Something Special (oz9245)

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Something Special. Radio control aerobatic sportster model, for .61 power.

Quote: "A Christmas Treat! Build this attractive 65 inch aerobatic sportster. Something Special, by Brian Peckham.

Most of my models have been powered by 35's or 40's, and my fellow fliers kept telling me: What you need is a .61 powered model - you'll never fly anything else. They are right, and I'm hooked.

So, having acquired a .61, the next step was to design an aeroplane to fit. I started with the wing and, having established the plan form and section, tailplane and control surfaces areas, I grabbed a pile of scrap paper and worked up freehand sketches approximately to scale. Then some 1/8 scale sketches until the shape coincided with the mental image of what I wanted. Now some scale sketches, bearing in mind the construction, from here to the drawing board proper, scaling up the sketches and adjusting for final shape and bulk in order to achieve the projected CG position.

The sketches were made over a period of several weeks, and different approaches tried, all being re-examined after a time and all eliminated - except one - presented here as 'Something Special'. But now to the nitty gritty.

Construction. Copmmence with the fuselage sides, from 3/16 in hard sheet; they can be cut from one piece of 48 x 4 in..."

Something Special, Radio Modeller, December 1974.

Direct submission to Outerzone.

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Article pages, thanks to RFJ.

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