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):
Nose section of the fuselage Tail section of the fuselage with Engine
nacelles
vertical stabilizer
From early on other modellers
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 horizontal stabilizer are provided by Manfred Köster.
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 pages 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