Keith I hope you copied and pasted that list in and did not take all the time to type those in individually.
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I had planned to work on this over a long period of time but if I understand you right, this has already been done?
Mike
Hi Mike,
To my knowledge, there is not a listing of "Flapless Stunt Designs for .15 and Larger Engines".
What I have collected over the years are copies of stunt construction design articles. I have had access to magazine collections from the early 40's. However, I have had only limited access to the many foreign magazines - European and Japanese though some of the "more interesting" designs from these sources appear in the Aeromodeller Annuals which I have the complete collection - 1948 through 1979. These are in loose leaf binders with some semblance of organization sorted alphabetically by name of the design. There are nine of these 3" binders. (Fills a 30" shelf in my library.) There are 5 binders of what I call "Conventional" design, A through Z. That is what I started going through last night for the listing above A through K. Really, it did not take much time to do these. I will add to the list over the next several days if this is what you are looking for. Two of the binders are for semi scale designs where there will be a few without flaps. Then, there are two binders of OTS designs where most will be flapless. I have old Aeromodeller Plans listing that have illustrations of these designs. Some of those I have the plans for, many I do not but will be able to tell if they are flapless from the illustrations. I also have another binder just for 1/2A designs. There is some duplication among those binders. For instance, some of the OTS designs appear in the "Conventional" books as well.
I will not get into the Dave Day listings. Dave Day no longer maintains his website, but Windy Urtnowski has taken on that responsibility. We all owe Windy a big "Thanks" for doing this. It can be found at
http://www.windyurtnowski.com/DaveDay/ . This includes many foreign designs that I do not have as well as foreign kits. Not only does this list contain the 465 OTS designs, most of which will be flapless, but there is also a listing of 432 Classic designs. But these listings do not indicate if the designs are flapless. (This reminds me that I need to copy the Dave Day listings before that website is lost to us.)
My library also includes more of these large binders --More than 25 for stunt related articles. These are articles published over the years that might have some relation to our CLPA models. Materials, construction techniques, engines, mufflers, props, design studies and sketches, technology stuff, methods, components, finishing, control systems, hardware, fuel, plugs, major contests, nearly all of the stunt columns published over the years, and more. One book is filled with what I consider significant articles by significant people in this event. I also have material on other events, both CL and FF. Also have Stunt News from the beginning (with a few missing issues from the 80's). In all, besides the 9 stunt binders described above, I have nearly six four foot shelves filled with these binders in my store room.
I will continue with my listing if this is what you are looking for. It will be good to have this sort of listing. However, my list will be far from complete because it will not include many of the designs that are in the Dave Day listings and I have not had access to all of the foreign magazines though some of those designs are in my files. Also, I will not check my list against what others may have already submitted to this thread, so there will be some duplication. Also, my list will not include designs that appeared in kits but were not published as construction articles in the magazines. My list will also include a few OTS and Classic designs that are not included in the Tom Morris publications for these designs -- most of these are rather "obscure" but they are there nonetheless and some are quite interesting.
Keith
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