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1913 Etrich Taube 40
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House of Balsa
Date:
Jan 20, 2024
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.
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