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Title: Favorite??
Post by: Bill Little on February 16, 2014, 01:28:20 PM: What has been, or is, your favorite CL model airplane?

Think about an come up with only one. Include pictures if you have them!

BIG Bear
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Ed Carlaw on February 16, 2014, 02:27:55 PM: Hey Bill, I started out in the early 70's with a Magician, bright orange, and have always loved this plan. Sorry I don't have any pictures, the plane is long since gone. It was a nice plane. :'(.Ed.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Les McDonald on February 16, 2014, 02:39:27 PM: Let me think.
Um, USA 1, nope---- Genesis, I don't think so----Hallmark, no way----The Little Red Nobler, negative.
I need to give this some more thought!
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: RC Storick on February 16, 2014, 02:42:52 PM: I have two but this is tops.
(http://stunthanger.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=34305.0;attach=141538;image)
Built by Tom Warden
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Will Hinton on February 16, 2014, 04:20:26 PM: I hope this doesn't appear to be self effacing or narcissistic, but mine is definitely my first Ephesian. 720 squares, Tom Lay VF46 on a Randy pipe and flew much better than I could at the time. I wore it out! Flew the blamed thing at least four years and many, many gallons of fuel.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Mike Keville on February 16, 2014, 04:24:21 PM: No question about it: Keith Trostle's Rabe Bearcat (Gulfhawk livery). It's got some miles on it now, but still a beauty.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Joe Just on February 16, 2014, 04:42:27 PM: Here's my all time favorite. I morphed this "Claude" from a Brodak Zero kit. Inboard tank on muffler pressure, OS .46 LA. Wish I still had it. It was a great flyer, much better than my meager talent. Not much to look at, but still my favorite
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Bob Whitely on February 16, 2014, 04:52:01 PM: Sparky, You didn't say who built that plane. I was there when it was designed, built
and painted. It was/is an absolutely gorgeous model and would be front row at any
contest! I got to fly it a couple of times. Used a RedHead .40. I still miss my good
friend as he taught me a lot about building and painting. Oh yeah, his name was
Tom Warden. RJ

P.S. Tom was also a top three finalist at the Nat's.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: RC Storick on February 16, 2014, 04:53:47 PM: Your right Bob I forgot. And it is Tom Wardens plane. There was also a green one but it got run over.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Andrew Saunders on February 16, 2014, 04:57:10 PM: This is my favorite. The Caribbean Cruiser/ Mike Starett and i came up with this design last building season. Its a great flying plane!!!
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: RknRusty on February 16, 2014, 05:26:14 PM: Hope you big dudes aren't underwhelmed by my 1/2A roots. ;) But when I built this plane several years ago, for the first time I felt like I was flying more than just a toy. This Baby Flite Streak in the traditional color scheme, powered by a bladder fed Tee Dee .051, will go anywhere I point it, and do an outside loop from upright 10 feet high. I take it every time I go flying, and loosen up with it before I practice patterns with my stunter. Though I have a faster one with a Norvel power plant, I love this one because I built it. The other Streak airframe was a gift.

After I clipped the oak tree in the second video, I decided I better find a bigger field and joined my first club the next day. It's not as close to the brick building as it looks.
Rusty

(http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u116/rknrusty/Airplanes/WP_20130928_017_zps031b965e.jpg) (http://s166.photobucket.com/user/rknrusty/media/Airplanes/WP_20130928_017_zps031b965e.jpg.html)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTapDr8T9-8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiAl56Z3bb4
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Gerald Arana on February 16, 2014, 05:44:46 PM: A couple of those "Whiffer-dills" got pretty close to the ground! It looked like you were behind the airplane on most of the manoeuvres.

I'd suggest a lower pitch prop or putting that one on backwards to slow it down a bit. ;D

It's all about fun...........

Jerry
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Jim Roselle on February 16, 2014, 05:57:11 PM: I got yer back on the 1/2a Rusty. This is my Baby Clown made up to look like a Yak 50, I call it the Yaking Clown. Power is a bladder feed Tee Dee. (http://i.imgur.com/2991Tza.jpg)

Jim
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Dwayne on February 16, 2014, 06:32:11 PM: Pretty much any classic I beamer. Pure art on lines. y1
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: FLOYD CARTER on February 16, 2014, 06:36:46 PM: WILDMAN 60. I've built 3 of them, the first in 1950. There have been about a dozen built (maybe more) all over the world.

