Mister Mulligan (oz2387)

About this Plan

Howard DGA-6 Mister Mulligan. Free flight scale rubber model.

Quote: "Mr. Mulligan by Dave Rees. A classic racer from the 1930's with that peculiar combination of flyability and just the right amount of realism. A winner!

In our present World of permissiveness, the very mention of something that is banned almost assures its popularity. Movies are banned, books are banned, Miss America's pictures are banned, and the owners of these commodities can't get a truck big enough to haul the money they make to the bank, This model falls into that category: perhaps it will also cause a reverse psychology.

Actually, Mr Mulligan deserves to be part of the FAC scale movement for a better reason than the result of inverse psychology: it is a very good flying model. The founding fathers of the FAC disbarred the Mr Mulligan from entering the Thompson Trophy mass launch events (radial-engined racers only) because they felt it would have an advantage over the other types. This may have been true eight years ago when FAC scale was just catching on, but one look at today's event and the way airplanes fly makes us stop and think again. I believe the time is right to let the Mulligan race.

Meantime, while the FAC thinks it over, the Mulligan can legally compete in Golden Age mass launch and FAC scale events, albeit with a very low handicap in the latter. The problem is the lack of an up-to-the-minute design that fits the special needs of the FAC flying events. I looked up many while doing research for this plan, but they all lacked that peculiar combination of fly-ability with just the right amount of realism that works for FAC events. Many of the older Mulligan plans are badly out of scale, while the newer ones lean towards the other ex-treme, being heavily detailed and accurate, making them more suited to AMA rubber-scaled events where these things are rewarded. Finding there was no solution, I set about making up my own version.

Mr Mulligan has a lot going for it as a subject and I believe it can be in that exclusive group of planes like the Lacy, Cougar, Tailwind, etc which deserve to be part of every flyer's repertoire. It handles brisk wind beautifully, responds predibtably and slowly to adjustments, and has no trimming vices. The airplane can be built light without sacrificing strength or appearance details due to the excellent original layout. The all-white color scheme is rare and makes the finish easy while somehow maintaining a unique beauty and charisma. The moments are great, the design is rugged, and there is room for an enormous rubber motor. The landing gear is not complicated and won't come off after many seasons of flying.

Building this model should present absolutely no technical problems to a person familiar with scratch building from magazine plans. I have chose a 24 inch wingspan because it fits conveniently wiath available plastic prop sizes..."

Direct submission to Outerzone.

Update 30/05/2016: article pages, text & pics added, thanks to RFJ.

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