Talked to Jim Vornholt last night. He has just joined our club of bionic people with a shoulder replacement. He is starting rehab.
He rebuilt his Carousel twice, but doesn't remember details of the controls and contradictions on the drawing.
I have found discrepancies that were not uncommon on published plans of the era.
The top view of the wing shows 1/4" main spars at the aft end of the L.E. sheeting, but the ribs show 1/8" spars. The flap to elevator pushrod is drawn as 1/6" dia. but the plan callout says 3/32" pushrod.
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I think the pushrods were 1/16 since the small booms would be hard to fit 3/32" in. I would prefer the larger dia.. I'm going to have to do some test bends.
In either case I will avoid the problems that I had in the past. The Carousel has a lot of potential for Classic.
Jim also said that he watched Bob Randall build his new version of the Gobbleswantz. I believed was the Liberator or Devastator. Bob had a lot of trouble getting everything aligned. This is a problem with most boomers.
A modern competitive boomer would be very difficult since it would be difficult to include some of our trimming devices, but this could be a challenge for someone to take on.