New here. Flew control line as a kid and again as a younger adult, but have been out of it for about 15 years. Decided to build a tribute control-line Starduster Too to replicate the one my dad finished in 1972 when I was a child. My goal is to build a semi-scale replica that will resemble dad's plane and fly. My second goal was to use only stuff I had in storage and spend zero dollars building it. It has a 44" top span and will be heavy so I built it around an old Saito .56. Used two-view drawings of a Starduster and calipers to scale it the best I could, although I had to take some liberties. The cabane struts are actually bamboo chopsticks I found on my workbench (great epoxy stirrers). All of the blocks (nosebowl, rear fuselage top) were from old Skylark blocks I had in a box (why did I have so many Skylark tops, I can't answer, but they were all super-light balsa). Dad made a straight turtle deck on his Starduster rather than the hump, so that is what I am doing. The next to last picture is dad's plane. The last photo is the plane today, residing in Idaho with new fabric and paint. Still have a lot to do and not even sure it will fly. I've enlisted Joe Gilbert to make the test flight when completed.
Topic: Starduster Too control line build (Read 1064 times)
