Eurocopter SEC-135 Superzei

[Tophe]

Progress being very slow and uneasy  on my Moskalyev resin model (http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,41388.0.html ), I took the opportunity to build a very easy kit, from Revell, at bargain price (50% off):

[Tophe]

As there are only 14 parts, to be built from 6 year old to adult, my 6-year old son Jacky wanted to build it, and he did, Real World like (as first basis, before Daddy transforms...):

[Tophe]

And here is the final (Daddy's) result, built in minutes.
The Eurocopter SEC-135 is not a helicopter but a high speed aircraft, with tiny wings and Supersonic 9-blade propeller:

[Tophe]

(This is one of the very few airplanes having an anti-torque device, but you understand that a supersonic single propeller produces a big big torque)...

[NARSES2]

Brilliant Tophe. It's great to see kids enjoying the hobby 

[Tophe]

Thanks!

On the view below, you see I had no room (in my shelves) for a rotor, nor even for normal aircraft wings (or fuselage in the other direction)...
You can see also the secret device (grey wheel weight) under the cockpit, helping for balance.

[ericr]

 

[DogfighterZen]

 

[Tophe]

Thanks!
And you know, this is not a classical symmetric plane:
- the antitorque fan is pushing on one side;
- the little wings are oblical, because (I am a bad modeller and) this is countering torque also.