What you see here is a Blue Sky Models, Tom Niebuhr "Wow" kit that I built last winter. This is a beautifully done kit, a laser-cut re-make of the original "Wow" by Consolidated.
My construction was pretty much per the plans, except I had some ideas to add a canopy and landing gear to make it a bit more, uh, "realistic".
The canopy is just a Sig 5" bubble jobbie, molded in and painted. The main landing gear fits between the back of the kit firewall, and a duplicate doubler that I made up. There needed to be two tailwheels because of the elevator, so I made two extra vertical fins with tailwheels. Believe it or not, you can actually do wheel landings and take offs if the grass short enough!
This whole project was started because I wanted to build a flying wing with a German WWII scheme. I was just about ready to scratchbuild one when Tom released his version. Perfect! I copied the "hi-vis" scheme from the FW190's that used to orbit and defend the ME262's when they were taking off.
Power is an O.S..25 LA-S with a Master Airscrew 9-6 and a 2 ounce clunk tank. I'm flying it on 57' x .015" lines and the thing is pretty fast, and one heck of a lot of fun. I can't imagine the "Old Timers" flying these things with a Fox .35, it had to be kinda crazy...
Topic: A "Wow" that might wow you... (Read 1976 times)
