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e - 17 Jun 2006 00:14 GMT

has the utka, or duck, russian research ac ever been kitted?
that shore is one cool bird.

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Greg - 17 Jun 2006 06:21 GMT

The only one that comes to mind is a Unicraft resin kit.

http://www.unicraftmodels.com/

Unicraft is hard to find. Very limited production. They pop up on eBay
once in a while. But, I've ordered them directly from the manufacturer
without any problem. Other than a 1 to 2 month waiting list..... I've
found them to be completely trustworthy.

BTW. "Utka" means duck in Russian, just as we use "canard", the French
word for duck, to refer to a tail-first design. I'm not sure if the
term "canard" stuck because a duck's wings are relatively far back on
its body in flight or because "canard" also means "joke".

In either case, the Utka, or MiG-8, was a very successful test vehicle
built to explore the canard configuration for a jet propelled design
that was never built. After the flight testing was concluded, the Utka
was used for many years as a MiG company hack.

Greg Reynolds, IPMS

>has the utka, or duck, russian research ac ever been kitted?
>that shore is one cool bird.

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The Old Man - 17 Jun 2006 12:48 GMT

> BTW. "Utka" means duck in Russian, just as we use "canard", the French
> word for duck, to refer to a tail-first design. I'm not sure if the
> term "canard" stuck because a duck's wings are relatively far back on
> its body in flight or because "canard" also means "joke".

I have read once or twice that the name came from Louis Bleriot. His
Ble.25 was an experimental tail-first design to experiment with better
control, and he named it the Canard. Subsiquent tail-first designs were
refered to as "Canard-types".

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Enzo Matrix - 17 Jun 2006 13:00 GMT

> The only one that comes to mind is a Unicraft resin kit.
>
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> that was never built. After the flight testing was concluded, the Utka
> was used for many years as a MiG company hack.

The Soviet Lun-class ekranoplan had the NATO reporting name of "Utka". That
certainly looks cooler than the MiG-8. In fact it looks like a P6M SeaMaster
that doesn't know when to quit...

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e - 17 Jun 2006 15:13 GMT

>The only one that comes to mind is a Unicraft resin kit.
>
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>Greg Reynolds, IPMS

yes, and apparently all the hot shot test pilots would grab
it first to fly around for conferences. i think they're very
cool.

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maiesm72@netscape.com - 18 Jun 2006 00:26 GMT

> >The only one that comes to mind is a Unicraft resin kit.
> >
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> it first to fly around for conferences. i think they're very
> cool.

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