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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: YakNine on August 02, 2011, 01:31:03 PM

Title: Baby El Diablo ?
Post by: YakNine on August 02, 2011, 01:31:03 PM

I remember a while back seeing a picture of a shrunken version of Red Reinhardt's El Diablo and being a fellow Jersey Boy I was thinking it might be a good place for my AP Wasp to roost but I havent seen any thing on it lately. Just wondering T.J.

Title: Re: Baby El Diablo ?
Post by: Tom Niebuhr on August 02, 2011, 03:45:02 PM

TJ,

I'm afraid that I have been the holdup. When Norval stopped production, the project went on the back burner. There are other large priorities at this time. The Cad plans are about 75% complete. With the engines now available it will be considered again. Wayne designed a neat little airplane.

Title: Re: Baby El Diablo ?
Post by: wwwarbird on August 02, 2011, 05:51:19 PM

 This is it... ;D

Title: Re: Baby El Diablo ?
Post by: YakNine on August 02, 2011, 07:03:04 PM

You can count me in for one ! Thanks T.J.

Title: Re: Baby El Diablo ?
Post by: wwwarbird on August 02, 2011, 09:39:08 PM

 TJ,

 If you do a search here for "Li'l Diablo" you should be able to find more pics and info about the design. It is a great flyer with a Norvel .061 too. y1

Title: Re: Baby El Diablo ?
Post by: Shultzie on August 03, 2011, 08:38:21 PM

Wow!
 Anyone know when that article appeared in the magazine?
I built my first El Diablo...when I was a kiddie at Woodrow Jr. High School in SE DesMoines Iowa...waaay back in the early 50's.
Can't remember when that magazine arrived with that article...but I just knew I had to build it for my old Forster 29?

By the way...GREAT LOOKING PHOTOS OF A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE EL DIABLO "The Devil"

Title: Re: Baby El Diablo ?
Post by: Tom Niebuhr on August 03, 2011, 09:48:47 PM

The L'il Diablo has not been published, It is a new airplane by Wayne Willey..

Title: Re: Baby El Diablo ?
Post by: wwwarbird on August 03, 2011, 10:43:08 PM

 I think Schultzie is talking about Red's original, Model Airplane News, March '52.

Title: Re: Baby El Diablo ?
Post by: YakNine on August 10, 2011, 12:34:54 PM

Any plans of moving forward with this in the near future? Thanks T.J.

Title: Re: Baby El Diablo ?
Post by: Shultzie on August 10, 2011, 12:58:06 PM

Quote from: wwwarbird on August 03, 2011, 10:43:08 PM

I think Schultzie is talking about Red's original, Model Airplane News, March '52.

Yes..
My grandmother who was a hard line fundamentalist told me...that she knew I would crash and burn this model...simply because IT WAS NAMED AFTER THE DEVIL!!!

I was a newbee young modeler who had just started flying U control over at the Jr. High School.
 My grandmother who thought I was going to the Devil was not too surprized that  after about a half dozen flights...I crashed that model into a softball field backstop.  I  had a bad habit of backing up and wandering all over the field in order to keep the lines tight.
Now that I think about it...that BAD HABIT...REMAINED WITH ME FOR MANY YEARS TO FOLLOW? LL~

(Speaking of BAD HABITS...I kept flying Ukies' ever since...plus I can still hear my beloved grandmothers remarks when I would come home very very late..after taking my high school girl friends home after a date or times when my dance band buddies and I would drive out to the beach with our ladies to "WATCH THE SUBMARINE RACES!"
 quote:
"DONNIE LEE!!!WHAT KIND OF GIRLS CAN KEEP YOU OUT SO LATE? %^ (my answer) "THE  REALLY GOOD KIND, GRANDMA!" ^^ **)