Author Topic: Does anyone remember this airplane? (Read 1440 times)

Jim Pollock · « **on:** October 20, 2006, 10:26:46 PM »

I found this photo in one of my photo files. I remember it was taken in Florida and it could have belonged to Todd Lee.

How did it fly in wind since it had such a high aspect ratio??

Jim Pollock

Chris McMillin · « **Reply #1 on:** October 21, 2006, 12:18:27 AM »

It is Little Archie Adamison's model. He flew it at the '93 Nats. It had an anhedral horizontal stab too. Foam wing, fibreglass fuse, aluminum tube spar for take apart stuff. Pretty innovative, and it flew OK. I recall it didn't set the world on fire, but a neat ship.
Chris...

Eric Viglione · « **Reply #2 on:** October 21, 2006, 06:56:19 AM »

Wern't there other Admisin high aspect jobs? I forget which were which, but had names like the "Orange Crate" or "Sweet Pea" or similar with a forward painted on jet sytle canopy and a regular flat tail?

EricV

L0U CRANE · « **Reply #3 on:** October 21, 2006, 11:15:03 AM »

Right, Roger,

Dennis A. had several in the mid-1970s. O Crate was one, and at a NATS back then I saw another with a celestial name I can't call up just now. I was very impressed with its turns. He must have made other errors in the figures as he didn't place all that high. There was talk of judges being prejudiced against high aspect ratio wings and their blinding ability to turn... Likely that was more sour grapes than accurate. Judges have improved a lot since then, too.

Doesn't really matter if you do extremely sharp turns if you can't repeat them when and where needed - the figures have other specs that must be met to earn a good score.

Jim Pollock · « **Reply #4 on:** October 22, 2006, 03:33:07 PM »

Chris,

Archie had one very similar to this but not this airplane at the 92 Nats where he won Advanced. I suspect the airplane in this picture belonged to either Dennis or Art and was in the posession of Todd Lee for selling at the contest. I guess we won't know for sure until Todd sees this and chimes in on the thread. I wonder if Todd's in the process of building another Mustang?

Jim Pollock

steve pagano · « **Reply #5 on:** October 22, 2006, 04:03:23 PM »

my guess is a big jim greenaway L.J. 46

James Lee · « **Reply #6 on:** October 22, 2006, 07:50:43 PM »

That is Todd's Plane.... It was built from one of Archie Adamisin's 'Gemini' kits. Originally had an OS 46 SF-S I think and something else later... Todd did sell the plane before he left Florida. I will try to get him to more fully explain!!

Later
Jim

OpusP51 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 22, 2006, 08:35:00 PM »

Hi Jim,

This model was built for the 1993 season from Archie Adamisin's kit, it had a fiberglass fuselage, aluminum tube spar with plug-in foam wing panels. I flew it at the 1993 Nats as my first entry in Open alongside Archie (who used his version to capture the Advanced win in 1992 and a 2nd in Sr). I powered the model with an OS 46 SF-S by Big Art.

I had the model with me during my time in Florida while attending college in Daytona Beach. It was sold at the 1997 KOI to Billy Dunn of Virginia. I heard later that Billy had flown it some and enjoyed the model.

Todd Lee