PLANS ONLY - NOT A KIT

RUMPLER TAUBE

by Ted Enticknap

A 34" wingspan scale free-flight model for 1/2A engines

The Taube was very popular prior to the First World War, and it was also used by the air forces of Italy and Austri-Hungary. Even the Royal Naval Air Service operated at least one Taube in 1912. On 1 November 1911, Giulio Gavotti, an Italian aviator, dropped the world's first aerial bomb from his Taube monoplane over the Ain Zara oasis in Libya. Once the war began, it quickly proved inadequate as a warplane and was soon replaced by other designs.

Featured in October 1951 Air Trails