Hi Dan. The kit bus started in 1993 and ran about 4 years. This was actually the first one. This and the Sukoi were the backbone of the production so i think there will be a few kits and plans out there. Lately in a few cases i've been sending out a copy of the plans on request for something just over cost. Maybe if I ever retire I'll hand make a few kits again since I do still have all the production patterns and stuff. We'll see.
I remember the contest you are talking about there in St. Louis. What I had then was a take-off of the Sukoi done as a semi scale Dauntless dive bomber. I remember i was struggling in Buder Park with losing the airplane as it dropped below the tree line with the paint job-it just vanished each time. I was/am used to flying mostly out in the open without the close backdrop. I also did a Hellcat look-like off the Sukoi airframe that was a favorite with me and the family-both sons-in-law learned the whole pattern on it and it still survives in Kevin's basement. I've been threatening to built another like it and maybe enlarged a bit to .60 size. These two designs were most unusual at the time because of size-some of the first to use .40s+ for power. The FP .40 is/was about the minimum that will pull them. We could never get the LAs to come up with the ponies to really do the job. We tried all sorts of props, etc., but the difference felt noticeable at the handle. Until then .35s were the norm for profiles. Aside from my own flying, Todd Lee won the King Orange Internats in OPEN with Shameless one year. Sukoi won the Aussie Nats OPEN stunt twice and third another time in the hands of Mr. Batty and son. I THINK Todd was using an OS FP .40 as I did mostly and the Aussie Sukoi used the Tiger .46. The original Shameless now sports an Enya .45 6001.