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Building Tips and technical articles. => 1/2 A building. => Topic started by: dankar on March 24, 2011, 11:19:03 AM
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I picked this up a VSC Carved two part body is very nicely done. Scientific kits are noware near this in quality. wings are solid but 1/2" thick at root and so you can put in a flyable airfoil. Details are good for way above average wood flying kit. Decals look decent and has control system[ kit type]. Plans show Atwood Wasp and another view an OK Cub. I have a good Wasp and maybe use a Holland Hornet. Nice clean undamaged canopy. This could make some oldtimer a neat project. End result would be a great little Scale flying model. this is nicest 1/2A kit I have had or seen. This is far above brick on a stick hollow logers. They even include dowels for machine gun ports. Put a AP Wasp .061RC in it and micro radio and have 1/2A carrier. Might want to trade for a Carrier kit. Class1 or 2 nostalgia.
Cheers,Dan
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Dan,
Consolidated 1/2A kits started life as solid models and were retooled when the 1/2A craze took on in 48/49
Thats why they have so much extra wood. To give you the satisfaction of shaping every part to perfection.
Dennis
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Bear in mind that the early Scientific hollow logs had a thicker wing (~1/4") until later redesign ... in the mid sixties, if I remember correctly. Redesign found them with thinner wings but fatter prices apparently to keep above water despite inflation.
George
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When Walt designed the Scientific models he called for a 3/8" thick wing. I went to a 1/4" as did Scientific and Walt wrote to me and objected. Some of our models still have a 3/8" wing, some 1/4" and some have a 1/8" wing like some of the Scientific models did. Some of the Scientific models had a change in the chord of the wings from 2" to 3" like the "Little Bipe". Many wings had added trailing edges that later disappeared.
The Fuselages were designed to be made from a 1 1/2" x 2" block but over the years that shrunk in size too. The early kits had one piece fuselages, later a separate tail block was added to a shorter fuselage.
While all of these changes and more were made, the pictures in the ads and on the boxes remained the same. We sometimes get complaints that our kits are not exactly like the original Scientific kit was (or the one they remember), so we have settled to make the kits close but not exact.
Scientific like all companies had to keep an eye on the bottom line and if they could buy a load of balsa that no one else wanted and make it work they did. That is just business.
Larry
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The new Black Hawk kits look good. I like the ones with plastic cowl. The scientfic kits used thin foil that would never stay on. These were bought when we crashed a ARF of the day. Lucky for me Goldberg had just come out with Stuntman23/ Jumping bean/little satan etc. I showed up one morning at a field they were trying to fly some plastic stuff. I had a nice silk covered Little satan with RR1. This engine screamed and came to life like right now. Flew it a couple of times and guys could not belive what they just seen. Hey that thing is fast. I didn't know they flew upside down and did loops etc. Great fun.
Dan S?P
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I did not know that our planes would do stunts until I went to a Musciano contest and saw what can be done. After that I made a few minor adjustments to our kits to improve their stunting abilities.
Larry