First off, let me add my kudos to the others about Sparky's achievement; beautiful ship, Bob!
Mark Hughes built a number of Macchi-looking stunters over the past several years, and they are also extremely elegant. Let's face it; the Italians know how to produce beautiful hardware. Just look at any Ferrari or Ducati.
Attached is a photo of my Tucker Special that was built in 1990. Side note here: That model was built around the very first Lost-Foam wing! Also attached is a photo that augments my comments about Italian design...
Later - Bob
Hey Bubba;
Mark built two MC-72s, a red one and then a white one. The white one is the one he liked best and saw the most action and he liked it best. Unfortunately he lost that model a few months ago. He was flying down at Buder one morning in still air and didn't step back far enough on the second triangle and hit hi own wake turbulence and put the model in the ground. The only thing salvageable was the pilot out of the model, and the engine (PA-61) had a broken crank and engine mounts broken off. As he was loading things up that morning and obviously feeling bad, I told him "Build another one, only better!" And he has done just that. It's almost finished just waiting on a few details and some clear. This one is much lighter also. He was able to secure another crank shaft from Randy Smith, and I dusted off my welding skills and welded on new engine mounts. He has test run the engine several times in a stand, and just needs to mount it in another model for flight shake down, but so far all is well with the engine. Maiden flights on the new model should be forthcoming pretty soon. Today we just put the first pattern on an Imitation he built from a Mike Griffin kit. He also lost the nice Stiletto 660 he had after dragging the tail on the outside squares a few weekends ago and I'm sure he'll have something cooking soon to replace that.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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