Building remotely controlled
airliner modelplanes since 1971 I specialized on a 1/16 scale series of modern
jetliners. All planes were built in the same way by using fibreglass and foam
cores sheeted with balsa. Wings, centre fuselage and tailplane are easy to
build with foam/balsa but for the parts more difficult to build I preferred to
make moulds so that I could use fibreglass techniques.
Those fibreglass parts are (as illustrated by
DC-10 / MD-11):
Tail section of the fuselage with vertical stabilizer
From early on other
modelbuilders were interested in building these airliner models. With the
fibreglass parts supplied by me and a small drawing they were able to build
their own models. Foam cores of centre fuselage, wings and tailplane are
available from Manfred Köster.
For USA/Canada foam cores are supplied by TDL
Model Systems. Retractable landing gears for these airliners are produced
by Hawe-Modelltechnik.
Of course building and flying
of this kind of model aircraft requires a well-experienced pilot.
All models were designed to
use glow engines with propellers but many of them can also be equipped with
ducted fans (electric or glow engine) or turbines. Well known are the
modelplanes of Peter Michel who
was first in using turbines on my designs.
During the last 30 years a
large number of 1/16th scale airliners has been built not only by me but also
by many other modellers. The following sites show some of these planes. For the
quality of the pics please keep in mind that I had to scan photographs aged up
to 30 years.
Airbus: A300 A310 A320 A330 A340
Ilyushin: IL-62
McDonnell
Douglas: DC-8 DC-9 DC-10 MD-80 MD-11
Sud
Aviation: Caravelle
Tupolev: 154
e-Mail: info@rauch-airliner.com
Airliner-related links: Carsten
Scharf