Toothpick (oz5342)

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Toothpick. Control line combat model.

Quote: "Both speed and agility can be had in one hot combat ship. Toothpick, by Dick Tyndall.

IT ALL BEGAN at a contest, As my father end I were unpacking our air-plane, we noticed a yellow blur buz-zing around in the combat circle. That blur turusd out to be Larry Scarinzi flying his new Super Satan (oz8661). Fascinated by its high speed and tight turning. I decided right there I had to have one.

Thus, I began designing what was to be the first Toothpick. When my father saw the completed plane, he looked at it carefully, flexed the wing, and said: Man, that thing is gonna fold up like a toothpick. So that's how the plane was named. And it did fold up like a tooth-pick, but only after proving it was fast and its turns were extra tight.

The next Toothpick had some center structure changes, and the LE was changed to a piece of 3/8 x 3/8 x 36 in spruce - which really made the big difference. That ship went right where I wanted it to and wasted no time getting there. And the outboard wing stayed where it belonged.

At the season's first contest. I heard a comment: Hey, look at the splinter this guy's got. Word soon got around about a funny-looking, long-wing combat job that was going to be flown, so my father and I decided to get in a Practice flight The next few minutes were breathtaking and e v e ry o n e watched! By the end of the contest. Toothpick had managed a third place, including a five-second kill on an open flier.

Since then, the Toothpick has been modified to the design shown on the plans. The pacifier tank, in my opinion, is a must for the serious combat flier who wants the utmost performance. Some people wonder why my runs are steady, flight alter flight, while their pressure tanks vary the needle valve setting so much. The only way that they will find out is to try one themselves.

One arca for experiment is the propellers and fuel, which make a big dif-ference in whether the airplane performs well. Some fliers use nylon 9 x 7 propellers, because they don't break when they hit the ground, but that -doesn't necessarily make them the beat prop to use in the air..."

By Dick Tyndall, from American Aircraft Modeler (January 1971).

Direct submission to Outerzone.

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