A Smoothie isn't really scale of anything that I know of. There are several profile scale (like) kits in the Brodak catalog. I prefer to get a picture book of real planes and browse through until I find something that I want to build and just go ahead and cut something out. The judges will like that a lot better than an ARF or a kit of something that's also sold as an ARF.
Your right! the Smoothie is not a full size aircraft. I understand that an ARF is not leagal for anything but FUN scale. All others have builder of the model rule. I was hoping for a kit. Of course when you cut out a set of parts you now have a kit -
How about Brodak's Shoestring.http://www.brodak.com/shop_productdetail.php?ProductID=8057 Does anyone know how close it comes to scale? I am sure it is a good flier. It looks like the right size.
The Shoestring Stunter is a redesign of the Carl Goldberg kit of the '60s. Also, the Cosmic Wind/Little Toni and the Buster. They were the three Goldberg *Goodyear Racers* and the basis for Foxberg racing that was popular a few years ago.Mary Knight entered a Buster (Brodak/Goldberg kit) at Brodak's in Profile Scale a few years ago. I am not sure just how *scale* any of the three are, but they will all fly the complete AMA stunt pattern!Big Bear
The fuselage is "more or less" 1/8 scale. The wing and tail group are significantly oversize. For a quick comparison put it next to a SIG .15 profile Shoestring.Bob
Bob,Is the wing outline about right? I would guess the airfoil is not correct. But if the outline is close it usually scores OK. It isn't that much trouble to design my own fuselage based on the scale of the wing. I have done this before. All it takes is an XL spread sheet to crunch the numbers. It looks like buying the whole kit and throwing away what I don't need costs about the same as a rib set + all the stuff it takes to build. It looks like Bob's scale doc has the 3-view and photos.
John,The span and chord of the wing are not proportional to the same scale. Using the span as the base reference, the root chord should be about 9.75 in. The kit root chord is 11.5 in. If you were to scale a fuselage based on the 42 in. kit wing it would be 39 in. long.I have the drawing package from Bob's Scale Doc. There are two decent plans in the set, one by L.G. Halls and the other by Rod Kreimendahl. Rod designed Shoestring.
John Brodak won Profile Scale at the a few years ago with a plane from his line of kits. The La-5, iIt's for a larger engine than you mentioned, but it's a proven Nats winner.
Is your Bob's Scale package P/n (11)RF84 XD? From what you say in the post it sound like this package will have enough information to design and build my own version of the Shoestring. I have good computer skill to generate rib templates. The rest is a little work on the jig saw and you have a kit. I may just go with full body and make it standoff scale instead of profile. My how a project can grow! Or I could build 2 look alikes - stand off and profile.
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