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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Combat => Topic started by: Phil Spillman on December 10, 2016, 08:26:56 PM
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Once upon a time way long ago I learned to fly Combat with one of these designs. Anybody out there have plans for this plane or know where to get them? Would like to find a set for a good friend who wants to build one!
Phil Spillman
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Barry Baxter has plans for a Midwest kit if it's the one you want. http://www.controllineplans.com/
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Good looking airplane. Have never flown one, but they look like pretty good performers.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201135797981555&set=a.10201134603751700.1073741827.1367679344&type=3&theater
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Bob, just came back from the museum posting that the link took me too. Sure brings back a lot of memories to this old man. Wad so thankful that I got to meet your Dad at one of the combat contests at Tuscon before the VSC champs. Maybe one of these years I will make it out to see it in person.
By the way guys if you want to revive memories, go to Barry's site and look through the plan listings.
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I've purchased many sets of plans from Barry. His service is a life saver for old combat guys!
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At this years GSCB combat festival we had two Hornets in the air. Mine has a McCoy Lightning Bolt 35 for power and hit a top speed of 93 MPH and is a fun plane to fly. But be warned the plane likes to go inverted as soon as it is hand launched. No matter what I did it went right into a inside loop. The other Hornet shared the same flight characteristics. I would make the plane extra nose heavy until you get a few flights on it.
Al
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I've had a lot of the combat wings that wanted to do that if you were not on your toes. That is why I launch from the side.
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In built two Midwest Hornets in the 1961-62 time frame. I won my first combat trophy with one, based on a better pit crew, not a good-flying plane.
I built the second Hornet on the theory that I must have screwed up on the first, but the results weren't much better. From then on it was Voodoos, Combat Cats, a Wasp, a Big Iron and Sneakers.
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I sell full size .pdf files of Hornet plans. I also sell laser cut Hornet kits. My plans and kits are designed to eliminate the Hornet problem of losing the outboard half of the wing.
Pat