#quadruplane

[iwannakissasopwithcamel]

Universität Kobra M01 - "The Final-Year Project"

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Voting ended onMay 7, 2024

Role: Scout Served With: University Militias First Flight: 1609 Strengths: Highly Stable, Fast Weaknesses: Low Visibility, Sluggish

Description:

The Kobra series, since it is so well known and well studied, is a common platform for experimental fits and Final Year Projects, the last make-or-break test of the engineering student. The idea of tandem annular wings has rather captured the imagination of the aerodynamics community in the last few years and many students have attempted investigations of the possible benefits.

So many of these aircraft have been built and studied that they are becoming something of a baseline in themselves, and some have received subsequent experimental conversions to create scouts that have little in common with their origins.

The Kobra-series are already known as extremely stable designs, but these tandem wing designs tend to be so stable that they are legitimately hard to fly, wanting to straighten out like an arrow. The generally accepted spin recovery procedure for these aircraft is to let go of the controls.

[crownedstoat]

Naglo D.II Quadruplane W1 by Jim Landon Via Flickr: 8,523-26-134 ... WWI aeroplane model enthusiasts often joke about wanting a plastic kit of this plane. ... No kit exists and no blueprints have turned up (to the best of my knowledge). A Google search hints that it was a German secret project ... and it maybe had a 160 hp Mercedes engine ... and maybe the designer was Eduard Naglo ... and it might have been a modification of a Albatros triplane. For more information see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naglo_D.II ( Thank you 1r3s677gR for the link to wikipedia )