Potez 58′ slats
The Potez 58 was equipped with fixed slats on the leading edge of the wing. These are small fixed airfoils designed to prevent airflow at high angles of attack and…
Realization of a scale model landing gear: The Potez 58, episode 2/2
The second part of the video describing the construction of a scale landing gear on an 1/6.6 Potez 58 aircraft. In this second episode, you will see the inner legs,…
The Potez 58 landing gear: Final assembly
In this last step, I will show you the method used to assemble my landing gear. To get started, here is a picture with the equipment I will need. As…
Realization of a scale model landing gear: The Potez 58, episode 1/2
Video describing the construction of a model landing gear on a Potez 58 airplane at scale 1/6.6. In this first episode, you will see the realization of the damped leg,…
Potez 58’s landing gear : Part 4: Leg scale details.
What I described earlier in the articles was the general structure of the landing gear and the damped leg. The next step is to "dress" the inner legs and add…
The Potez 58’s landing gear: 2nd and 3rd part, the connecting piece and the inner legs
Part 2: The connecting piece between the fuselage and the moving leg Once the damped leg was prepared, I started work on the connecting piece between the fuselage and the…
The Potez 58’s landing gear: 1st part, the shock absorbing landing gear leg
Today I am starting a series of articles describing the construction of the Potez 58 landing gear. You can see on the picture of the full-size plane below, that it…
RC scale model Potez 58 airplane; Installation of a removable tank accessible from the front
Ce tuto pour expliquer l'installation, en passant par le contre couple avant, d'un réservoir sur une maquette RC (le Potez 58), et en rendant l'installation démontable pour les maintenances futures.…
Details on my 1/6.6 Potez 58; door covering and glazing
In this video, I show you how I made the windows and the doors on my Potez 58 RC of 1m71, scale 1/6.6. The Potez 58 was a touring and…
How to do the Finishing work on a wooden fuselage
A new tutorial on the technique I use to finish a wooden fuselage. This step occurs after construction and before painting. I will illustrate it here from the fuselage of…