Baby Biplane

The plans for this were featured in Flying Models magazine a few years ago. It was originally designed for the K&B Infant engine.  Mine is powered by a Cox Tee Dee .010.  It is overpowered with the .010.  A lot of fun.

 

 The Starduster 900, designed by Sal Taibi.  Covered in red silk.  Fox 35 power.  I flew this at Waywanda, NY.  I had to stop testing when I cut my finger on the propeller while removing the glow starter.  I will be flying it again as soon as my finger heals.

Little Red Twin

 

This is the Little Red Twin designed by Keith Laumer.  A kit is available from http://bmjrmodels.com.  The free plans are available from http://outerzone.co.uk.

Power is a Cox Pee Wee .020.

The Major

This is The Major, from the Scientific Model Airplane Company.  I purchased this WWII era kit at Hobbyland in Hackensack, NJ in the 1960's, when I was 12 years old.  I never finished building it then, but kept the plans.  I finally built it in 2020.  Wingspan is 25 inches.

I have flown this indoors at the Teaneck Armory.  Hit the rafters one time.  A great flyer.  Power is 2 loops of 1/8 rubber.  The next indoor flights will use one loop of 1/8.

I flew outdoors at Barron Field in Wayanda, NY.  It flew very well.

Beech Staggerwing

From a Dumas kit.

Peck-Polymers Mitsubishi Zero Peanut Scale

Peck-Polymers Clipped Wing Cub

Peanut scale from the Peck-Polymers kit.

Peanut Scale Ganagobie

Ganagobie, a French homebuilt.  This is a peanut scale from a discontinued Peck-Polymers kit.

The Avro 560.  Model designed by Bill Hannan.  The plans are available at http://outerzone.co.uk. Winspan 18".

Roscoe Turner Meteor

Rubber powered Meteor, built from the Easybuilt Models kit.

Lunchbox Hand Launched Glider

Plan downloaded from outerzone.co.uk.  An 8 inch span glider.

Hungerford Trimotor

Jetco Lark

The Mini-Maxer, from the Sig kit.

Power pod for Genesis unsuccessful

I completed the power pod, but it was unsuccessful. The electric motor was not powerful enough, and I couldn't get the balance correct.  Back to the drawing board.

I am working on a power pod for the Genesis model sailplane. I will post pictures when I can.

This is the Korda Victory, built from a kit from easybuiltmodels.com. The span is 32". I substituted Esaki tissue for the domestic tissue included in the kit. I also switched the propeller to a Peck-Polmyers prop. I also tried a Czech P-30 prop, which worked well. I am flying this on two loops of 3/16" rubber. I had to shim up the leading edge of the wing, and add some downthrust, and a little tail weight to trim it. I also replaced the plastic wheels in the kit (heavy) with balsa wheels.

The performance is amazing: this model flies the way you dreamed your models would fly when you are a kid. In the small fields near my home, I can only hand wind this with a few hundred turns. Any more, and I would lose the model. I will be adding a pop-up wing dethermalizer (Ed Schlosser, Best-By-Test style). Next summer, I will be taking this up to the Brooklyn Skyscraper's field in Wawayanda, NY, where I can really wind up and let it fly.

This is the Genesis covered. The model was covered in white Silkspan (the lightest weight), and finsihed with Nitrate dope. There were two coats of clear, and three coats of clear tinted with transparent red dye. This dye is sold as stain for electric guitars, and worked well with dope. It is available from www. stewmac.com.

A close-up of the servo installation in the Genesis. Two spruce cross pieces are glued into the fuselage, and the servos are held in with screws.

I originally tried mounting the servos in the wing, but I could not get the controls to operate properly with the elevon mixing feature on the transmitter.

I had to replace the "X" shaped servo arms with the long arms (with one arm cut off) in order to get enough travel on the elevons. These arms come with the servos, and are also available as a spare part.
The control rods and the rest of the hardware came with the kit.