Hi,

I was wondering how a Flitzer with a Radial would look like...... so I built one........the new star in the sky...

I have heard that Gary was interested in a Flitzer like that. He also would like to build his own 6 cylinder radial engine. This model engine that I made may not look like what he had in mind but I hope this gives your imagination a boost. So what do you think?

This is the same model as before but the firewall forward is different. I made the firewall forward interchangeable when I built the flat four engine, with this other engine in mind.

So here it is. Just wear goggles before making engine sound behind the radial engine, it helps......I have tried...

(Yes these are all digital manipulated images made by the little boy, Robert.)

Hi again,

In the process of building the new 6 cylinder radial it was easy to create an intermediate 3 cylinder "Anzani" look-a-like engine in the same manner as the other 3-cylinder Vedenyev engine discusses earlier.

So here are some more images.

Robert,

You have totally and for evermore excelled yourself with the fabulous series of Goblins and engine configurations flying over the Californian landscape. The images are so redolent of raw power and joi de vivre, of growling radial noise, the whiff of Castrol R, shrieking wires, comradeship, and the sense of period. Where were you when Howard Hughes was making Hells Angels? Hollywood film and model making needs you!

I salute your skill, dedication, and unerring eye when it comes to detail, realism, and total authenticity with regard to the spirit of the Goblin and its time frame.

With my warmest congratulations. Let's see what Gary says!

Thanks Lynn,

That was nice to hear.

If I would be working with the filming of Hells Angels I would not let the real airplanes crash that for sure. I think it was some 80 different airplanes in the movie, however I do not think everyone crashed, but just one to many nice planes were wasted in the filming. Like most aviation films of the day.

Maybe you act in the next aviation movie (no crashed planes I promise). Here is a "film star card" from the time...

Hi Robert,

Many thanks! I think this may be my visiting card from now on!

You may recall that the biggest aeroplane to crash in the making of Hells Angels was the twin-engined Sikorsky S29 biplane airliner, which was painted to look like a Gotha bomber. The pilots were spinning it after a dogfight scene, and found they could not recover. There was a guy in the rear fuselage with a drum of 'lamp black', throwing shovelfulls of the powder out through the door, to create the effect of the machine spinning down on fire.

The unfortunate shoveller didn't hear the urgent cries to abandon the aircraft, and when the others took to their parachutes, he continued at his post, shovelling out lamp black until it struck the ground and exploded.

Unfortunately, the aerial film unit had turned off their cameras before he hit the ground, so his supreme sacrifice was not recorded on film.

Now to start the full size Supergoblin, nicht's wahr?

Best regards,

Hi Lynn,

You are most welcomed. I have a higher resolution on the image if you need. That goes for the other images as well if some one wants them. They could be printed out in up to 20x30cm or 8'x12' with good results, but the images are around 2MB each so ask for them if you want.

Here is a Flitzer Doppeldoppeldecker nicknamed "der Grosskobold" or as the Englishmen would have called it, "the Super Goblin". One of Germany's secret light attack bomber. It was spoken about as a fast and nimble little bomber. However it was to late for any manufacturing of the airplane so it was never to be taken into service before the war ended (WW1). This is the only picture of the Flitzer Doppeldoppeldecker know to exist. Somebody may know where to find this strange and dangerous aircraft...................(an other completely inaccurate story from the Hollywood area...).

So you think I should give up my little toy airplane (from the great German toy manufacturer) and grow up and build a real aeroplane?! OK, let's go for it. However it will be a single seated...

The never too serious Robert