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Title: Whatizit ?
Post by: Dennis Leonhardi on April 23, 2023, 08:26:21 PM

Just about the time you think you've seen everything ... well, I found this in a stash of kits.  Whatizit!?!

Thanks!

Dennis

Title: Re: Whatizit ?
Post by: Doug Moisuk on April 23, 2023, 09:14:57 PM

Thimble Drone 049 trainer parts. The wing was like a rubber ducky. Was the forerunner of the Cox PT-19. I learned to fly on that rubber ducky wing.

Title: Re: Whatizit ?
Post by: Dan McEntee on April 23, 2023, 10:03:37 PM

 There was a TD-4 trainer that resembled this, but the nose of the TD-4 was a little different. It had a rubber band mounted wing, and fill flying stab, and the engine mount could be adjusted for how much down thrust you wanted. I have a TD-4, but have never seen or heard of what you have there.
   Type at you later,
    Dan McEntee

Title: Re: Whatizit ?
Post by: Mark Mc on April 24, 2023, 06:15:36 PM

Those are indeed Cox TD-4 parts.  Missing the nose that rotates up and down to switch between beginner and expert modes, lower fuselage to hold in wing, and stab.


(https://2img.net/h/i32.photobucket.com/albums/d26/batjac/DSCN1475_zpsug9dpe52.jpg) (https://s32.photobucket.com/user/batjac/media/DSCN1475_zpsug9dpe52.jpg.html)



I got one years ago off of eBay, but didn't want to fly it and possibly damage it.  So I made a replica in balsa.


(https://2img.net/h/s5.postimg.cc/dhl839ck7/DSCN4934.jpg) (https://postimage.org) (https://postimage.org/)



Mark

Title: Re: Whatizit ?
Post by: Mark Mc on April 24, 2023, 06:16:57 PM

Quote from: Doug Moisuk on April 23, 2023, 09:14:57 PM

Thimble Drone 049 trainer parts. The wing was like a rubber ducky. Was the forerunner of the Cox PT-19. I learned to fly on that rubber ducky wing.

That wing was indeed rubber ducky.  I can take mine, even 65 years old, and twist it 45 degrees in either direction.

Title: Re: Whatizit ?
Post by: Dennis Leonhardi on April 24, 2023, 07:12:28 PM

Thanks a bunch, guys!

Dennis

Title: Re: Whatizit ?
Post by: Will Hinton on April 24, 2023, 08:31:42 PM

I really got excited when I saw the title of this thread!  I learned the pattern on Riley Wooten's Whatizit so thought that was what this thread was about.
I later, like twenty years later, used one in our local combat meets.  (It was a nostalgia class.)  what a fun design and so easy to build right and light.
Sorry guys, don't mean to try to steal the thread. D>K

Title: Re: Whatizit ?
Post by: Dennis Leonhardi on April 24, 2023, 08:50:44 PM

Quote from: Will Hinton on April 24, 2023, 08:31:42 PM

I really got excited when I saw the title of this thread!  I learned the pattern on Riley Wooten's Whatizit so thought that was what this thread was about.
I later, like twenty years later, used one in our local combat meets.  (It was a nostalgia class.)  what a fun design and so easy to build right and light.
Sorry guys, don't mean to try to steal the thread. D>K

One of my favorite airplanes - built it when the Cleveland kit came out, K&B Green Head Combat .35 up front.  Love the name!

Dennis

Title: Re: Whatizit ?
Post by: Will Hinton on April 25, 2023, 06:06:47 PM

Dennis, that's the same power I was running, except it had been reworked by Duane Cassa while we were in Navy Memphis together, he as a Marine and me in the Navy.  He was a very special guy.