Floyd
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Matt Colan on February 16, 2014, 06:51:55 PM: There's so many great airplanes out there, it makes it very hard to narrow it down to just one. I love the USA-1, which is still on my to build list in the future, Ares, Joe Adamusko's gorgeous airplanes, Cavaliers, etc. but if I really have to narrow it down to just one, it's going to have to be my Thundergazer. It is by far the best flying airplane I've ever put together, and it looks pretty good too!
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: RknRusty on February 16, 2014, 06:57:13 PM: Hey, Jim, I remember the Yakking Clown, she's a good one.
Jerry, I made it through that phase without smacking the ground and I'm less reactive nowadays, so she's still flying without any extra glue.
Rusty
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: wwwarbird on February 16, 2014, 07:08:14 PM: There's a LOT of them I really like, but Paul Walker's B-17 is probably tops in my book. y1
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Randy Ryan on February 16, 2014, 08:04:19 PM: For now this one.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Larry Fernandez on February 16, 2014, 08:06:10 PM: I'll have to say Teds Trivial Pursuit. Especially the one he flew at the World Champs in Muncie. Prettiest plane I've ever seen.

For a classic ship, I'll go with the Hemstrought PT-19.

Larry, Buttafucco Stunt Team
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: EddyR on February 17, 2014, 06:48:29 AM: Most People think the Juno Is my favorite model but it is not. I like the Cobra. It is easy to build and very good plane. The big tail turns the plane very much like a modern plane. I have built at least four of them and they all flew well. I used ST35 to ST/40-46 #^ #^
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: john e. holliday on February 17, 2014, 12:12:48 PM: Looks like you used cap strips on the ribs, is that true? Gorgeous plane by the way. Oh the model looks nice too holding the toy airplane. H^^
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Bill Little on February 17, 2014, 12:33:18 PM: I was really hoping that the models you guys picked were "YOUR" model, but still I appreciate all the posts. Lots of good models!

My favorite model that I built was my USA-1. Might get displaced in the future! LL~ LL~

BIG Bear
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: EddyR on February 17, 2014, 12:36:16 PM: John the ribs are stock 1/8" strip ribs. The Cobra was about 10 years old when I took that picture 14 years ago.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: KenP51 on February 17, 2014, 05:14:43 PM: Back in the late 60s my favorite was the Magician. Then in the 80s I built 2 more. One was a stretched version in Coverite and dope. Got a tiny bit carried away with power >:D LL~ LL~

Need another one, no not the Just Bananas. I like my arm to much ;D ;D

Ken
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Clint Ormosen on February 17, 2014, 05:20:50 PM: The JD Falcon. I have a kit, but I've never built or flown one. Just think its one of the prettiest.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: donchandler on February 17, 2014, 06:09:12 PM: Had a Flight Streak in the late 60's that lasted a decade or so. Learned a bunch on that old plane. Flew the heck out of it.

Favorite scale plane I ever built was a Sterling J-3 kit. That plane was my first attempt at anything scale other than a profile and it flew very well and placed at maybe 5 contests in the late 80's and a couple in the early 90's, a pleasure to fly.

My favorite built up stunt ship was a Don Stills Stuka Stunt (Ambroid kit) I built in the 60's. Didn't know how to fly it properly but it was memorable.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Paul Taylor on February 17, 2014, 07:32:33 PM: I will play Big Bear.

My Vector just because it is the only PA full fuse I have built.

But I also like my full size Force profile. Turns real nice.

But then I do not have the long history that most of you old farts have. LL~
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Jim Kraft on February 17, 2014, 07:46:47 PM: Since I am mainly and Old Time guy, my most fun to fly plane is my Brit Taurus. It is large at 68" span and 850 squares, but it is just a hoot to fly. It has had many hours in the air with a Fox 59, a Super Cyclone, an Orwick 64, and an Anderson Spitfire. You know you have something on the end of the lines with it.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Paul Walker on February 17, 2014, 08:06:28 PM: Quote from: Les McDonald on February 16, 2014, 02:39:27 PM
Let me think.
Um, USA 1, nope---- Genesis, I don't think so----Hallmark, no way----The Little Red Nobler, negative.
I need to give this some more thought!

