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Scale / Horten XIV building thread
« on: August 26, 2009, 21:08:09 PM »
Hi out there,
as promised, I start a little picture thread about my newest Horten Nurflügel (flying-wing) project.
The Horten XIV (14) glider was designed by Reimar Horten in the beginning of 1945. His Idea was to build a clubglider based on the HIV high-performance wing. I made a little research about the real plane. There is omly a little sketch in the book "Nurflügel" (R. Horten/ P.F. Selinger) and some drawings of the center sektion at the Nurflügel-Archiv at Mr. Uden.
The Scale will be 1:4. This makes a span of 4 m with about 5 kg. The aerodynamic of the model is designed by Uwe H. and Andrès C. at www.ig-horten.de.
So here we are. First of all I made a drawing of the wing:
Afterwards I imported the profiles to CAD and made the drawings of the ribbs. Well, this is a longer story. Especially the unusual Center-section has it's geometric problems...
That's, how it looks on my computer:
After some weeks of CAD, it's time for the milling maschine to get busy.
Here is the result:
Regards
Lothar
as promised, I start a little picture thread about my newest Horten Nurflügel (flying-wing) project.
The Horten XIV (14) glider was designed by Reimar Horten in the beginning of 1945. His Idea was to build a clubglider based on the HIV high-performance wing. I made a little research about the real plane. There is omly a little sketch in the book "Nurflügel" (R. Horten/ P.F. Selinger) and some drawings of the center sektion at the Nurflügel-Archiv at Mr. Uden.
The Scale will be 1:4. This makes a span of 4 m with about 5 kg. The aerodynamic of the model is designed by Uwe H. and Andrès C. at www.ig-horten.de.
So here we are. First of all I made a drawing of the wing:
Afterwards I imported the profiles to CAD and made the drawings of the ribbs. Well, this is a longer story. Especially the unusual Center-section has it's geometric problems...
That's, how it looks on my computer:
After some weeks of CAD, it's time for the milling maschine to get busy.
Here is the result:
Regards
Lothar