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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Combat => Topic started by: dankar on November 25, 2012, 04:50:14 AM
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I went to local RC contest as they have swap meet at them. One table alot of old kits but priced high. Later went over and talked to guy and he explained they were given to him. I bought a couple of kits and later made him a n offer for what I wanted. Anyway now have five kits for Combat. Mongoose by fast Richard/Super Swoop by Sterling/
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HI Dan,
I would be very interested in your Mongoose II kit. I fly a Mongoose (very sucessfully) but never
had my own plan or kit. I would like you send it to a friend (in Tucson) for me to pick up, if that's OK?
Please contact me with details at: pgibeault@shaw.ca THANKS!
Cheers, Paul Gibeault
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Prices?
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Hi Dan
If you throw out the kit wood, the Super Swoop is a decent airplane with a G21/35. :)
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Much to my surprise most of combat kits sold on RC groups, as several Carrier planes. I was going to build Sterling Corsair but bought the built Mauler and had no need for another build. Woodie combat planes just can not equal a good foamie or modern wood framed bird.
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Dan
My first Swoop was built around 1964 and I used to make fiberglass bladder tubes layed up around a nylon golf tube. Well when I got it finished and took it out to the flying field for a test flight. The bladders kept breaking within 30 sec. or so after launch. Finally the outboard wing started getting fuel soaked. Long story short, it seems there was a burr someplace in my bladder tube that kept breaking the bladders. That was the first and last time that happened to me ! Anyway the Sterling kit wood was so heavy the performance suffered. And you mentioned the Sterling Corsair. I had a friend who used to do horizontal eights, inverted flight, and inside & outside loops on a regular basis with his. A pretty good flier it was. :) No doubt you are correct about modern foam or wood framed airplanes.
Dan
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Cripes, I just ran across it and can't find it again. I saw a scan of a couple of pages from AAM I believe. On the left was Jim Carpenter after winning the NATS with his Super Swoop, and on the right were a small sketch set of plans. Like a LOT of these old planes, the pictured plane had 6 full bays between the centerline and the rib starting the tip. On the plan it only showed five. Those old guys were tricky.
Riley Wooten commented, on here I believe, that the Sneekers he flew use 36 in. wood for the wing plus tips. The kit, for cost reasons, had 34 in. span. Needless to say, the larger plane flew better than the short span version.