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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Steven Kientz on September 18, 2022, 05:53:41 PM
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I've been wracking my brain trying to find pictures/ plans for a profile that Allen designed. The name was something to do with music. Vaguely remember musical notes on the wing of someone's airplane. I have searched here to no avail. Can anyone help me?
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'Begin the Beguine' P 51 race plane. Crashed in 1949 with pilot Bill Odem.
Jim
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He also designed a full body, flapless plane call The Fanfare (sort of music related) based on the TEOSAWKI wing.
James
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I've been wracking my brain trying to find pictures/ plans for a profile that Allen designed. The name was something to do with music. Vaguely remember musical notes on the wing of someone's airplane. I have searched here to no avail. Can anyone help me?
He took a profile R/C fun fly model Mustang put out by Charlie Baur's company called Four Pi or something like that, and kit bashed it into a profile stunt model of the Cleveland race "The Beguine." It had the music from the lead in to the song "Begin The Beguine" down the side of the fuselage. It had the radiator air scoop removed from the belly of the airplane and replaced with round radiators on the wing tips that resembled tip tanks. It was piloted by a pilot with little race experience and crashed from a high speed stall into a house killing the pilot, Bill Odum, and a young mother and her baby that were in the house. This crash is what brought an end to the Cleveland Air Races after WW-2. I'm pretty sure this is what you are thinking of. It is published in Flying Models magazine and is a good article to have as it details Alan's method of rattle can finishing.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
PS to add: The article I mentioned is in May 2002 Flying Models magazine.
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https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/beguine/
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From the thread “Charlie Bauer P-40” in the Open Forum.
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Maybe was the Encore profile?
Can’t find a picture of it.
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Memory is worse than I thought, it is the Fanfare. Now the $64,000 question, plans for the Fanfare or Teosawki? I'm assume a ribset is out of the question. Thanks to everyone for responding.
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Memory is worse than I thought, it is the Fanfare. Now the $64,000 question, plans for the Fanfare or Teosawki? I'm assume a ribset is out of the question. Thanks to everyone for responding.
Tom Morris did kit the Fanfare at one time.
James