One Flawless ARES

[Don Jenkins]

My friend Keith Palmer just finished scratch building a beautiful ARES.  He is clearly a master craftsman and has been building for about 50 years, but mostly RC scale and RC pylon racers.  He flew CL combat many years ago and did some CL sport flying, but he recently got the control line bug and learned the pattern with a 20 year old Ringmaster (by the way one of the nicest Ringmasters I have seen) he had lying around.  He got in the maiden flight yesterday on the ARES, and it flies well, although the wheel pants got scratched on the second flight when the engine quit while inverted and Keith did a miraculous job to save it, but the landing was a bit rough.  Turned out to be a bad "brand new" glow plug in the Fox .35.  If I know Keith, he will probably have the wheel pants repaired by the end of the day.  Enjoy the photos of a "20 pointer"!

Don

[Scott Richlen]

Nice!!

[Ken Burdick]

what a great looking stunter!
let your friend know that the good ol Fox .35 likely vibrated the element out of the engine. Fox .35 is like a Harley....they make a nostalgic sound but shake a lot.

K

[john e. holliday]

I love it and he is a master with the finish.   

[Will Davis]

I have seen Keith's Ringmaster and combat planes . They are some of the best finished and built models I have seen, right up there with Charlie Reeves , Roy Decamera and Joe Adamusko .  With simple clean  paint themes,  well built and expertly finished models, even the combat planes .

You know the models,  that makes just you keep looking at the details ... I can't wait to see the Ares

[Les McDonald]

That really is a nice piece of work, great paint.
(I normally try not to be critical but I'm pretty sure that's way to much rudder offset)

[Randy Cuberly]

Yeah, Magnificent airplane.  Get rid of that Rudder Offset.  Never get it trimmed with that rudder offset!

Randy Cuberly

[Bill Little]

A great looking Ares!  The Ares is in my top three all time favorites.  As a kid it was my #1!!
Tell him, great job!

BIG Bear
RNMM/AMM

[wwwarbird]

 Great looking plane but yeah, need to back off that rudder, a lot.

[RknRusty]

It's got a lot more elevator area than stab area, Is that unusual?
Rusty

[john e. holliday]

That was typical for the day.