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Building Tips and technical articles. => 1/2 A building. => Topic started by: Trostle on May 08, 2018, 11:57:08 AM
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There have been several threads here recently about small 1/2A models for sport and/or training. One that caught my eye many years ago and still want to build for a yet too young grandson to fly is a thing called the Dainty Dolphin, October 1959, American Modeler. 20 inch wing span, 100 square inches. Plans show a McCoy Diesel, but any of the Wasp, Hornet, Atwood and Cox engines would do. I would think even a Cox .020 Baby Bee would work for a very docile airplane. It is so homely, it is almost cute.
Keith
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Cute!
One could electrocute such a design easily, too.
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Neat little model, kind of reminds me of an Aeronca C-3.
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What this reminds me of is a full scale trainer that was under powered and almost no wing area so it couldn't really fly. Had some sort of single main wheel and a trainee could experience full control while rolling along the ground. I think it was called a Penguin?? A British machine I think?
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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What this reminds me of is a full scale trainer that was under powered and almost no wing area so it couldn't really fly. Had some sort of single main wheel and a trainee could experience full control while rolling along the ground. I think it was called a Penguin?? A British machine I think?
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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A Penguin
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That's definitely a neat looking little airplane.