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The Kharkov R-10 is a laser cut kit designed by Tom Nallen. His model won the Flying Aces Club WWII Mass Launch at the 2000 Nationals. This is a super light 1:22 scale kit designed to go together quickly and fly great. Pictured below in both the standard green and the winter white schemes. The prototype has a wing area of approximately 80 square inches. Weight including rubber motor, clay ballast, and 8" plastic propeller is 44.4 grams.
The Kharkov R-10 was a low wing Russian light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft designed by the Kharkov Aviation Institute (KhAI). The KhAI developed a whole family of high speed aircraft from transports to bombers designed and assembled by teachers and students under the direction of Iosif Grigorievich Neman. Various modifications of the original KhAI-1 aircraft were made from 1932 through 1938 at which time Neman was imprisoned and the project came to and end. The KhAI-5 was a prototype of the fast photo reconnaissance aircraft. It featured numerous innovations developed for KhAI-1 aircraft, including retractable gear, wing and control surfaces with stressed skin, internal bomb/camera bay, a new type of gunner's turret, and remotely controlled camera capable of making shots at 80 degrees relative to flight direction. The Kharkov R-10 was the production version of KhAI-5.
This free flight rubber powered kit includes a full-size rolled CAD drawn plan, building and flying instructions, laser cut balsa parts and hand-picked balsa strip wood, FAI rubber, TissueCal™ markings, vacuum-molded canopy and turret, 8" E-B propeller, EBM thrust bearing, and Easy Built Lite tissue. To build this model you will need a building board, hobby knife, fine sandpaper, and glue.
Kharkov R-10 (LASER CUT)
22" wingspan
Class: 1/22 Scale flyer
Building Skill / Flying Skill: Easy / Experienced