Piper Tri-Pacer (oz9100)
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Piper Tri-Pacer. Free flight scale model.
Quote: "An attractive scale model for point five power. The Piper 135 Tri-Pacer, by A Warren.
For sports flying from small areas, the Piper Tri-Pacer is ideal, and can be flown successfully and often with the minimum of checking and aligning. The prototype was test flown in a 15 mph wind and since then has never had a chance to show its capabilities in really calm weather. The Frog 50 provides ample power with a 6 x 4 prop.
Fuselage. Build a fuselage side over the plan, including the sheet fill-in at the tail, and then build the second side on top of the first. Separate carefully when dry, and then add formers F4 and F5 to make up the cabin box.
Fix securely while drying, and clip the fuselage ends together - do not cement ends together at this stage as the tailplane has to be inserted. Now the remaining rear fuselage spacers can be positioned, together with the small triangular top formers. When this stage is completed add 1/4 x 1/8 in strips to the cabin roof edges.
Now make up the former F1 of ply, on which the ply engine bearer is mounted by means of a mortice and tenon joint. Before cementing, be sure to drill out the holes in the two pieces to take the undercarriage wire binding thread. Having firmly affixed the wire, the complete bearer and former can be cemented in position on the fuselage, and also F2 and F3. A 1/8 in square strip extends from F1 to F3 on the top of the fuselage.
Between F1 and F3 cover with bristol board or cartridge paper; this extends down to the 1/8 in sheeting as shown on the plan. This sheeting can also be added at this stage, remembering to fix in place the press studs for the V struts.
The undercarriage is from 16 SWG wire securely bound on 1/8 ply, sized to fit neatly into the underside of the fuselage. Also on the ply is the wing retaining hook..."
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Update 21/08/2017: added article, thanks to Gerrit & RFJ.
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(oz9100)
Piper Tri-Pacer
by A Warren
from Model Aircraft (ref:227)
January 1956
30in span
Scale IC F/F Cabin Civil
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Submitted: 15/08/2017
Filesize: 146KB
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