A 54” wingspan  575 square inch, full fuselage Grumman F8F Bearcat. The airplane is designed as a sport scale airplane. The plans show the shape of the elevator to give a scale shape airplane. The wing is sheeted with 1/16 balsa, the fuselage is strip planked with 3/32 balsa. This is a .45 to .60 size airplane, do not try to fly it with an old weak .45. It will be great with a newer .50 to .60 engine.  The airplane will be able to stunt, but will not be an airplane for flying a pattern in competition. It will be a fun sport flier, a Sport Scale competitor, or it can be built to be a Scale competitor. The laser cut kit comes with full size CAD plans with templates for all the parts. The kit does not contain any control system hardware or a canopy. The builder will have to cut the planking strips from the sheet wood supplied in the kit. The first kits will sell for $195.00 postpaid in the continental US.

Thanks Wayne, other than the elevator fore and aft dimension it is scale. I wanted this one to be a good sport airplane but be able to compete in sport scale. Got the shapes from a 1949 BuAer drawing.

Pat