Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
FEATURES
- One piece construction with scale fuselage and tail shapes
- Top and bottom wing alignment is built into design
- Scale dihedral, includes in wing aileron servos
- Scale fuselage built from formers and stringers
- Front of the fuselage is balsa box, the rear is built up with top and bottom formers, stringers
- Built up cowl
- Scale number of ribs and subribs
- 1/32" plywood trailing edges included
- Carbon tube leading edges and 1/8" diameter carbon rod spars in scale location
- Under cambered airfoil
- Dummy bell crank mechanically operated by in wing servos (Optoinal Feature)
- Dummy motor with electric motor mount
From
WikiPedia:
The Nieuport 24 introduced a new fuselage of improved aerodynamic
form, rounded wingtips, and a tail unit incorporating a small fixed fin and a
curved rudder. The tailskid was sprung internally and had a neater appearance
than that on earlier Nieuports. A 130 hp Le Rhône rotary engine was fitted.
There
were initial structural problems with the new tail, and most production aircraft
of the type were of the Nieuport 24bis model, which retained the fuselage and
wings of the 24, but reverted to the Nieuport 17 type tailplane, tailskid and
rectangular balanced rudder. The new tail was finally standardised on the Nieuport
27.
A batch of Nieuport 24bis were built in England for the Royal Naval Air
Service.
The standard armament of the Nieuport 17 (a synchronised Vickers in
French service - a Lewis gun on a Foster mounting on the top wing in British service)
was retained to save weight and retain a good performance, although many 24s were
used as advanced trainers and normally flown without guns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuport_24