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Title: Les McDonald's 1970 Stiletto
Post by: RandySmith on September 16, 2007, 07:29:50 PM

HI All

This is the 1970 McDonald Stiletto
Won The  1970 KOI  and was powered by a FOX 35,  Very soon after Les   Discovered the  OS 35  and that engine was the one of choice for many years

Randy

Title: Re: Les NcDonald's 1970 Stiletto
Post by: Randy Powell on September 16, 2007, 09:57:31 PM

If he flew it in the 1970 KOI, wouldn't it have been built in 1969?

Hmmm, could have been late in the year, I guess.

Title: Re: Les NcDonald's 1970 Stiletto
Post by: RandySmith on September 16, 2007, 09:59:51 PM

Quote from: Randy Powell on September 16, 2007, 09:57:31 PM

If he flew it in the 1970 KOI, wouldn't it have been built in 1969?

Hmmm, could have been late in the year, I guess.

Hi Randy

the  KOI was  in  December of 1970 the plane was  also  built in 1970

Randy

Title: Re: Les NcDonald's 1970 Stiletto
Post by: Dennis Adamisin on September 16, 2007, 10:02:04 PM

Tanks again Randy S

Oh, and what Randy P said.  Could this be the elusive Classic legal Stilletto?

Title: Re: Les NcDonald's 1970 Stiletto
Post by: Randy Powell on September 17, 2007, 10:43:35 AM

RAndy,

OK. I had thought maybe the KOI was in January of 1970. Oh well.

Title: Re: Les McDonald's 1970 Stiletto
Post by: Ron King on September 17, 2007, 03:03:13 PM

Way back in the sixties, the KOI was a super huge contest, with RC, FF, and CL. We all considered it a Winter Nationals.

The ones I attended were held a week or two before Christmas.

Ron

Title: Re: Les McDonald's 1970 Stiletto
Post by: Bill Little on September 18, 2007, 07:57:15 AM

I guess it is like Vic Macaluso's F-8 Crusader he built for the '70 NATS.  He didn't start on it until he crashed his planes in early 1970.  It was a construction article along with Billy Suarez's F-4 Phantom (which IS Classic Legal!) in AM in 1971, IIRC.