1/72 72019 Alliance Waserflug We-271 V-1
Resin Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
Rare. Beautifully cast in high-definition resin with all fine recessed panel lines, cockpit, optional flying boat or landing gear configuration and full decals. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. This amphibious flying boat was produced in 1938 by the German aviation company Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH. The purpose was to test an improved wing design developed originally by the Rohrback firm in Berlin. The aircraft was a twin engine, all-metal transport with a cantilever high wing. Its wheels retracted into wells in its outrigger floats, vertically braced under the engines. Testing began in 1938 but the We 271 first flew as a landplane on June 26, 1939 and as a flying boat two days later. During the this first water flight, a critical design problem became obvious: waves cause by the hull and floats caused a large amount of water to strike the propellers, which disturbed the effective power and greatly shortened the the life of the props. Water deflectors will installed to a workable satisfaction. There is no agreement on the history after that point. One source reports that the We-271 then has between 60 and 70 flights and on May 1 1942 it was flowsn to a testing plant in Travemunde. Another reports that as early as spring of 1940 it was flown to the testing center at Rechlin but the next year it was shot down by a Spitfire and was scrapped later in the war.
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