All time great planes…

Great Planes - Shoestring Racer 1/4 scale (artf), my favorite model and still going after 12 years on its original Irvine .72 !
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JonTappin wrote: 2 I flew that are now available as kits from PB models

I had a Chevron built from the MAP kit back in the '80's. Foam wing and polyester fibreglass fuselage. This would have been my third model after a Ripmax Trainer and cant-remember-it low wing trainer. I remember it being tricky fitting the firewall into a glass fuselage with all the bolt holes and plumbing holes in the right place and fitting it so the spinner ended up square to the nose ring. The tail was just a flat sheet glued to the fuselage with epoxy.. It only lasted a few flights before the tail departed company at about 400 feet. Lesson learned...do not use epoxy resin on a polyester fuselage.

Wasn't it an MFA kit Mike?

I think I remember the bulkhead install being pretty fiddly, I did do mine with polyester resin though!

I converted mine to a taildragger so I could put retracts in it, looked great with the wheels up. Got some photos somewhere, I will try and find them.

That's right, Jon...MFA. Well remembered. The bulkhead was probably glued with epoxy and then reinforced with fillets of polyester and chopped glass. I'm sure this survived the crash.

All being well there will be a Bullet at Cashmoor tomorrow - mine. Actually my second, I built the first one in around 1977, amazingly my "new" one is using the same engine as inhabited number 1, an OS 40, and by the sound of it it still has the original bearings.

I flew the original in Jersey :woohoo: have press cuttings

Started digging through some old photos to find one of my Chevron, now I have found one, I really wish I hadn't sold it!! Mind you, if I had kept it it would probably be completely rotted away by now



Really did like this model, it really taught me a lot.

Also found some other old favourites

Double vision, 2 x OS40's, went like stink, Mitch and I both built one. Another one I wish I hadn't sold, I think Mitch still has his. These would have been taken early 80's, we looked so cool :lol:

Touché

This is the Aurora copy, did a couple of seasons in F3a late 80's then a few more years flying formation aeros at Sandown for the Macgregor Team, sold this as well!

Kraft Superfli, struggling to remember who's kit, powered by a Webra 61, there were a few of these in the club. Flew mine to death, still have it in the loft, never had the heart to chuck it away.