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Here is Brian Taylor's Lighting Bug. 2 channel; rudder and
elevator with Pee Wee .020. I had the pleasure of flying this model on it's maiden flight. Brian is from Durham, NC and a
superb builder as the Lighting Bug flew out of his hand straight and true. Even landed up right on a grass runway
with the help of the larger tires. A very beautiful model and great flyer.
Brian
has done it again with the Roaring 20 kit. A beautiful job of building and look at that natural finish. Tee Dee .020 with
2 channel micro gear. I believe Brian said all up weight was 6.5 oz. Going to be a ball to fly!!
Some more of Brian's models. The Jr. Falcon and the Wee Stick.
Brian is a great builder as you can see.
| Jr Falcon |
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| Another Of Brian's Custom Builds For DeadStik |
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| Wee Stick |
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Here is Brian's new Sr Falcon he built from one of our kits. Can't get that type of quality from an ARF!!
Here is some pictures of Steve Morris' School Girl with a PAW
Diesel .049. As you can see Steve did a beautiful job!! He modified the firewall to accept the diesel and added a tank hatch.
Steve writes:
"I've attached a few photos of my Schoolgirl. The mod's I did to the nose are pretty simple, I made an engine mount from
3/16" ply that fit the front compartment and I added 5/16 balsa doublers underneath it to beef-up the front. Thanks for making
a great kit."
Steve Morris
Here are some
pictures of Floyd Harp's single channel Jr. Falcon. A beautifully finished model using vintage radio gear. Floyd says,"The
Tx and Rx are Mattel but I used an Adams
standard actuator. I removed the stiff wire antenna from the Rx and used a piece of 24 gauge hookup wire of the same length.
Right now I am using a Baby Bee but will probably switch to a Golden Bee or Black Widow later for more flight time. It is
covered with Polyspan dyed with red dye from www.fabricstodyefor.com . I used the Dye-na-flow by Jacquard. A friend`s wife travels the country teaching quilting and came up with this dye
to use on Polyspan. We bought several colors and not all of them work well. So far I have tried the red, yellow , and black.
The black came out gray but the others worked fairly well. It is a heat set dye. I used nitrate clear dope for the first coat
then Sig Litecoat clear. The black trim is Sig black butyrate."
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Here is Steve
Pierce's Wee Stick. Check out that Wee Stick Tote! Steve writes:
"Just thought
I'd send you a couple of pictures of the Wee Stick I got from you. It has a Cox .010 for power, a 145 ma LiPoly with
regulator, a Cirrus 4 receiver and two of the Cirrus 4.5g servos. Unfortunately it also has a gargantuan switch, as
I could find a small one. The all up weight is 5 3/4 ounces fueled and ready to fly (1/4 oz of that is nose weight).
And fly it does. The .010 has plenty of pulling power. It will loop from shallow dives and even do kinda ugly
rudder rolls. But when it flies at the field, it is an attention getter. I changed the rudder so I could make it sort
of a semi-scale model of a model. It builds quick and flies great. I still need to get that Skylark order to you."
Thanks,
Steve
Pierce
Here is Frank Rehak's Electric Esquire He writes:
I just finished the Esquire today and the only changes I made to the kit are:
1/32 ply doubler in the stab area I also glued a piece of 1/8
x 1/4 balsa to the bottom of the fin and then cut a slot in the top of the fuse and it even came out straight.
I will put the maiden flight on it on Monday as the weather is starting to warm up here.
There is no particular rhyme or reason for the colour scheme-I just used the monokote that I
had on hand.
The motor being used is an AXI 2820/10 with a 11 x 7 APC electric prop and a 2000 mah Kokam Li-Po
battery. The ESC is a Jeti 40 amp. The radio is a Futaba 7 channel.
Here is Ray's Minnie Mambo. He writes:
My first R/C was a Minnie Mambo in about 1961, that's why I had to do a new one. Just for comparison:
1961: Baby Bee .049, single channel with escapement, silk and dope-Aero Gloss Stearman Red
2005: Cox .050 R/C, three channels, Ultra Coat red
I still like silk and dope, but it is not "practical".
I test flew it today and it needs down thrust, the first few seconds were too exciting, but after the engine quit, one
of the spectators asked if it was a glider, it flew so well and "gently".
Thanks for the memories.
Ray
Here is a picture of our prototype Baby Stick soon to be released. My Dad Bailey Harris built this one from one of the
first kit runs. For .049 to .10 size engines
Here are photw og Gary MacCauley's Jr falcon. He has supersized the engine! Gary writes:
"Here are some photos of my Jr. Falcon. The particulars are: Norvel .074, stearable nose wheel, Hitec
555 receiver, 330ma NiMH pack, (4) Hitec HS-85 servos, covered with Monokote. I don't know the all up weight but it doesn't
feel much if any heaver that my old single channel Jr. Falcon. Remember those days, 22.5 V battery + (3) 1.5 V batteries,
Orbit receiver with a tube, and a Babcock escapement. For power a Baby Bee. It's amazing we had as much fun as we did considering
radio performance without "glitches" was rare.
We live at 5000+ elevation. So, the .074 will overcome any density altitude issues, I hope. I lengthened
the landing gear about .7 inch for better clearance using a 7" prop. Before long I will know how it works."
Gary MacCauley
Here is Bob Peterson's little School Girl. He writes:
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Hello, Bob,
I built the Schoolgirl
from your kit. I've enclosed a couple of pictures of it. It's covered with Japanese tissue followed by clear dope and then
a clear fuel proofer. It's had several flights so it sure isn't "new" but I really enjoy flying it and the attention that
it gets from our club when it flies is amazing!! It has an AP Hornet .061 in it, a 35mm camera film container as a tank, an
FMA receiver, FMA servos and a 250 mah battery pack. I can't say enough good things about the quality of the kit.
Regards,
Bob Peterson
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