Curtiss HS-2L

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Curtiss HS-2L G-CAAC ‘La Vigilance’ of Laurentide Air Service, Canada’s first bush aeroplane and the only surviving HS-2L, rebuilt by and displayed at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa: a single-engined biplane flying boat with a wooden single-step hull and wide flared sponsons, a Liberty 12 pusher engine mounted between the wings, three-bay wings with king-posts above the upper-wing overhangs, wing-tip floats and a horn-balanced rudder: silver overall, ‘LAURENTIDE AIR SERVICE’ in black serif capitals on both sides of the bow, ‘G-CAAC’ on the hull sides, a black ‘G’ on the rudder and white company sign boards on the king-posts, as photographed at Ottawa (no HS-2L is preserved in a UK museum; shape from period three-view drawings checked against photographs; the display plinth is not modelled). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 315 models · download .glb (548 KB) · Plate 44 in The Hangar