Have you remembered yet Les?

Let me help. Does it start with an I? Or an Im.....? How about an Imp...?

My favorite starts with....Pre.....
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Randy Cuberly on February 18, 2014, 01:16:27 AM: My GeoXL...730 sq in 53 oz with a Belko long shaft .56. Easiest airplane to fly well I've ever owned or flown. Disappeared from the flying field one day after I forgot and left it setting in the pits. Went home and discovered my idiocy and went back but... gone!
If I had any sense I'd build another one, or two, or three...unfortunately I've never had any sense...always trying something new.

Randy Cuberly
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Gene O'Keefe on February 18, 2014, 08:02:47 AM: I've got one on the building board (so I am building it) plus it's from one of the great masters, Mr. Al Rabe's Snaggletoothe P-51 Mustang !
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: RC Storick on February 18, 2014, 08:10:15 AM: Well if it has to be one of mine, I really liked this one.
(http://stunthanger.com/smf/gallery/17_31_12_06_2_01_14.jpg)
(http://stunthanger.com/smf/gallery/17_01_01_07_10_23_39.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: DanielGelinas on February 18, 2014, 08:13:37 AM: Here is my all time favorite:

Super Chipmunk in the classic red white and blue!

This, in my opinion, is a beautiful plane and it brings back memories every time I look at it.

-Dan
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Bob Reeves on February 18, 2014, 08:53:15 AM: Skylark, probably because my first real PA ship was a Skylark built from a Sterling kit back in the 70's.

This is the one I presently fly in Classic, built from an early RSM kit.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Mike Ferguson on February 18, 2014, 10:02:29 AM: Quote from: Paul Walker on February 17, 2014, 08:06:28 PM

My favorite starts with....Pre.....

My own favorite (mostly for reasons of nostalgia) is also Paul's least favorite.

(http://stunthanger.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=34305.0;attach=141676)
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: wwwarbird on February 18, 2014, 11:29:42 AM: Quote from: Robert Storick on February 18, 2014, 08:10:15 AM
Well if it has to be one of mine, I really liked this one.
(http://stunthanger.com/smf/gallery/17_31_12_06_2_01_14.jpg)
(http://stunthanger.com/smf/gallery/17_01_01_07_10_23_39.jpg)

Me too Sparky. You could probably have another one in what, a little over 30 days? S?P
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Tim Wescott on February 18, 2014, 11:42:47 AM: Sig Dewybird. If any of you NW flyers see me at a meet with some semi-scale thing with dihedral, it's the fault of that plane.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Allan Perret on February 18, 2014, 11:56:37 AM: Quote from: Randy Cuberly on February 18, 2014, 01:16:27 AM
My GeoXL...730 spq in 53 oz with a Belko long shaft .56. Easiest airplane to fly well I've ever owned or flown. Disappeared from the flying field one day after I forgot and left it setting in the pits. Went home and discovered my idiocy and went back but... gone!
If I had any sense I'd build another one, or two, or three...unfortunately I've never had any sense...always trying something new.

Randy Cuberly
Loving that paint job. Might have to copy some of that some time. How long has it been gone ?
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Mark Scarborough on February 18, 2014, 02:16:11 PM: of mine so far? my Avenger,, LOVE the look, and so far its one of my best fliers,, though my Gee Bee profile flew very very well,,
as for pure looks,, my bf 109 still turns me on, but it had trim issues
though I think my new build will probably ultimatly be my favorite if all goes well,,
and if I get it actually built and finished this year,, sigh
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Allan Perret on February 18, 2014, 06:49:17 PM: Chevelle
I put my biggest effort into this finish, and I was somewhat satisfied with the result. For me that's saying a lot.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Dave_Trible on February 18, 2014, 09:30:41 PM: Quote from: Jim Kraft on February 17, 2014, 07:46:47 PM
Since I am mainly and Old Time guy, my most fun to fly plane is my Brit Taurus. It is large at 68" span and 850 squares, but it is just a hoot to fly. It has had many hours in the air with a Fox 59, a Super Cyclone, an Orwick 64, and an Anderson Spitfire. You know you have something on the end of the lines with it.
[/quote Jim I wondered what you thought about comparing power of the Cyclone and the Anderson in your Taurus. The Spitfire seems like more of a brute in your hand but what about in the air?
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Randy Cuberly on February 18, 2014, 10:51:36 PM: Quote from: Allan Perret on February 18, 2014, 11:56:37 AM
Loving that paint job. Might have to copy some of that some time. How long has it been gone ?

