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Title: Sig MFG - looks like they have a new plane
Post by: mccoy40 on June 12, 2018, 09:27:07 AM

All,

I was pokimg around on Sig's new web site and saw this

https://sigmfg.com/collections/control-line-kits/products/sig-berkeley-lancer

Looks cool!! I'll have to get one!

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Title: Re: Sig MFG - looks like they have a new plane
Post by: Bill Morell on June 12, 2018, 01:43:16 PM

Looks like they kept the sorta "I" beam wing. Built one many years ago. Flew pretty decent as long as you kept it fast.

Title: Re: Sig MFG - looks like they have a new plane
Post by: GERALD WIMMER on June 12, 2018, 03:43:56 PM

Hello
Thanks for the information on the new Sig kit, went looking to see if they were on Ebay yet and found an earlier "Lancer" by Mercury models looks like a spark ignition speed /sport model from the 1940's (cheap buy it now price too) https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mercury-The-Lancer-model-airplane-kit-control-line-excellent-origiinal-/352378660412.

The new Sig Lancer kit looks to be a big improvement over the Berkeley kit as far as materials and the method of build with only a cut out in the fuselage for the I-Beam and a jig style build off the fuselage and tips, read more about it on http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/control-lines-231/11635638-berkeley-lancer.html

Regards Gerald

Title: Re: Sig MFG - looks like they have a new plane
Post by: Dan McEntee on June 12, 2018, 05:01:25 PM

   These have been available for over a year. I won one in a raffle at last years SIG C/L fun fly, which is coming up again this weekend. I had ideas of having it built to take back this year but it's still in the box.  This kit and the smaller Wee Duper Zilch were mostly the work of Bob Nelson. SIG was/is the last holder of the rights to Berkeley kits.
   Type at you later,
  Dan McEntee

Title: Re: Sig MFG - looks like they have a new plane
Post by: Randy Cuberly on June 12, 2018, 05:08:19 PM

Quote from: GERALD WIMMER on June 12, 2018, 03:43:56 PM

Hello
Thanks for the information on the new Sig kit, went looking to see if they were on Ebay yet and found an earlier "Lancer" by Mercury models looks like a spark ignition speed /sport model from the 1940's (cheap buy it now price too) https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mercury-The-Lancer-model-airplane-kit-control-line-excellent-origiinal-/352378660412.

The new Sig Lancer kit looks to be a big improvement over the Berkeley kit as far as materials and the method of build with only a cut out in the fuselage for the I-Beam and a jig style build off the fuselage and tips, read more about it on http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/control-lines-231/11635638-berkeley-lancer.html

Regards Gerald

The original Lancer was intended as a Combat plane in the middle 50's.  Great flying airplane with a Johnson light case 35.  Today it would probably work well with one of the .25's  OSLA or FP as a stunt trainer or fun flier!
They were spectacular in a combat mid-air collision...about a thousand pieces floating down from on high!
 LL~ LL~

Randy Cuberly