Pat Johnston's Epiphany

[Mike Griffin]

This is a picture of Pat Johnston's Epiphany.  Has anyone built the glow version of it?   I think this is going to be my next build.

Thank you for any help

Mike

[John Leidle]

 Mike,
  Seems to me Pat had a Magnum .53 in his Epiphiny . Also another one around here  was yellow if my memory is correct might have  been owned by Dave Gardner had a Double Star .60 in it..
        John L.

[BillP]

I don't know about it but what are the specs? It looks interesting. Where are plans available?

[Dennis Saydak]

With a little tweaking of the rudder and some war paint it could pass as a Spitfire.

[Randy Powell]

Pat has done several versions of this design. There has been a full fuse version and a couple of sizes of profile and a twin. Pat is fond of using the OS.46LA with a fairly small venturi rather large APC prop. I believe he used a Magnum .53 on one full fuse version. Not sure what else. Pat and I flew together for many years and he is clever designer.

You can order plans from Pat at patsplans@yahoo.com

[wwwarbird]

 Good looking design. Redraw the vertical fin and you've got a Spitfire. 

[Mike Griffin]

I have always like those elliptical wings.  It does look a lot like a profile Spitfire.

Mike

[Mike Griffin]

Pat has done several versions of this design. There has been a full fuse version and a couple of sizes of profile and a twin. Pat is fond of using the OS.46LA with a fairly small venturi rather large APC prop. I believe he used a Magnum .53 on one full fuse version. Not sure what else. Pat and I flew together for many years and he is clever designer.

You can order plans from Pat at patsplans@yahoo.com

Hi Randy,

I will either use a OS LA.46 or a Super Tigre .46.  Don't know which yet. 

Mike

[SteveMoon]

LazerWorks.com offers a laser cut short kit of this plane.

Steve

[Randy Powell]

Pat also offers a laser cut short kit. Or did, anyway.

[Steve Berry]

For what it's worth, I do have CAD plans for it that hes sent me some 20 years ago. Freely he gave and freely I can pass on, u less of course he says "No."

Steve

[Steve Helmick]

The Epiphany that I saw was full fuselage. It went from Pat to Dave Gardner to Pete Ferguson, which is where I actually saw and launched it for Pete...at the old "Mattress Factory" parking lot site. As I recall, the plane survived that day's outing, but sometime later somebody (?) tried to do the pattern with a bad NV setting and it sadly became an Ex-Epiphany. Don't do that!  Steve

[Dave Gardner]

Yes, I had the Epiphany ('Piph', as Pat called it...) and it flew very well....and very pretty, too!  I had lent it to Pete, since he was out of airplanes.  At an earlier Stuntathon, Pete took off with a poor needle setting, but rather than fly it out, he attempted to continue the pattern.  I don't remember the maneuver, but the poor NV setting became a 'shut-off' setting.....at an untimely pattern location, and the airplane was disassembled with an abrupt meeting with the tarmac.  It was very well built, but not repairable!

I got the engine and tank...and other wreckage bits.....but never attempted to replace the bird.  Pat has plans, in AutoCad and .pdf formats, from a previous posting below.