new kit offering

[builditright]

posted a new kit offering in the vendors corner

http://stunthanger.com/smf/index.php?topic=21421.msg204292#msg204292

[Mike Scholtes]

Just the huckleberry for my 1960 ST35C combat special! Any price in mind for this one yet?

[builditright]

Just the huckleberry for my 1960 ST35C combat special! Any price in mind for this one yet?

Hi Mike,

Kit price is: $70.00 plus $12.50 Shipping
(lower 48 states.)


If intersted, please send an email to: tsquare@builtrightflyright.com

[Terrence Durrill]

Actually, Mike, if you want to be authentic, you need to use a Fox .35 stunt engine just like the desginer did on his original model.  I had a Sterling T-Square back in 1966/7 and flew it with a 1955 model Fox .35 stunt and occasionally with a McCoy .35 Red Head.  I am sure that the original plane used a metal tank, but I cheated a little bit and used a pacifier tank.  The old T-Square was/is a great flying plane.......smooth, quick turning, didn't slow down in the turns.  Of course, it wasn't fast by modern standards, but for the 1950's and early 1960's, how much speed did you need in the combat circle?  Sadly, I lost my T-Square in a practice combat match (1967) when my brother's K&B .35 Greenhead powered S-1 Ringmaster belcranked me and left me with a few pieces of splintered balsa and orange silk floating down to the ground.  Wouldn't mind having another one........it's a great sport plane for today's fun/weekend flier!            

[dennis lipsett]

a fox 35 will renew the meaning of the term slow combat. Lets not go there again.
Dennis

[Terrence Durrill]

Dennis,  if you are looking for top modern performance in combat, you probably would not use a Fox .35 stunt.  However, if you want to experience the T-Square of the late 1950s, in other words, a nostalgia experience, you should absolutely use the engine this plane was designed for and was flown with at that time.  I lived those years a long time ago and enjoy going back there from time to time.  But, be that as it may, to each his own.......TDurrill               

[dennis lipsett]

Dennis,  if you are looking for top modern performance in combat, you probably would not use a Fox .35 stunt.  However, if you want to experience the T-Square of the late 1950s, in other words, a nostalgia experience, you should absolutely use the engine this plane was designed for and was flown with at that time.  I lived those years a long time ago and enjoy going back there from time to time.  But, be that as it may, to each his own.......TDurrill               

Terrance. I also am old enough to have flown all of these old combat jobs  and did fly them in the day  However a Fox 35 on a combat job was never part of my past thankfully, and I have no wish to ruin my past.

Dennis

[john e. holliday]

Mine was powered by the old McCoy .35 Redhead.

[Mike Scholtes]

Well, I do have both the Fox 35 and ST35, but the ST is more fun and has no way to attach a muffler, so that's the more "nostalgic" combat experience! No wonder the neighbors called the cops when we flew in schoolyards back then. I have had the ST since new in 1960 so it has a special place in my heart and in my hearing loss. It powered a slew of VooDoo's and self designed stuff in its day.

[Terrence Durrill]

Even Riley Wooten used the Fox .35 stunt to power his first published combat design....the PIRATE (see Flying Models ... June 1955).  Riley didn't enter competition combat events to lose and he claimed very good contest results with the PIRATE in 1954 and 1955.  He said "the PIRATE has placed first or second in every contest entered...winding up with its streamer intact"!  When I was flying competition combat in 1954 and 1955, I admit that I was using K&B .35 greenheads.  Of course, I did not own a Fox .35 at that time and would not until the Summer of 1956.  Today, my collection of Fox .35 stunt engines numbers 28.  I built a PIRATE in 1955 and used the K&B .35 greenhead for power.  It was too much power and the wings folded during tight maneuvers.  I have the original article and full sized plan for the PIRATE and hope to build another one soon. This time I will strengthen the wing and yes, use a 1955 model Fox .35 on it just like Riley used on his.  I do suspect Riley warmed his Foxes up a little bit, but that is another discussion for another time.  This discussion has raged through these forums for years but regardless, the Fox .35 was a very good engine for its time and for the uses it was designed for.  No other control line engine can match its record of use from 1948 through 2012 and still going, regardless of the Fox haters who have tried to discredit it........TDurrill        

 P.S........Maybe builditright will consider kitting the PIRATE sometime in the future.