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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Combat => Topic started by: Terrence Durrill on June 28, 2018, 04:16:18 PM
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Question for the old guys........Who, reading this post, actually built a Riley Wooten PIRATE combat ship and actually flew it. It was published in the June 1955 issue of Flying Models - I did, in 1955 and powered it with a K&B .35 greenhead which was too powerful and broke the wing spar in tight turns. Riley got away with flying this design in competition (and winning), because he used a Fox .35 stunt engine. It apparently didn't have the power to destroy the wing spar in tight turns. ........... Anyway, just wondering........ because I'll bet the answer is no. D>K H^^
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I don't remember it. Of course that was before I discovered or was told about the Flying Eagles of KCK. H^^
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I don't recall the Pirate either. But I recall A LOT of outboard wings falling off fast-tight turning combat planes.
Some of the designs with upright engines involved notching the LE. In other cases, the builders compromised the spar to fit in a store-bought fuel tank.
As the writer mentioned, some involved better engines that caused the design to be over-extended.
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