Thanks Allan,
Stupidly left it at the field about a year and a half ago. I miss it still!
It was about eight years old when that picture was taken.

Your Chevelle is very beautiful...very nicely done!

Randy Cuberly
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: RandySmith on February 18, 2014, 11:15:09 PM: Quote from: Randy Cuberly on February 18, 2014, 01:16:27 AM
My GeoXL...730 sq in 53 oz with a Belko long shaft .56. Easiest airplane to fly well I've ever owned or flown. Disappeared from the flying field one day after I forgot and left it setting in the pits. Went home and discovered my idiocy and went back but... gone!
If I had any sense I'd build another one, or two, or three...unfortunately I've never had any sense...always trying something new.

Randy Cuberly

If you liked that one you should try a Novar ;D ;D

Randy
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Howard Rush on February 19, 2014, 12:44:31 AM: Allan, that is really nice.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: NED-088 on February 19, 2014, 03:51:59 AM: I've got two that tie for first place:

One I saw back at the 1978 WCh: Al's Snaggletooth.
An the other I remember from the 1990 WCh, Anatoli Kolesnikov's KA-10

In my opinion a good F2B plane has -or at least suggests- the looks of a real plane.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Mike Keville on February 19, 2014, 08:07:58 PM: I must agree: that KA-10 is outstanding!
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Airacobra on February 19, 2014, 08:42:42 PM: My vote would be a Mike Deitreich Cobra. Sorry if I butchered his last name, but there is no way to forget his planes.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: John Sunderland on February 19, 2014, 09:57:56 PM: Here is my favorite.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Airacobra on February 20, 2014, 09:12:40 AM: That's a great one to John, no doubt about it. Like for you to do another one?????
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Gerald Arana on February 20, 2014, 10:19:58 AM: Favorite? HB~> That's an impossibility for me. I love'm all! But only if they fly. I dislike "Hanger Queens" at the flying field n1, but in a museum they are OK. y1

Jerry
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Will Hinton on February 20, 2014, 01:42:19 PM: John S. - not to ambush/hijack the thread, but how's your dad?
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Trostle on February 20, 2014, 04:31:00 PM: Quote from: Bob Whitely on February 16, 2014, 04:52:01 PM
Sparky, You didn't say who built that plane. I was there when it was designed, built
and painted. It was/is an absolutely gorgeous model and would be front row at any
contest! I got to fly it a couple of times. Used a RedHead .40. I still miss my good
friend as he taught me a lot about building and painting. Oh yeah, his name was
Tom Warden. RJ

P.S. Tom was also a top three finalist at the Nat's.

Let's see here now. That Tom Warden with maybe that airplane was 1/2 of the famous OS Stunt Team in the early 70's. Featured in several of the World Engines advertisements found on the rear cover page of Model Airplane News for several months.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: steve bittner on February 21, 2014, 01:09:56 PM: Quote from: Clint Ormosen on February 17, 2014, 05:20:50 PM
The JD Falcon. I have a kit, but I've never built or flown one. Just think its one of the prettiest.
Never knew that plane was kitted, who made it please? I have always loved it but never got around to scratch build it. If you ever decide to part with it, I would love to have it. Thanks
Steve Bittner
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Jim Thomerson on February 21, 2014, 01:46:06 PM: Whatever I am flying at the moment, which flys to suit me, is the favorite. I have built several of Frank Ehling's 1949 Easy airplanes, a #4, two #5, a #6, and two #7. The other is the Dmeco Stuntwing. One many years ago with a Torp 19, and three in recent years with St G20-15 diesels.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Don Hutchinson AMA5402 on February 21, 2014, 04:10:46 PM: I guess mine would be the Bob Palmer Go-Devil models. I have built a dozen of them over the years, first one in 1948.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Randy Cuberly on February 21, 2014, 05:38:38 PM: Quote from: RandySmith on February 18, 2014, 11:15:09 PM
If you liked that one you should try a Novar ;D ;D

Randy

I just might do that Randy...I have been attracted to it before.

