Senior Class D Stick (oz8734)

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Senior Class D Stick. Rubber competition model.

Quote: "Some call it skill, others call it luck, but there is a lot of both involved in setting a National Record. The particular record we are talking about is the flight of 16 mm 47 sec made by the model pictured here. Various modifications of the same model have been winning contests for the past several years. This particular version seemed to fly better than any of its predecessors and in its first major contest proved this point completely.
The flight took place just after noon, at a contest sponsored by the Linden Model Airplane Club at their home field. The model flew into a rising air current just after the prop folded. The thermal took it up to around a thousand feet and kept it there for a good part of the flight... Every model builder's dream is a plane that will set records like this one, but the average builder finds from experience that it can't always be done because no one plane is so far superior to all others that it can out-fly them every time. Therefore we don't claim that building this particular model guarantees winning every contest entered. Workmanship, the propeller, adjustments, and most of all the luck involved in catching thermals all contribute toward a model's ultimate success. However, if you construct this ship accurately and adjust it correctly, you will have as good if not a better chance..."

McLafferty SR Class D Stick MAN December 1945 scans.

Hi All - Scanned from my original issue of MAN December 1945 is George McLaffertys' Senior Class D Stick rubber model.

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