Steve Buso design

[Matt Colan]

I was watching an old Windy video, and Steve Buso was flying at the 94 Nats.  The plane he was flying caught my attention, but don't know the name of it.  It was a jet styled plane, wheelpants, and on a pipe.  The plane had a white scheme with yellow and red trim on it.  That's all I know.

So does anybody got pics of that fantastic plane, and what is the name of it?

[Bill Hummel]

Hi, Matt, only name that comes to mind is the "Soundwave".  It was Steve's entry into piped stunt...did very well with it.  He followed Randy Smith's directions to the letter, often commented that the set-up was truly "flip and fly"!  Someone might have drawings of this design?  Steve's finishing techniques were simple but superbly done. Hope this helps a little...

[Bill Little]

Steve had several real sharp designs.  I remember the *Zap Machine* very well...... we sat in the parking lot a while one evening wiping down the planes at Lawrenceville in '93.

Mongo

[Derek Barry]

WOW the old ZAP MACHINE I cant believe you remember that big guy! That was one cool plane. Black base and about every other color in the world on it.


Matt I will go to my dad's and look through the old pictures I am sure I can find one of the Zap Machine.

[Jim Damerell]

Matt;
I think Len Harding still has that airplane. Another great Buso design is the Hercules, and the Jaguar.

[KEITH McCRARY]

Come on guys, if you want to find something search the world wide web.



Keith McCrary

P.S.

Steve talks about the gear moving forward and backwards. What advantage is that? Grass - pavment set up?

Also note Big Jim 'Greenaway' technology. Give this man his propers.

[phil c]

Steve talks about the gear moving forward and backwards. What advantage is that? Grass - pavement set up?

Also note Big Jim 'Greenaway' technology. Give this man his propers.

The gear needs to be forward for grass, more to the rear for pavement.  Nomoially, you want the tire contact point on a line about 15 deg. ahead of the C.G.  Depending on the size of the wheels, the softness of the tires, the springiness of the gear legs, and etc. the plane will tend to porpoise if the wheels are too far forward, and conversely tip over on the nose if they are too far back.

On grass, wheels at least 2.5 in. work fairly well, 2.75-3 inl. even better.  On really short grass you can get away with 2 in.  On pavement, anything goes.

[Matt Colan]

And Bill has the Jaguar Zap machine, and the Heatwave, two very cool planes.  Now about that jet plane he designed, it was REALLY COOL from what I've seen on that video.

Every plane I've seen him design looks great, don't know of one that has bad lines.

[Richard Grogan]

So what happened to Steve? I remember him from the ZAP gang ads and him holding his Kestrell model(Zap machine)...

[RandySmith]

Steve is a very talented desin guy and his plans are  first class  with many detailed items.
I have his plans in my catalog, they are really good planes, and would be great ones to build

You can see or order them from here...  www.aeroproduct.net
click on plans

Randy

[Ward Van Duzer]

Steve was a really cool guy, and great artist, that refused to accept the guff as President of PAMPA.

Too bad...


W.

[Randy Powell]

I was always partial to the Vegas.

[Larry Cunningham]

Here's  a Buso design - my Cascade 545.

Although I had bad luck with this model (my friend Bill Huang crashed it), this was one of my
better paint schemes.. 

I still have the plans for the larger Cascade 700 model.

L.

"Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -Oscar Wilde

[Bill Little]

As to Steve, personally, you can never find a better or more talented man.

Mongo