Cleveland Speedster (oz14383)
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Cleveland Speedster. Rubber speed model.
Note the Cleveland Speedster design was first published in Frank Zaic's 1938 Yearbook. This here is a modern redrawn plan.
Quote: "Hi Steve, Attached is a drawing for the Korda Cleveland Speedster. It is a CAD drawing [vectorPDF format] from the 1938 Zaic yearbook. Unfortunately I do not have any pictures of the airplane, but the second page of the drawing has CAD images. I did the CAD work. Rich Wegener"
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(oz14383)
Cleveland Speedster
by Dick Korda, Richard Wegener
2012
16in span
Rubber F/F
clean :)
all formers complete :)
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Submitted: 07/02/2023
Filesize: 580KB
Format: • PDFvector
Credit*: Rich Wegener
Downloads: 279
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Good Morning again from Windy Oklahoma City. Please find attached a photo of the original Cleveland Speedster drawing from my most prized college text book - page 107 of my ORIGINAL, AUTOGRAPHED copy of Frank Zaic's '1938 Model Aeronautics Yearbook' [pic 003, 004]. Note in the original drawing the fuselage is sheeted. Please forgive me if I don't break the binding to make a clear copy. Thanks for all your dedicated hard work.Tom Solinksi - 16/02/2023
Tom, libraries should be obliged to route these Discards through people like us first! I hate to think what treasures have gone to the shredder and those that will inevitably follow that path. I once mentioned my concern to a library director and basically, he said a public library has requirements and management methods that are different from a book museum, All the while he was pressing me to enrol in a library science course!
Miguel - 16/02/2023
Hi Tom. Thank you for the info!
However, I don't agree that the original shows the fuselage as being sheeted. Three reasons: 1) There is no notation referring to that. 2) The wavy curves, I believe, come from the note on the wing top view that says "Light lines show paper grain" and 3) If the fuselage was sheeted, why the "1/16 fill-in" in the forward bays?
BTW - I've built and flown at least 4 of these (one was electric r/c with RET. They actually fly well. It is a good airplane for school-yard flying. it glides as fast as it goes up. I flew mine with a plastic P-30 prop. Kind of a hoot, actually.
Richard W. Wegener - 18/02/2023
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