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Royal Rodent Rat
Bob Heywood:
Royal Rodent was my first Rat Racer, circa 1961. 8-bolt Fox 35 Combat Special power. Easy to build. Good, stable flyer. Lots of fun.
Paul Smith:
In the early 1960's Harters offered the Royal Rodent, Regal Raider, Student Price, and Count Clipper, plus the pan alone.
I think the pan was $2.95. the Rodent $6.95, and the Raider $7.95. I never saw anybody buy or build the Student or the Clipper. But lots of people bought the Rodents and pans.
I bought one Rodent, then used the pan for a bigger rat when the original top wore out. A club member tried to use the Raider proto but it didn't go well. He sold it to me cheap and I used it for a rat until I crashed it in 1973. The 125 square inch proto wing was just as fast as the 80 square inch rat wing. It was hard to get high enough to pass with the Rodent wing.
Later on 40's got bigger and they burned too much fuel. The Harters pan didn't fit anymore and the price of rat went up.
The Goldberg Skat Rat was not worth anything against pan rats.
I still have my 1970 Harters pan rat in flyable condition.
Paul Smith:
Do your remember the Outlaw Rat. It was kitted by (maybe) Flite Line Products.
It had a vertical engine mount with the sheet metal gear attached under the engine with long bolts and extra nuts. The engine mount and fuselage were a pair of 1/2" x 3/8" hardwood engine mounts.
doug coursey:
we flew the regal raider in rat race with the super tiger
Paul Smith:
Good times, eh? $7 airplane, $25 for a G21/40. Maybe another $10 for Don's wheels and a bongo drum. Yellow Tornado 8/8 (no cost if taken from a combat plane).
$42 for as good a rat as anybody.
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