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Classic Designs => Classic Planes => Topic started by: Terry Caron on October 06, 2015, 04:09:14 PM
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I posted in Open Forum and Steve Helmick suggested here.
I recently acquired this kit, the R/C-able version, and wonder when it was introduced and when it went out of production.
Is it Classic eligible?
Looks like Goldberg is only R/C these days.
Thanks.
Terry
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I had one of those set up for CL. I don't think it quite makes the classic era as I was flying mine in early 70's.
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Someone may want to check their old magazines to try to find an add for that plane in the 60's to show it is classic legal. I believe their was only one version ever kitted and it was the R/C-U/C version released in the 70's. Actually hope I'm wrong here.
It may have been an answer to the Sterling Hellcat which also showed (although in less detail) how to convert it to an R/C model. That plane came out in the 70's and is eligible for Nostalgia Carrier but not Classic Stunt 8)
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Terry, what is the copyright year on the plans? D>K
Unfortunately, Ty, there's none on the plan.
Only clue I see is that the company address does have a zip code, so it's at least sometime after whenever those come on the scene.
Terry
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From the July 1976 Model Airplane News...
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From the July 1976 Model Airplane News...
Well Bill, I guess that nails it then - not so old as I thought, but it's still pretty neat.
Thanks again to all for your interest and input.
Terry
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Hi Terry,
I will build both my Sterling Hellcat and Goldberg P-40 with out flaps and they will get either an OS .30S or .35S. Both will have fairly authentic but utilitarian finishes. Great "burn holes in the sky" models!
BIG Bear
RNMM/AMM
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Model Airplane News Magazine Nov 1962 has P40 plans that looks identical to the Goldberg. The plans don't show the wing area though. I have the plans but can't find the magazine article to go with them. Anyway, this may be the earlier P40 you are thinking of.
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Possibly so, Bill.
The notion of an earlier one came from a mention somewhere by someone when I was initially searching for info.
Comment was made about the "later R/C version", thus the implication.
A moot point in any case - my P-40 kit went to market to fund my current engine-of-the-month madness. ;D
Terry
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There is one on ebay as I type...
I have three of these Goldberg P-40 kits on the shelf in the shop. They have been there since 1986 when I purchased them (along with a Top Flite Tutor, a Sterling Winder, three Sterling Ringmasters, five Sterling Yak-9's, three Goldberg Busters and a Midwest Magician) from a going-out-of-business hobby shop for $6.95 each. Never got around to building one. Time flies............now, at age 75, I probably never will. Oh well, it's fun to think what might have been. Now with the Feds coming down on model aviation, perhaps even control line, I guess all that doesn't matter anymore anyhow. H^^
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Mine went for ~ $75.
Terry
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I wonder if it uses a lot of Cosmic Wind parts? It looks pretty similar.
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This was my first .35 size airplane!! It was given to me by my band director Mr. Lewis Patton in middle school sometime in the late 70's. It was already built and came with a Fox .35
Mr. Patton has gone on to be one of the top R/C jet pilots in the country. He hosts a little event every year called "Jet's Over Kentucky"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-jets-120/11612077-jets-over-kentucky-2015-worlds-grandest-jet-event.html
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Why not build the P-40 designed by Paul Del Gatto? It was in MAN 1962, so classic legal.
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I wonder if it uses a lot of Cosmic Wind parts? It looks pretty similar.
The wing looks like a direct Cosmic Wind knockoff. Steel rule dies cost money.
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The Shoestring ribs you can order from Brodaks are an exact fit, but have been redesigned to not use those awful shaped balsa leading and trailing edges that used to come pre-warped (just for you...) in the kit box.
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Why not build the P-40 designed by Paul Del Gatto? It was in MAN 1962, so classic legal.
That construction article is in the November issue of Model Airplane News (starts on page 26). 43" span. Plans are available from the AMA plans service. You can even get a copy of the article from that same service.
Keith