Week-End Wonder

[Richard Logston]

Thought I would post the plans of an airplane I built way back in the sixties, still have and recently recovered and powered by a McCoy 35. I originally flew this on a McCoy 19 back in the day. It is a take off of the Boxcar I think. It is a nice Sunday sport flier and worth the build. Most folks have enough scrap balsa laying around to build it. I built the first one using the plastic canopy, but replaced it with a balsa one painted black. The plans originally appeared in Flying Models. Richard

[john vlna]

I remember this one, I was always going to build it but never got there. I had several McCoy's I could have used. Still have one, new in the plastic case, and several older used ones.
Does the rubber band wing mount really work?
john

[Richard Logston]

John, It's no stretch to say it does work. All the force is directed to the fuselage mounted bellcrank. I usually use lots of rubber bands and recommend a hard point of some sort be glued to the wing trailing edge to prevent damage to the trailing edge. This could be a dowel inserted into the TE or a plywood piece glued to the top of the TE. I put allot of flights on it back in the sixties. It sat in my garage all these years so decided to recover and make airworthy again. Richard

[john vlna]

Richard,
Thanks for the info. I may have to build one. I have an almost finished flite streak wing some one gave me, no BC installed so it would be an easy conversion.
John