I have another PA65 doing nothing. Right now I'm trying to finish some airplanes and there I go thinking about starting another one...I have 4 to paint right now!

Thanks for the suggestion though!

Still....

Randy Cuberly
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Herb Calvin on February 21, 2014, 06:35:13 PM: Will, Hows the fellow holding the plane :)
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Herb Calvin on February 21, 2014, 06:41:57 PM: Quote from: Herb Calvin on February 21, 2014, 06:35:13 PM
Will, Hows the fellow holding the plane :)
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Will Hinton on February 22, 2014, 12:39:57 PM: Quote from: Herb Calvin on February 21, 2014, 06:41:57 PM

Hi Herb,
I'm doing really good. Just started pushing 74 from the top side and able to work out three days a week, still spend lots of time in the shop, and thoroughly enjoying life.
Thanks for asking, how about yourself? doing great, I hope.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Bill Little on February 22, 2014, 01:15:41 PM: Quote from: steve bittner on February 21, 2014, 01:09:56 PM
Never knew that plane was kitted, who made it please? I have always loved it but never got around to scratch build it. If you ever decide to part with it, I would love to have it. Thanks
Steve Bittner

Hi Steve,

Blue Sky Models (Tom Niebuhr) Made a beautiful kit of the JD Falcon. Laser cut, etc., and since Tom is a great friend of John D'., it was accurate.

With Tom's recent health problem, he has suspended kit production, but it would be worth it to contact him. a finer Gentleman you will never meet!

BIG Bear
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: John Sunderland on February 22, 2014, 08:08:54 PM: Quote from: Airacobra on February 20, 2014, 09:12:40 AM
That's a great one to John, no doubt about it. Like for you to do another one?????

Its a possibility.....just cant get jazzed about building when doing the type of work I do....last thing I want to do at the end of the day to relax is to sand or spray or fiddle with fine detail. Hey, do you or anyione in club have pics of my last Chevelle? Sorry didnt mean to jack the thread! PM me Keith.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Michael Roberts on March 25, 2014, 07:44:26 PM: I found "This One" on another site when I was surfing around one day...
Bob Baron's flapless " HUMBUG"
I just gotta build one... y1
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Randy Ryan on March 25, 2014, 07:58:48 PM: Quote from: John Sunderland on February 19, 2014, 09:57:56 PM
Here is my favorite.

Hey, where the heck you been keepin' yourself?
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Jared Hays on March 25, 2014, 09:06:10 PM: My 2 favorite's

(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/ProETNova/JARED-PC/Airplanes%2080_s/SCAN0013.jpg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/ProETNova/media/JARED-PC/Airplanes%2080_s/SCAN0013.jpg.html)

(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/ProETNova/JARED-PC/Airplanes%2080_s/SCAN0034.jpg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/ProETNova/media/JARED-PC/Airplanes%2080_s/SCAN0034.jpg.html)

My dad's favorite

(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/ProETNova/lesmcdonaldsstiletto.jpg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/ProETNova/media/lesmcdonaldsstiletto.jpg.html)

so he built this

(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/ProETNova/dadsplane.jpg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/ProETNova/media/dadsplane.jpg.html)

my grandpa's favorite

(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/ProETNova/JARED-PC/Airplanes%2080_s/SCAN0039.jpg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/ProETNova/media/JARED-PC/Airplanes%2080_s/SCAN0039.jpg.html)

so he built this

(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/ProETNova/Mirage2.jpg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/ProETNova/media/Mirage2.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: John Sunderland on March 25, 2014, 10:24:26 PM: Quote from: Randy Ryan on March 25, 2014, 07:58:48 PM

Hey, where the heck you been keepin' yourself?

Living and working in Phoenix! ;D
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Kim Doherty on March 26, 2014, 10:18:17 AM: My favourite. Taught me how a great model should fly. Built 5 so far.

Kim.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: RknRusty on March 26, 2014, 01:39:23 PM: Man, you guys have some great taste in shapes and colors. I may never be able to build all of those but I see some designs that will surely inspire me to bash together some profiles for no better reason than to put my unused engines to work.

