Giant scale precision aerobatics gliders by Cornia Aeromodelli of Italy
Giulio Cornia of Cornia Aeromodelli is producing a range of beautiful wooden and composite giant scale aerobatics gliders including the Bhyon, Macka and Kobuz models pictured above. His site is a veritable paradise of wooden building techniques and the results are quite impressive to say the least! All of the gliders can be built to fairly low wingloadings and would certainly be capable of VTPR as well as precision aerobatics in the right hands. Very inspiring stuff!
Here is a recent video of his latest design, the Bhyon, flying on the slope:
You can see a build thread about the Bhyon on BaroneRosso: Bhyon G-66-C
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Gulio’s work is amazing!
I think a couple of your shots above show his “Mack”, a scale model of the Yugoslavian aerobat. 3,3m long, but a huge fuz, it’s a big plane with short wings! Should be great for aerobatics, and it has flaps too! I’m THIS close to buying his kit (it’s all wood construction)! See: http://www.corniaaeromodelli.com/MACKA.htm
Chris
That’s right Chris, the two launch photos are both the Macka, and it’s got great lines. All of his planes are tremendously impressive due to their scale, their all wood construction, and the rigorous performance demands placed on them. I’m really quite blown away!! There’s just so much amazing stuff happening all over the place in the world of slope aerobatics.
Indeed Steve!
I suspect Guilo’s work is fairly unknown outside Italy, more’s the pity! I hesitated on pushing the button on the Mack kit only because the instructions are in Italian. I need to find a tame translator..
As I understand it, Max from X-models is very taken with the Byphon, and we’ll hopefully be seeing a fully moulded version on the slopes soon!
Chris
What I’ve found is that there’s a really prevalent “silo mentality” at play in slope soaring… the adherents in each country seem to focus mainly on stuff happening on their local or at most national/language level (sometimes exclusively).
This is not really surprising considering the language difficulties, but with tools like Google Translate and a little gumption (as we say in the US) it’s not so difficult any more.
So that’s where this site comes in! I love doing the research and trying to uncover the cool stuff happening on every continent. There’s so much out there in slope aerobatics, and at last we have a single place which is completely dedicated to bring it all together. I can’t wait to see what the future holds!