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Classic Designs => Classic Planes => Topic started by: Fred DiMaria on September 22, 2013, 09:28:00 AM

Title: Sterling Ringmaster
Post by: Fred DiMaria on September 22, 2013, 09:28:00 AM

Built from an old Sterling kit.

I finished the fuse and tail with a combination of Sig and Brodak dope, wings are monokote.

I am only recently getting reinterested in C/L, I built a few of them as a kid, but transitioned to R/C at 13.  I am now re-discovering C/L.  This is my first real attempt to obtain a decent paint job using dope, and I give myself a C+.  The fillets got messed up as I used epoxolite for the main fillets which worked fine. I used the ultra lightweight white filler to do final detail on the fillets, which is NOT compatible with dope. The dope blows up like a balloon! Note to myself for next control line airplane, which is a Brodak Tomahawk!

Title: Re: Sterling Ringmaster
Post by: RknRusty on September 22, 2013, 10:00:42 AM

Nice job, Fred, she's a beauty. What kind of power plant have you got in mind for it?
Looking forward to a flight report.
Welcome to Stunthangar.
Rusty

Title: Re: Sterling Ringmaster
Post by: Jeff Traxler on September 22, 2013, 11:41:24 AM

Hi Fred,Nice ship!!Can't have a Ringmaster without a little checkerboard.Welcome to Stunhangerand back to model airplane flying like it was meant to be.I got back in C/L about 5 years ago and I love every minute of it.There is a FANTASTIC bunch of people in this hobby and I am glad to meet each and every one.We're all airheads(Not the blonde kind) and that makes it fun.The best part is you don't have to walk as far to pick up disbris after you wreck,It's usually 70' or less away LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~

                                       You're gonna love it!!!!  Trax

Title: Re: Sterling Ringmaster
Post by: Fred DiMaria on September 22, 2013, 02:09:29 PM

Thanks, I drilled it for a Fox .35. That may be more than I can handle, the Ringmaster (and a Goldberg Cosmic Wind) with an Enya .19, and that had plenty of power.

I have been flying a ARF Bi-Slob, so I am not completely rusty, but I a little worried about the Ringmaster.  Also, I never really flew any stunts, just circles and an occasional loop.

Anyway, I am glad to get back into it.

Title: Re: Sterling Ringmaster
Post by: 55chevr on September 22, 2013, 06:58:19 PM

Ringmaster on 60' lines with a Fox 35 should be no problem.  If it is too fast slow it done with less prop.   

Joe

Title: Re: Sterling Ringmaster
Post by: Jim Kraft on September 23, 2013, 11:32:08 AM

Ringmasters and Fox 35's just go together. Not sure why but something about the short nose seems to alleviate a lot of the bad vibes in the nose and the Fox runs very well, at least for me and others that I fly with. My friend Andrew Hathaway has one that is the best running flying Fox 35 powered Ringmaster that I have ever seen. It runs very steady from begining to end.

Title: Re: Sterling Ringmaster
Post by: James C. Martin on July 01, 2014, 07:46:25 PM

have been flying this one for years on a fox 35 and it has seen a couple foxes , like the way it runs

Title: Re: Sterling Ringmaster
Post by: FLOYD CARTER on July 07, 2014, 03:21:43 PM

Fox 35 = Duke's Revenge from the grave.