Scarinzi Trident

[Dan Berry]

Has anyone done a kit for the Trident by Scarinzi? A friend really wants to build it but isn't up to the task of cutting it.

[Ward Van Duzer]

Yes! It was kitted back in the day...as the U-Name-It. A contest held to create the name. Trident was the name chosen. No recent kits that I know of...
Published M.A.N. 6212

W.

[Dave_Trible]

And here is a quiz for you:  who won the contest and named the plane Trident?

Dave

[George Mitchell]

Betty Adamisin. Big Art's wife?

[Dennis Adamisin]

Betty Adamisin. Big Art's wife.

Sorry, Mom`s entry, Cygnus, came in second.  Dad built two of them, named both Cygnus

[john e. holliday]

Didn't Big Art have one at VSC years ago with the their entry name on it?

[Dallas Hanna]

Yes! It was kitted back in the day...as the U-Name-It. A contest held to create the name. Trident was the name chosen. No recent kits that I know of...
Published M.A.N. 6212

W.

I was thinking that the plan published in MAN? was the U-Name-it and the Consolidated kit was marketed as Trident.

[Joseph Lijoi]

Didn't Big Art have one at VSC years ago with the their entry name on it?

Yes and if I remember correctly it had plug in wings for transport, and possibly a case.

[Dennis Adamisin]

Yes and if I remember correctly it had plug in wings for transport, and possibly a case.

Dad's first Cygnus (Trident) was built from the kit Mom won for placing second in the contest.  Two shades of blue plus white trim, powered by a first generation Fox 40, the one with the tall cylinder and the round venturi. 

Doc & Joe remember the second Cygnus correctly.  What is kind of cool is that Dad sold the airplane, and after passing through others hands, it ended up In John Brodak's museum.

Still cannot remember who won the U-Name-It contest tho...

[Joseph Lijoi]

Dad's first Cygnus (Trident) was built from the kit Mom won for placing second in the contest.  Two shades of blue plus white trim, powered by a first generation Fox 40, the one with the tall cylinder and the round venturi. 

Doc & Joe remember the second Cygnus correctly.  What is kind of cool is that Dad sold the airplane, and after passing through others hands, it ended up In John Brodak's museum.

Still cannot remember who won the U-Name-It contest tho...

At the Cloudbusters swap meet may years ago Tony Lang showed up with one of your Hawker Typhoons (I think it had yellow and black checkerboards on the bottom).  Tony had come by it somehow and was there to give it to your dad.  No telling where these things wind up.  I remember a very well done Nobler done in German camo that used to hang in some hobby shop on the west side.  I always wonder who built it.

[Dennis Adamisin]

At the Cloudbusters swap meet may years ago Tony Lang showed up with one of your Hawker Typhoons (I think it had yellow and black checkerboards on the bottom).  Tony had come by it somehow and was there to give it to your dad.  No telling where these things wind up.  I remember a very well done Nobler done in German camo that used to hang in some hobby shop on the west side.  I always wonder who built it.

Sounds like the "Heiserschmidt"  Ed Heiser was a very good stunt flyer - and great builder - who was active around the time my dad and brothers started competing.  Ed too a Nobler, use the wing and tail but built a new fuse that was longer nose & tail and used a flat top (3/4" block) andno turtle deck. I think he had to modify the fin by extending it down to the new lower fuse.  My brother said he saw the airplane hanging in a shop - bet it is the one you saw.  Any idea if it is still there?  It would be a nice classic era Nobler kit mod...

[Joseph Lijoi]

Sounds like the "Heiserschmidt"  Ed Heiser was a very good stunt flyer - and great builder - who was active around the time my dad and brothers started competing.  Ed too a Nobler, use the wing and tail but built a new fuse that was longer nose & tail and used a flat top (3/4" block) andno turtle deck. I think he had to modify the fin by extending it down to the new lower fuse.  My brother said he saw the airplane hanging in a shop - bet it is the one you saw.  Any idea if it is still there?  It would be a nice classic era Nobler kit mod...

Nice.  I can't remember what hobby shop that was but if your brother can remember I will go take a look.  There was also a large shop in Ferndale around 9 mile and Woodward that had a nice Stuka Stunt and Shark 45, amongst other stunters.  He had McCoy parts too.  That place is now a bookstore.  They took the huge railroad crossing sign an put "books" in it.