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  2. List of scale model sizes - Wikipedia

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    Used by some model aircraft. 1:220: 1.385 mm: Model railways (Z) Same as Z gauge. 1:200: 0.06 in: 1.524 mm: Architecture. Ship models. Die-cast aircraft. A scale used for high-end model aircraft and very detailed paper and plastic model ships. 9 mm figure scale. Many airlines distribute models in this scale for free as a means of advertising.

  3. Rail transport modelling - Wikipedia

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    A Japanese H0e scale model railroad One of the smallest (Z scale, 1:220) placed on the buffer bar of one of the larger (live steam, 1:8) model locomotives HO scale (1:87) model of a North American center cab switcher shown with a pencil for size Z scale (1:220) scene of a 2-6-0 steam locomotive being turned. A scratch-built Russell snow plow is ...

  4. Model aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 scale display model Group of students with their wooden model airplanes in Sonta, Serbia, 1936. A model aircraft is a physical model of an existing or imagined aircraft, and is built typically for display, research, or amusement. Model aircraft are divided into two basic groups: flying and non-flying.

  5. Tumblewing - Wikipedia

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    Tumbling wings generate lift by alternately flying and stalling as the angle of incidence changes with the spinning motion (see magnus effect and flettner rotor). Its mode of flight is more akin to confetti than traditional fixed-wing aircraft; however, several model aircraft, such as flettner airplanes, have been built with tumbling wings for ...

  6. Wing configuration - Wikipedia

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    A fixed-wing aircraft may have more than one wing plane, stacked one above another: Biplane: two wing planes of similar size, stacked one above the other. The biplane is inherently lighter and stronger than a monoplane and was the most common configuration until the 1930s. The very first Wright Flyer I was a biplane.

  7. List of rail transport modelling scale standards - Wikipedia

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    NMRA standard S-1.2 covers the popular model railway scales and S-1.3 defines scales with deep flanges for model railways with very sharp curves or other garden railway specific design features. In certain NMRA scales an alternative designation is sometimes used corresponding the length of one prototype foot in scale either in millimetres or in ...

  8. Wright Flyer - Wikipedia

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    The Wrights built the aircraft in 1903 using spruce for straight members of the airframe (such as wing spars) and ash wood for curved components (wing ribs). [7] The wings were designed with a 1-in-20 camber. The fabric for the wing was 100% cotton muslin called "Pride of the West", a type used for women's underwear.

  9. Rib (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    The wings of kites, [1] hang gliders, [2] paragliders, [3] powered kites, [4] powered hang gliders, ultralights, windmills [5] are aircraft that have versions that use ribs to form the wing shape. For full size and flying model aircraft wing structures that are usually made of wood, ribs can either be in one piece (forming the airfoil at that ...