Larry, I was perusing the April 1975 issue of Model Builder in the “From The Handle” control line page. Jed Kusik mentions reviewing the ME-109 Super Stunter, and ends the paragraph saying that the Cox foam wing panels “make up into a super-performing 1/2A combat wing! Try it.”
Do you have any information about combat designs using the foam wing panels?
Mark
Hi Mark, check out Barry Baxter's Controlline plans site that is now owned by Bob Mears.
Barry spent years researching and gathering Combat and sport and stunt plans from the 1950's
to the 1990s. There are many very successful 1/2A Combat designs that use full Foam wings
and (better yet); built up wings that use foam leading edges to snag the streamer strings.
Built up with foam leading edge wings are much lighter than all foam wings. For Combat
models, the lighter the wing loading, the tighter the model can turn.
I am not sure that the Cox foam wing panels are large enough in wing area to be fashioned
into a good flying performance tuned T.D. .049 powered model. My 1/2A combat models
were all pushing 200sq"s and they could have been 20sq"s bigger for a better flying model,
with no loss in speed. As an experiment, I built a 270sq" model that weighed 5.2 ozs ready
to fly sans fuel. It was capable of 68 mph and would turn 6' diameter loops at that speed;
it had a 12% thick airfoil and was absolutely stable and predictable. Alas, it was not suitable
for combat because it was fragile and died in combat by being center punched by an opponent
that hadn't realized his streamer killed. Anyway Mark, enjoy the site and thank Bob Mears for
continuing a great service for vintage and nostalgic control line modelers.
http://www.controllineplans.com/frameset2.htmTony G