WOW! DENNIS!!!!
Thanks for taking the time to glean, gather, scann those beautiful photos that so nicely shows the history of your growth and successful progress through your life in modeling and the pathway in which you made toward becoming a multi-winning stunt flyer in precision aerobatics.
Thanks for sharing these photos with us. I especially love that last V tail model of the amazing ssemi-scale Fouga Majister full scale demonstration aerobatic team jets that won the hearts and minds of those large crowds of aviation buffs, thoughout the world.
I was and am so proud of your choice in using the V tail concept that so many windtunnel projects proved again and again....that a V tail should and could prove to be a very successful and effective tail platform that positive potential strangely still continues to be over-looked and discounted by so many modelers.
Years ago.... Karl Mathers, a friend of mine who Dad owned a full sized Bonanza...convinced his son to modify his old Kenhi Cougar with a V tail!!!?
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Everyone (myself included) told him that...he was loonier-than a Moonie-mite for wrecking a good flying Kenhi Cougar. WRONG! WRONG!
At the Tillamook fairgrounds parking lot...after test flying that V tailed Kenhi of his...I was almost ashamed the way I had been razzin and jazzin him about V tailed. I didn't admit it or never let Karl know...that his "funny looking V tailed Kenhi Cougar, flew considerabley smoother and turned tighter than my beat up old Cougar.
However that is like trying to compare Oranges with Oranges..n' apples with apples. Everyone knows that like model builders or model airplanes, the fact that: "NO TWO ARE EVER CREATED ALIKE!"
Again...Dennis! Great post and photos...keep them coming!
check out this photo of the full scale Fouga Magister!!! (Dennis...what is your ideas about adding an on and off again smoker like the full sized for stunt! )
OPPS!
(to me...personally smoke from exhaust does not always or seldom flows the pathway traveled by that model and often blows away from the model due to air turbulence vortex and actually the result makes manouvers appear less accurate that the actual flight path of the model itself?) hummm?
However what a pretty show bizz effect, huh?