Sperry Monoplane (oz4657)
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Sperry Monoplane. Rubber scale model. This is a modern re-drawn plan.
Quote: "Hi Steve, This is my first direct submission. The Sperry Monoplane by Jed and Trudee is scale rubber powered free flight. The wing span is 20". I do not know when it was designed but has a copyright of 1967 [confirmed now]. This plan was for a very long time, distributed by Peck Polymers which is now A2Z corp. It is no longer available from A2Z corp ...I find the model very attractive and it is definitely a very good flyer. I have over the years, made two or three at peanut scale. They never failed to do 30 seconds minimum when kept below 8 grams. The first one built, did an out of sight after about 90 seconds. The second one was carried away by a creek. The third died from hanger rash. This model will not disappoint the builder if kept light and no warps. I have used these relationships for some of my own originals with good success. The enclosed file was generated in cad but it is not a vector file. It was exported as a tif from the original PDF file so as to add a border and then save with G4 compression. The result is a smaller file but it is now a raster."
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(oz4657)
Sperry Monoplane
by Jed Kusik, Trudee Kusik
from WC Hannan Graphics
1967
20in span
Scale Rubber F/F Parasol Civil
clean :)
all formers complete :)
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Submitted: 28/07/2013
Filesize: 101KB
Format: • PDFbitmap
Credit*: rchopper56
Downloads: 3334
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Hi Steve, Don't know if you want to post this or not, but I took your Outerzone Sperry Monoplane 20" rubber plan (ID#: 4657) and printed it at 200% to give me a 40" span outline. I then redrew the plan and built a 3ch. electric. Since there aren't a lot of photos of the original, I did it up in a sort of British WWI scheme. She's powered with a Firepower Speed 400, 30amp ESC on an 1800mAh (3s) Lipo. She's still a hanger queen at this time, but with a wing loading of only 11.25 oz/sq.ft., I expect she'll fly fine. Thanks for all you do to keep this hobby alive.Paul - 28/08/2015
Nice work. Since I have no pic of this model at 100%, will happily use this as the main model pic for now. Thanks
SteveWMD - 28/08/2015
The dates are correct on the plan. This was designed by my mother and father then sold to William Hannon. I've asked my father several times over the years. I just recently (July 2020) had 3 laser cut short kits made for my father, myself and daughter. Hopefully I'll have some new photos to submit in the near future. I intend on making mine a 3 channel electric park flyer.
shf - 24/11/2020
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