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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Windwalker on December 23, 2006, 04:30:06 PM

Title: T Square
Post by: Windwalker on December 23, 2006, 04:30:06 PM

I built a few T Squares when I was a teenager. Boy that kit was inexpensive. $3 - $4 if I remember right, and very simple to build. A little Ambroid, 1/2 sheet of silkspan, 3 - 4 coats of clear dope and you were in the air. Powered them with whatever I had handy. I never flew any combat but the plane was a blast to fly. I even had one that I cobbled a tricycle landing gear so I could launch from a stooge.. I think Sterling was the mfgr. Is the T square an exstinct species or do they still ply  (no pun intended) the skies?


Nick

Title: Re: T Square
Post by: Russell Shaffer on December 23, 2006, 04:47:31 PM

I crashed mine so much that I sawed motor mounts out of aluminum.  Just unbolt them, pound them straight, and put back on.  Mine was McCoy powered, with a music wire gear bolted under the motor mounts.  Plans can be had.  http://www.controllineplans.com/frameset2.htm  Go to page 4 and scroll down. 

Title: Re: T Square
Post by: Windwalker on December 23, 2006, 05:37:56 PM

I had some McCoy engines, so I bet one of my T Squares had one on it.. Speaking of aluminum mounts. I begged an aluminum pot from my Mom and cut it up into pieces for landing gear, motor mounts, etc..  When you're a kid, anything cheap can be made to work..   :!  :!


Thanks for the link.. I think I'll order the plans and build one with the grandson...

Nick

Title: Re: T Square
Post by: Allen Brickhaus on December 24, 2006, 08:10:58 AM

Here I am with my friend George Bush, no not either of the Presidents, with my T-Square and longer tail moment at the Lutheran School in Perryville, Missouri in the early '60s. 

Allen Brickhaus

Title: Re: T Square
Post by: Tom Niebuhr on December 24, 2006, 08:26:44 AM

Allen,
I hate to say this, but which one is you?  I think someone in that picture has changed a little.

Title: Re: T Square
Post by: Bill Little on December 24, 2006, 08:29:11 AM

Quote from: Tom Niebuhr on December 24, 2006, 08:26:44 AM

Allen,
I hate to say this, but which one is you?  I think someone in that picture has changed a little.

Ouch, Tom!  :o

 **) **) **) j1 j1

We love you , Allen.  ;D

Title: Re: T Square
Post by: Allen Brickhaus on December 24, 2006, 06:29:30 PM

I am on the right.

Got guts enough to show your high school picture?

Stand up and send 'em in.

Allen

Title: Re: T Square
Post by: minnesotamodeler on December 25, 2006, 12:45:45 PM

How's this?  I ain't proud...

Title: Re: T Square
Post by: Will Hinton on December 25, 2006, 04:03:42 PM

Guys, this is really nostalgic!  I learned to fly inverted on a T square!  And with a McCoy redhead 35 at that.  I loved the F9F so much that at that time I put a high rudder with the stab/rudder on it and a month later the Whatzit came out in the magazine!  Boy did I feel smart.  (Not.)
Blessings,
Will LL~
(Maybe I can find a picture of my old days around here, but you ain't gettin' to see it.)

Title: Re: T Square
Post by: Tom Perry on December 25, 2006, 04:49:05 PM

That's not really you Ray, 'cause you were never that young.  **)  AP^