Speed-up and it uncertainly detached from the end of the rail. The pilot with uncertain and nervous moves tried to maintain the machine on its proper course. With much luck he managed to do so. After some time he landem and happily stepped out of this machine.
The first flight lasted 12 seconds. It flew over 39m, before landing. It was a Real flight, in comparison with others which managed to bounce up and down from the ground, flying only a couple of metres.
The Wright brothers flew the more Times in Flyer 1 in 1903 from which the longest flight lasted 59 seconds. The longest of all flights lasted 5 minutes and 4 s, it equalled 4424,75m and it took place on 9 November 1904.
 Flyer 1 was a biplane, with an elevartor in front, flexible navigating wings and a double rudder in the back. It didn’t have a undercarriage and landing skids were used for landing. A four-cylinder engine, made by the Wright brothers powered two propellers, fastened between wings by a transmission chain. The start was held on wooden rails forming a kind of slope.

TECHNICAL DATA

Length….6,43 m

Span……12,29m

Lifting surfach….47,4m

Engine Power…..12 KM

THE MODELS CONSTRUCTION

General comments:

Because of the untypical build of this plane, this model isn’t suitable for people who have just started modeling. I don’t recommend simplificating the wings skeleton by using fewer ribs, because the wings will become very lim pand prone to deformation. During the construction of the model touch-up the edges with proper colours. After gluing it is possibile to paint the wings with matt, colourless varnish. But all of the wooden elements with half mat tor shining varnish. The stretches make with non stretchable string, which will stiffen and stretchen the construction. The length of all the patterns is situated in a table. Pieces marked with a star glue to a cardboard with thickness of 0,5mm and pieces marked with two stars glue to a cardboard with thickness of 1mm.

WINGS

We begin the build of the model untypically- from the wings. All of the ribs glue to a 0,5mm cardboard, the girder to a 1mm cardboard. Glue the wings as in drawing 1. Glue the pattern to give a proper shape of the wings as in drawing 2. Glue pattern I and II on a 2mm cardboard and glue it to the basis. Fasten the skeleton of the wings to the pattern, so the nose of the wings would be situated on pattern I and the girder on pattern II. Sip the girder with acryl-cyamide glue in purpose of hardening the construction and strengthening the shape. Glue over the wing’s skeleton a thatch and for full drying leave on the pattern. Now glue the girders. Elements 15a glue to a 0,5mm cardboard and then glue over it pieces from 15. The angel strut S1 glue to the strut and wind around it a grey string as in drawing 3. After full dryness of the flakes, start with assembling the wings. Do as in drawing 4. I suggest that At this stage it’s suitable to wind around the wings a rope like in drawing 4.

THE BODY

We now start making the body. It consists of elements from 16 to 29. All elements need to be glued to a specific cardboard and glued to wooden elements. To glue elements of the body we use drawing 5 made in scale 1:1. After finishing the bodies sides, glue them to each other with the help of elements 23, 24, 25. To piece 25 glue a guide roll (piece 25 b, c, d) as in the perspective drawing. Glue stringers 26 and 27 as well as crossbar 28.

Caution! Springer 27 glue to piece 16 only after fixing tail plane.

THE STABILIZOR

Pieces 30, 31, 32 glue as in drawing 6. It’s possibile to make a movable stabilizor but then the stabilizor and the flying controls must be fixed movably on axles S4 and S5. The tail plane make with elements 33, 34 and the stabilizor girder make with elements 35, 36 as in drawing 7. Join the control cables with element 39. The pull make as in the comprehensive drawing.

CONTROL ELEMENTS

The pilot’s spot consists of the movable controller 37, where are the pilot’s hips (during flight the pilot layed on a flake) , an unmovable support for feet 38, girders 39 and a roll 40. All elements glue as in drawing 8.

ENGINE AND EQUIPMENT

The elements of the engine- pieces 41 glue as in drawing 9. The cooler (pieces 42) and the fuel tank (pieces 43) glue as in drawing 10. The imitation of the fuel gallery and the conduit joining the cooler with the engine should be done in own range: the fuel gallery diameter 0,5- 0,6mm, the conduit to the cooler diameter 2mm.

PROPELLERS AND THE TRANSFER DRIVE

From elements 44 make a propeller shaft as in drawing 11. From elements make the transfering drive as in drawing 12. The propellers make from elements 46. Pieces 46a roll, next glue to the inside of the propellers.

Caution!The propellers turn the opposite way.

WINDING

The puls make with a non-stretchable string in black or grey colours. It’s best to make them while constructing the model and using the assembly drawings.