Nighthawk Sportster (oz4388)

 

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Nighthawk Sportster. Sport rubber model. Small field flyer. Tern Aero (Hi-Flier) kit no 104.

Planfile includes full build instructions.

Quote: "Cut out each part carefully from the printed sheet with a pen knife - use a new blade. Xacto blade no.11 works very well. Trim all notches closely. Put all parts aside, ready to use. Your hobby dealer has cement for balsa and clear dope for tissue.

Put waxpaper over the fuselage side view below and build two sides over the layout. When the first is dry build the other over it to match. Use a straight building board, sodt enough to stick pins into - as many as you need to hold the glued members in place.

Glue F7, F8 and F9 together. Cemment F11A parts to F11 sides and let dry. Glue F7 unit between fuselage sides F11 and add formers F10 to cabin top F17 between sides..."

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Update 30/12/2025: Added printwood, thanks to Tom Solinksi.

Quote: "Happy end of year greetings! From my collection to yours some scans of the printwood for the subject kit. Thanks again for keeping our history.
Tom Solinski"

Supplementary file notes

Printwood.

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Nighthawk Sportster (oz4388) by Vito M Garofalo 1970 - model pic

Datafile:
  • (oz4388)
    Nighthawk Sportster
    by Vito M Garofalo
    from Tern Aero (ref:104)
    1970 
    18in span
    Rubber F/F Kit
    clean :)
    all formers complete :)
  • Submitted: 16/05/2013
    Filesize: 357KB
    Format: • PDFbitmap
    Credit*: dfritzke, TomSolinksi
    Downloads: 2494

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