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Title: Amazing what my pile of plans just produced.
Post by: Ty Marcucci on April 14, 2006, 05:12:01 PM

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Title: Re: Amazing what my pile of pllans just produced.
Post by: Ironbomb on April 14, 2006, 11:55:03 PM

Cant you just show us a liitle picture of it? A "taste"?

Come on, you brought it up.  ;D

Greg

Title: Re: Amazing what my pile of plans just produced.
Post by: Tom Niebuhr on April 18, 2006, 10:08:36 AM

Ty is correct. Ed Elasick won the Air Youth Champs at the '61 Willow Grove Nats with the "Jr Falcon". It was published as the "Topper" in March '62 American modeler. I have both the plans and the aritcle. The original airplanre did have a Fox .25 , and I agree with Ty that a .20 to .25 would be great.

Interestingly, Ed flew a Falcon at the '61 Nats, and surprised us all with his first "Impala" the next spring (1962)

One of our Dallas club members had one almost ready to cover. He had to move, and had to oput his belongings in storage. The "secure" storage area was broken into and they lost many items including the "JR Falcon-Topper" It is a shame because we were going to surprise John D'Ottavio, with all of his Classic airplanes in one place.. The "JD Falcon", "Jerseyan" and "Jr Falcon"

I will make a kit of the "Jr Falcon-Topper" if there are enough SERIOUS replies. Let me know at:    jrfalcon-topper@blueskymodels.net

Any future potential info will be in the vendors section on this site.

Here is a picture of Ed Elasic with the airplane.

Title: Re: Amazing what my pile of plans just produced.
Post by: Tom Niebuhr on April 18, 2006, 10:13:49 AM

One other interesting thing about the "Jr Falcon-Topper" is that there were no exposed controls. The pushrod from flaps to elevator were inside the profile fuselage.

Tom N

Title: Re: Amazing what my pile of plans just produced.
Post by: builditright on April 18, 2006, 05:07:34 PM

Hey that's cool looking. y1

might be a good replacement for the shark 15...

put me down,  email sent.