1913 Etrich Taube 40

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House of Balsa

Date:

2024-01-20

Our first Model Of The Month winner for 2024 is Mark!

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Mark Olarsch

62"

44:

5-6 Lbs

Balsa & oratex

Electric

Taildragger

About 5 weeks.

A lot of laminating!

From Wikipedia: The Taube was very popular prior to the First World War, and it was also used by the air forces of Italy and Austria-Hungary. Even the Royal Naval Air Service operated at least one Taube in 1912. On 1 November 1911, Giulio Gavotti, an Italian aviator, dropped the world's first aerial bomb from his Taube monoplane over the Ain Zara oasis in Libya.[1] Once the war began, it quickly proved inadequate as a warplane and was soon replaced by other designs.