Citabria (oz15581)

 

Citabria (oz15581) by Maxey Hester 1968 - plan thumbnail

About this Plan

Citabria. Radio control scale model. Wingspan 69 in, wing area 740 sq in. For .40 to .45 engines.

Discontinued kit from SIG.

Note this is not the current kit (RC-30). This here is the plan from the 1968 kit (RC-8). This plan shows a symmetrical airfoil. The design was later revised by SIG, and from 1972 onwards used a flat-bottom airfoil. See current Sig kit instruction manual at https://wanderings-ds-2.jimdofree.com/sig-rc-kits-plan-sheets-and-instructions/ for more detail on this (page 2) :

Quote: "About The Sig Kit: The Sig Citabria, Kit No. RC-30, was originally introduced to the public in 1968. That original kit appeared with a fully symmetrical airfoil which was great for aerobatics, but proved to be hard to handle for the average flier of the time. In 1972, the kit was introduced with several changes, including the flat bottomed airfoil which it still has today. The new airfoil made the airplane much easier to fly and still allowed it to perform scale-like maneuvers..."

Direct submission to Outerzone.

Quote: "Hello Outerzone admin. After years of begging, pleading, offering untold riches in exchange and otherwise cajoling those who had what I searched, finally I got a scan of the original Sig Citabria plan. This is the symmetric airfoil version, long out of production and very unobtainable. Finally I got it. So here it is, in case there are still others looking and you can use it. Cheers,"

Note this plan is a large filesize. High res scan at 600 dpi.

Supplementary file notes

Instructions (4 pages, text only).
Instruments

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Citabria (oz15581) by Maxey Hester 1968 - model pic

Datafile:
  • (oz15581)
    Citabria
    by Maxey Hester
    from SIG (ref:RC-8)
    1968 
    69in span
    Scale IC R/C Cabin Civil
    clean :)
    formers unchecked
  • Submitted: 02/10/2024
    Filesize: 4419KB
    Format: • PDFbitmap
    Credit*: Cobra1
    Downloads: 806

ScaleType:
  • American_Champion_Citabria | help
    see Wikipedia | search Outerzone
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    search RCLibrary 3views (opens in new window)


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User comments

Dear outer zone-Team, many thanks also for this plan, great site. However - and this time it seems not to be a macOS issue - it looks like the pdf-file with the plan may be corrupted. The maximum I could see, while trying different setups (Apps and OS), was only the second page, but mostly just two empty pages, and even crashing of the pdf-app just after trying to load.
Best regards
Al DE - 07/10/2024
Works for me. It is a very large file, at 600 dpi. Essentially, if you are seeing a blank page, the problem is at your end. I know you don't want to hear that.
SteveWMD - 07/10/2024
The file downloads and opens fine for me.
Skippy - 07/10/2024
Worked for me too, in about one second. No problem
RC Yeager - 07/10/2024
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