Change of pace

[Ty Marcucci]

 This is from an old Miniature Aircraft kit.

[Paul Taylor]

Looks Kewl Ty!  I like Bipes!

 

[Serge_Krauss]

Ty-

'looks really great - both of 'em. Please be sure to let us know how you like the Cavalier 660, and if you can, how do you like the big Cavalier kit?

Serge

[john e. holliday]

Good ole rubber power stick & tissue building.  To me it was so relaxing to build a stick and tissue plane.  Until I converted one to .049 power did I ever get one to fly.  It was also flown control line from the start.  Seems like all the glue joints came apart when I tried to fly it at Tulsa OK last year.  Your bipe looks great.  DOC Holliday

[dennis lipsett]

HI Doc. Back in 1966, I took a Guillows P40 Warhawk with an 18" wingspan and converted it from rubber power to a TD .020 for cl. Wow, too fast and it self destructed in flight. Fun though.  The kit was j ust too heavy for free flight. Never occured to me at the time to replace the balsa in the kit. Now I do that as a matter of habit.

Hi TY,
Did the conversion of Guillow kits and Sterling also, but not to C/L, rather R/C. I flew a Guillow Fokker Tri Plane and a Sterling Fokker D-7 both  single channel with Citizenship rcvr and escapement, with a pee wee 020 with the prop on backwards to control power.they flew fine but you had to have a removable L/G as the gear wasn't up to the stress of powered flight , landing especially. The 60's, young ,full of energy, enthusiasm, and optimism.

Dennis

[Serge_Krauss]

Hi Serge, What do you mean by big Cavalier kit?  The regular size Cavalier that came in two boxes and one thousand pieces kit?

Sorry, Ty. I meant the "kit of the big Cavalier". I have the two-box standard one and am look forward to building it - when I've left my prolonged (due to low flight time) "crash and burn" phase. The last couple Earthly encounters have been from pilot error on the ground - deciding to fly with pick-up problems - although putting it overhead under those conditions wasn't that bright...'slow learner in that regard. Anyway, I love the Cavalier and look forward to assembling those hundreds of parts. 'just don't want to re-kit it too soon. Ha! What are your impressions of the building process?

Edit: I forgot to mention how much I liked the stick and tissue kits. I have fond memories of a gaunt, chain smoking, middle-aged neighbor, Bill Lee, who moved in while I was in Jr. High. He was sort of a "Pied Piper", leading a small group of kids after work to the field behind his street where he would stretch out his lines and hook up a Chief or Ringmaster. Before starting, he would fire up an .020 and launch a Guillow or Cleveland (?) F4F or F6F for the kids to watch and retrieve. By the time he'd flown, the little FF had circled up to a hundred feet or so, glided, and landed down wind. The kids always carefully retrieved it for the next flight. This was often near dusk and is a very comfortable memory of happy youth.

Serge