Seversky Executive (oz3955)

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Seversky Executive. Scale rubber model. Here is Herbert K. Weiss' Seversky Executive from Model Airplane News magazine issue 07-39.

Quote: "A sturdy realistic fine flying three-wheel landing gear ship that you can build easily and quickly. Seversky Executive, by Herbert K Weiss.

The latest Seversky 'Executive' incorporates a retractable tricycle landing gear, one of the first on a really high-speed ship of the fighter class. (That inimitable Dutchman. Tony Fokker had one at the last Paris show.) Fowler flaps are incorporated. Standard equipment includes two-way radio, automatic pilot, de-icer equipment and a complete layout of instruments. The ship is designed for a 1200 hp. Twin Wasp under the new NACA nose-slot cowling, and a huge spinner superstreamlines the nose. Outer wing panels are interchangeable with panels of larger area including bigger gas tanks to boost the range from 850 to 2000 miles. Ship seats four normally.

Yeah, pal, you guessed it. How many 'executives' in the United States have businesses that would justify one of these delicious go-buggies? Jimmy Doolittle and a couple of others have booked orders, indicating that this new ship will follow Seversky pylon-to-pylon, city-to-city and coast-to-coast tradition. But when we look at those performance specifications: 330 mph. top speed, 300 mph cruising, 2900 ft/min climb - you know, with modern fighters getting faster and faster and landing speed going up and up, we're willing to bet that when there get to be more hot ships than super pilots it's going to feel mighty good to the not-so-good reserves to have that ground-stable tricycle under them, not to mention the stainless steel belly-skid. Oops, we forgot - the Executive is being built as a 'commercial' ship. Or did we?

Anyhow, you go about building your own Private Parlor Pursuit in the following fashion. Start with the wing.

Wing: The wing is made in one piece for strength. You can lay it out over the plan, putting a piece of waxed paper down first, of course, and just pin the pieces to hold them while the cement is drying. The trailing edge is cut from 1/16 sheet balsa, and you can trace the outline on the balsa with a piece of carbon paper if you don't feel quite up to the surprisingly easy job of cutting it to fit by eye. If you want to be sure of getting your wing panels alike, you can also trace the wing layout on another sheet of paper, placing the carbon sheet face up under the blank paper, so that your tracing is reversed. Sounds complicated but try it and you'll get the idea. Then just paste your tracing against the right wing half on the plan, and you'll have the full wing layout.

We found that the wing of our model was plenty rigid without a main spar. However, many model builders prefer to build their wings with leading edge, trailing edge and main spar, and you can increase the strength of your wing by adding the spar shown on the plan..."

Direct submission to Outerzone.

Update 17/7/2025: Added complete article, thanks to DPlumpe.

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