Your Sunday treat for sore eyes. The Vlaicu II. Romanian Aurel Vlaicu was having success with his designs, winning competitions and attracting interest from the military. Sadly, he died in a crash as he attempted to be the first to fly over the Carpathian mountains in 1913. #Aviation#AvGeek

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Reading this👇it seems that he developed his ideas via scale models - literally stick-string-and-paper, rubber-band powered macquettes. Bloody incredible….! www.earlyaviators.com/evlaicu2.htm

Definite treat! Really interesting and important plane both historically and for its innovative design features. Someone even made a 1/72 model of it: modelingmadness.com/review/w1/ro...

That’s a NOPE from me. Impressive first-principles effort but I’m a big fan of iterative goals