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Naixoterk
Post subject: Re: FD Scale Aircraft 5Posted: July 9th, 2013, 7:36 am
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Rhade wrote:
Better.

Now you should fix those name fonts and position them right.
Done:

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Post subject: Re: FD Scale Aircraft 5Posted: July 9th, 2013, 11:22 am
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Achtung, East Europe!

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ANBO I, the first completed project of the Lithuanian inter-war engineer, brigadier general (at the time, senior lieutenant) Antanas Gustaitis. After being put in charge of a trainer squadron, he started saving up money for his own plane (probably after seeing various foreign designs and studying the successes and failures of the designs of another Lithuanian, Jurgis Dobkevičius). After getting the green light from the Minister of Aviation, it was built in the winter of 1924. Gustaitis himself tested out the plane, and found out that the plane was stable and easy to control. Afterwards it served in the Lithuanian Air Force effectively until 1930, being displayed in the War Museum of Vytautas the Great since 1935 (it was taken apart and crammed into a warehouse during the Soviet occupation, until being taken out again in 1970). It is the only surviving Lithuanian-built inter-war airplane.

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As time went on, it became apparent that the Albatros B.II airplanes were getting severely obsolete (being built in 1913) and that importing them would be much more expensive than producing them domestically (the only Lithuanian plane still in flying condition was the ANBO I, with all three designs of Dobkevičius crashing, and eventually killing the engineer himself). After a short tenure in an avionics and engineering school in Paris, Gustaitis started work on his second project - a light, parasol wing training aircraft in 1927. While having 100 HP less, the ANBO II managed to outspeed the old Albatros.
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Between 1928 and 1930, the plane trained military pilots, until in 1931, after extensive repairs, it was gifted to the Aviation Club of Lithuania (Lietuvos Aero Klubas), and was used to train civil pilots. LAK used the plane for almost four summers, until in 1934, after testing acrobatic manoeuvres, the plane broke in half and crashed, killing the pilot.

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Post subject: Re: FD Scale Aircraft 5Posted: July 9th, 2013, 12:12 pm
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@Naixoterk
Well done. :)

@Chz
They are excellent (together with completely useful history lesson)! :)
I hope to see complete preview of Lithuanian-built pre-war aircraft. Any chance for it, please? ;)


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Chz
Post subject: Re: FD Scale Aircraft 5Posted: July 9th, 2013, 12:42 pm
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eswube wrote:
@Chz
They are excellent (together with completely useful history lesson)! :)
I hope to see complete preview of Lithuanian-built pre-war aircraft. Any chance for it, please? ;)
That is indeed the plan, although to be fair there's not that many of them (the three DOBI planes and nine ANBO types).


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Post subject: Re: FD Scale Aircraft 5Posted: July 9th, 2013, 2:03 pm
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I know that they weren't too numerous, but it doesn't make it any less great too see them here.


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Post subject: Re: FD Scale Aircraft 5Posted: July 9th, 2013, 2:04 pm
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Excellent work Chz and very interesting histories.

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Post subject: Re: FD Scale Aircraft 5Posted: July 9th, 2013, 4:13 pm
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One question: Is there any tip or tutorial on how to make insignias like squadron insignias and such in FD scale?

Also, how can you draw a roundel under the wings?

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Post subject: Re: FD Scale Aircraft 5Posted: July 9th, 2013, 4:18 pm
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I'm afraid it's "trial and error" method. As for the roundel - try to look on the drawings that have it included.


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Post subject: Re: FD Scale Aircraft 5Posted: July 9th, 2013, 6:07 pm
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This is exellent!

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Naixoterk
Post subject: Re: FD Scale Aircraft 5Posted: July 9th, 2013, 7:12 pm
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I know this one is far from being acceptable because i still lack the skill to properly draw it but here it goes because i'd like to gather some help:

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