Whimpy (oz6124)

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Whimpy. Sport model for RC. 66in span, 580 sq. in area, for .10 - .25 power and 3 channel RC. Model # pl-585. Designed by Roger Tennyson. Featured in RCM 1-75.

Quote: "Tired of the same old thing? Try Doc Tennyson's change of pace, and come home relaxed instead of being tied up in knots.

It was time to go back to basics, and find out whether or not I had learned anything in thirty-some years of modelling. It was time to build that graceful free-flight type of model which I as a kid used to watch as it circled gently in the sky.

Well, balsa was less expensive then, but I get a bigger allowance now, and with the R/C equipment available, an airplane like the 'real models' of yesterday could be built and flown safely today, even in our restricted areas. It was time to pay off the debt I owed myself for sitting on that running board, broken prop clutched in my sweaty little hand, wishing, just wishing, that one of those 'model airplanes' was all mine.

While 'Whimpy' is not a difficult airplane to build, it is not a short project. The act of building was intended to give me pleasure, and I hope you approach it in the same light. I have in the notes on the plan given the information necessary to construct the frames - what follows here is the assembly procedure that I used, and you may find it a bit less time consuming if you follow the suggestions - but you don't have to, if you insist as I do on doing evereything the hard way!

Fuselage. Snce I find it extremey distressing to finish up an evening's labors by looking at a crooked fuselage, I suggest that after you have completed the side frames and have added the 1/32 plwood doublers, you start erecting the fuselage by..."

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