Here's a plastic fantastic design I love, but have only seen once in real life. A slab version build is destined for either a Thunder Tiger .15 or a Tee Dee .09. Maybe even an Enya 35.
(http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u116/rknrusty/Airplanes/img_0310_zpsc0ab9384.jpg)

My version is a Flite Streak in disguise:
(http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u116/rknrusty/Airplanes/viperprofileplan_zps6f9285f5.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Richard Walbridge on March 26, 2014, 02:04:23 PM: Quote from: Bill Little on February 16, 2014, 01:28:20 PM
What has been, or is, your favorite CL model airplane?

Think about an come up with only one. Include pictures if you have them!

BIG Bear

My favorite is PTG's Diva. I enjoyed building and flying mine...
A VERY CLOSE 2nd would be my Spitfire...

Rich Walbridge
Central Valley Stunt Mafia
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Ted Fancher on March 26, 2014, 02:48:52 PM: Quote from: John Sunderland on February 19, 2014, 09:57:56 PM
Here is my favorite.

One of mine, too John!

Ted
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Ted Fancher on March 26, 2014, 02:51:16 PM: Quote from: Allan Perret on February 18, 2014, 06:49:17 PM
Chevelle
I put my biggest effort into this finish, and I was somewhat satisfied with the result. For me that's saying a lot.

Very special, Allan. I've got a thing for open cockpit stunters.

Ted
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Jared Hays on March 26, 2014, 03:06:31 PM: Quote from: RknRusty on March 26, 2014, 01:39:23 PM
Man, you guys have some great taste in shapes and colors. I may never be able to build all of those but I see some designs that will surely inspire me to bash together some profiles for no better reason than to put my unused engines to work.

Here's a plastic fantastic design I love, but have only seen once in real life. A slab version build is destined for either a Thunder Tiger .15 or a Tee Dee .09. Maybe even an Enya 35.
(http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u116/rknrusty/Airplanes/img_0310_zpsc0ab9384.jpg)

My version is a Flite Streak in disguise:
(http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u116/rknrusty/Airplanes/viperprofileplan_zps6f9285f5.jpg)

I have 3 of those Cox Hyper Viper's new in the box and 1 that I fly. #^
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: RknRusty on March 26, 2014, 10:46:08 PM: Quote from: Jared Hays on March 26, 2014, 03:06:31 PM
I have 3 of those Cox Hyper Viper's new in the box and 1 that I fly. #^
It really is a sharp looking plane. I saw a guy on the Tube flying some pattern style loops and Horizontal 8s and it looked pretty good. I sure wish it had been designed with a Tee Dee instead of a Bee though. A Killer Bee refit would be almost as good. I'd love to have one. I'd fly it if I did.
I hope I can get around to making my profile copy this Summer. I have a Skyray and an Oriental in line ahead of it though.
Rusty
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Jared Hays on March 27, 2014, 07:28:17 AM: Quote from: RknRusty on March 26, 2014, 10:46:08 PM
It really is a sharp looking plane. I saw a guy on the Tube flying some pattern style loops and Horizontal 8s and it looked pretty good. I sure wish it had been designed with a Tee Dee instead of a Bee though. A Killer Bee refit would be almost as good. I'd love to have one. I'd fly it if I did.
I hope I can get around to making my profile copy this Summer. I have a Skyray and an Oriental in line ahead of it though.
Rusty

Yea it needs more power...The "sure start" .049 that comes with is just barely enough power to sustain flight but you cant even do a real wingover. I swopped it for a killer bee and now your can get through some of the pattern but it need more yet...Im actually planning on an electric conversion for mine.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Tom Niebuhr on March 27, 2014, 08:42:48 AM: I have had some really good airplanes in the past. My "Clipper" that I designed in 1964 was great in all conditions. That's Ed Elasick sitting on my tool box.

While you either like it or not John D'Ottavio's "Jerseyan", that I am still flying, is perhaps the best. Grooves like it is on tracks and turns on a dime. With moments that are seen today, this design was way ahead of it's time. It does everything that you can ask in all weather conditions.
Title: Re: Favorite??
Post by: Scott Richlen on March 28, 2014, 05:47:00 AM: Here's my favorite...