Forney Aircoupe (oz4055)
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Forney Aircoupe. Control line model from Scientific. Wingspan 17.75 in, wing area 51.2 sq in, for .049 to .099 engine.
Direct submission to Outerzone.
Update 11/7/2024: Replaced this plan with a completely re-drawn version from scratch, in vector format, thanks to Mark Gerber. Also added decals.
Direct submission to Outerzone.
Quote: "Hi Mary, Here's another plan I drew... this is a builder plan of the Scientific Aircoupe that I drew up using a kit I found on eBay. It supplements the Forney Aircoupe (oz4055) kit instructions you already have on Outerzone. I've also included a scan of the kit decals and an image of the kit box.
There is some debate about whether it's an Ercoupe or Aircoupe. The Ercoupe was originally manufactured before WWII by the Engineering and Research Corporation (ERCO) hence the original name. After the war ERCO sales boomed for several years then dropped. ERCO stopped production after manufacturing about 5,000. For almost 10 years manufacturing rights for the Ercoupe passed through several companies until Forney Aircraft Company of Colorado bought the rights in 1955 and resumed production in 1958. Forney renamed it the Airoupe, but production only lasted a couple of years with 138 sold. It was likely during this time or soon after that Scientific issued their Aircoupe kit. In 1964 the Alon Corporation restarted production making 145 before being absorbed by the Mooney Aircraft Corporation in 1967. Mooney redesigned the twin-tail Aircoupe to become their single-tail Cadet. So, only the planes made by ERCO are considered 'Ercoupes' with those made by Forney and Alon being 'Aircoupes.'
Keep up the good work there at Outerzone. Regards,"
Note Have shuffled these files around now. The 'previous scan' version of this plan is now the 'instructions' file.
Update 16/7/2024: Have revised the scaling on this plan, thanks to MarkGerber. Now fullsize at 17.75 in span.
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Instructions.
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(oz4055)
Forney Aircoupe
by Walt Musciano
from Scientific (ref:S-78)
1965
18in span
Scale IC C/L LowWing Civil Kit
clean :)
formers incomplete :(
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Submitted: 22/02/2013
Filesize: 494KB
Format: • PDFbitmap
Credit*: wsmith, MarkGerber
Downloads: 1823
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