Welcome to ScaleBirds!
ScaleBirds is busy perfecting the Hawk Series design for the Beta Builders with the desired changes per our flight testing of the prototype. First kits are shipping soon!
ABOUT THE LITEFIGHTER:
ABOUT VERNER RADIALS:
Who We Are
Our ScaleBirds mission is to bring new and unique aviation products to the market. Our primary focus is Replica, Retro, and Radial.
ScaleBirds is comprised of a small team from southeastern CT. Our experience is in art, engineering, design, shipbuilding, robotics, manufacturing, and of course: aircraft. We have been using all of our skills - and developing new ones - in order to deliver something new to the world of flying that still feels very old.
The team in our first in-person meeting of the pandemic, December 2020
Our Homebuilt CNC Router cutting center section spar webs.
Collecting flight test data from the Go-Pro
What We're Doing
Since coming up with the concept in 2011 our goal has been to develop a core design for modular scaled WWII fighters. Many years were spent researching, experimenting, exploring, engineering, designing, building mock ups, going to airshows and meeting with people in the industry, before finally narrowing down to a specific path.
In 2016 we partnered with Verner Motor in the Czech Republic to act as a U.S. dealer and maintenance source for their expanding line of light aircraft radial engines. Since then we have sold and delivered several dozen Verner radial engines in the US, while providing support to many homebuilders on their path to installing a real radial on their projects. This positions us to offer direct sales and support for the radially-inclined replicas we plan to offer, in addition to those which are already out there.
We've completed flight testing our first aircraft prototype - a 55% scale P-36 Hawk - and are busy making design modifications for our first production run of what we call the LiteFighters series. We intend to sell the first generation of LiteFighters as a kit that can be completed either as a P-36 or a P-40 single seat sport planes, designed to be economical and fun.
We have also done design work, and built parts for, a larger 2-seat aircraft: a 63% F6F Hellcat, which will be completed as the first example of what we call the SportFighters series.
In addition to the replicas we are designing, our eye for detail has lead us to designing many parts and sub-systems that could find homes in other aircraft. We plan to offer a small catalog of common components that we produce for the general aviation market, and perhaps beyond.
Stay tuned to see what we come up with by following our Briefing Room (blog).