Hillson Bi-Mono in 1/48th

[Dave T]

Attached main landing gear.
Shaped a tail wheel out of a piece of aluminium.
Attached exhaust pipes, made from 1/16th-inch diameter aluminium tubing.
Did a lot of spot filling.

[lastvautour]

Your Hillson B-Mono is fantastic.

Lou

[Boomerang]

Coming along nicely Dave.

Gordon

[Dave T]

Thanks. I have been painting and that includes the roundels which are still undergoing "rounding" until they look okay.

Next will be fabricating a prop and the upper wing.

[lastvautour]

Fantastic Dave.

Lou

[Boomerang]

Looks great Dave. Well done!.

Gordon

[Dave T]

Here is a look at the oddly-shaped "slip wing".

[lastvautour]

That wing looks like an afterthought. On the other hand, you did a fantastic job.

Lou

[Dave T]

Here is a time-lapse of the slip wing in action.

[lastvautour]

I would imagine a bit of negative G would have been beneficial. Hopefully, formation flying was not the order of the day.

Lou

[Gearup]

Very nice model of an aircraft concept that I never thought would exist. Can you imagine trying to pitch the idea and test it out today? The process to modify a coffee cup holder is near impossible today🤪. Great job to find those archived inflight photos.

[Dave T]

An article from a 1944 edition of Aeroplane magazine said the flight test was held up because they had a little "pilot trouble", but finally Mr.
P.H. Richmond came along, and the first release took place July 16, 1941.

It also mentioned that the plane only lost a couple of hundred feet in altitude after the wing release.

[lastvautour]

Any further development?

Lou

[Dave T]

I finished painting all the markings and made a pait of wing struts. I failed a couple of times carving the prop. Will try again.

[lastvautour]

I hope to include it in the 2023 yearbook.

Lou