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Offline Jim Pollock

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Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« on: November 14, 2006, 09:39:12 PM »
Well,

Let's all mull this around and decide which of these classic airplanes is the best looking in this category.

The category is I beamers or sons or fathers of I beamers by design.  This brings a good number of other types of construction besides I beamers into the loop.

Here they are in no paticular order - -  There are others that I either forgot or don't know about.  However, let's not let the list extend over 30 or so planes

1.  Ares
2.  Ballarina (sp?
3.  All American Eagle
4.  Novi III
5.  Continental
6.  Cavalier
7.  USA-1
8.  Argus
9.  Cobra
10. Playboy
11. Minado
12.  Venus (not sure about this one)
13. Detroit Stunter

Others?

Jim Pollock   ???
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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2006, 05:18:54 AM »
Colossus and Quasar. Both similar; both nice and big.  <=

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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2006, 07:37:12 AM »
Tucker 4.
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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2006, 08:04:10 AM »
The list of candidates should also include the multitude of I-Beam designs by Jack Sheeks.  I will compile the list of the ones that I know about later today.

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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2006, 08:54:36 AM »
Quote from: Trostle on November 15, 2006, 08:04:10 AM
The list of candidates should also include the multitude of I-Beam designs by Jack Sheeks.  I will compile the list of the ones that I know about later today.

Keith Trostle

IIRC, his gull wing Stuka was an I-beamer. Simply beautiful.

Dave Reyes has made a career out of building Jack's designs and has a beautiful Sheik and Knight hanging on his wall.

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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2006, 02:28:21 PM »
Both on my build some day list:

#1 - Cobra
#2 - LaDonna

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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2006, 05:11:10 PM »
Ty    I am bulding a NUTS N BOLTS
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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2006, 05:43:01 PM »
I-Beam designs by Jack Sheeks include

Semi-Scale

Stuka
Beechcraft Staggerwing
F5F-1 Skyrocket
Sea Vixon
Demon
Messerchmitt Me-262  (published by t but still has Sheeks' influence)
Focke Wulf Fw 190
Spitfire
Sea Vixon
Flybaby
F4U Corsair


Non Semi-Scale

La Donna
Sheik
Stunt Liner
Swinger
Torino
Knght (which is a sort of Semi-Scale of the Rivet Goodyear racer)

I do not claim that this list includes all of Jack's I-Beam designs.  I am sure there are more.
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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2006, 05:53:23 PM »
There ae several more I-Beam designs that are worthy of consideration.

Electra X-35 by Jerry Worth
Airon by Bernie Ash
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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2006, 09:22:01 PM »
No one has mentioned Art Pawlowski's Atom!  IIRC, his Lunar was also a beamer.
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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2006, 08:32:05 AM »
Forgot to mention the Werwage Vulcan I have built and ready for clear!

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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2006, 03:48:48 PM »
  The coollest looking planes ever IMHO. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Picking a distinct favourite entails a bit of this....... HB~>

 Ed, in regard to the "Nuts + Bolts", are you building it as per the plan with the all flying stab?

 I'd love to build one myself when I catch up a bit, seems like a really interesting project.

 Cheers, Rob.
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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2006, 04:51:46 PM »
Rob   I am not going to use the flying tail. I am going to use a convention stab-elevator. The Nuts is not much different from another classic plane I have flown quite a bit so I am not really trying something new. I plan to use a ST/46 or a ST/51 I am not sure which it will be. I have built several parts for it but there is another plane to be built first.
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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2006, 06:38:59 PM »
Ed, your geodetic I-beam wing plane you had at marietta a couple of years back would have to be in the list of cool I-beamers.... what was that job?  (the red one)
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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2006, 10:35:17 PM »
I believe you are referring to Ed's Juno, a Werwage design and a victim of someone making Ed an offer he couldn't refuse.

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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2006, 01:27:31 PM »
I am setting at Jacks house and we reviewed your listing of his designs that are Classic elegable.  The only one missing was the Ryan S.C. which is not a true I-beamer. 
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Re: Best looking I beamer, son or father of?
« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2006, 12:18:32 PM »
The Mirage II is legal, the III isn't. Only real difference is going from a taildragger to a trike and a couple of aesthetic details. Definately on my list to build.

I currently have a Novi I on the board. About half framed up.
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