Sequel (oz9585)

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Sequel. RC pattern plane, for .60 power.

Note this design uses a foam-core wing.

Quote: "The Sequel is a pattern ship of unexcelled quality, with features that make it ideal as a first scratch-built project. Possessing no bad characteristics, it will give the novice in pattern competition a fair shake with every flight. Realizing that most magazine construction articles assume a high degree of building skill and knowledge on the part of the readers, AAM decided to present the Sequel as a step-by-step, pictorially detailed article. All the little hints are included, so that the reader who has shied away from a pattern plane can now build a competitive ship. Even the experienced modeler can gain from building a Sequel, since the performance of this bird can equal the best piloting skills...
Encouraged by a first place win in C Novice at the Glenview Nats in 1971, l set out to catch those good guys with the white hats. By mid-1972, Gary Brautigam and I had established ourselves in C Expert on the Midwest Circuit. Later, we seemed to improve our style, but we just could not clean up our act enough to breathe down the leaders' necks. Sure, we had a few firsts, seconds and thirds, but usually we fell back in the pack (about fourth to tenth) depending on the wind. When the wind blew, our scores would sag.
One problem was that we just would not settle dawn to a one-design approach. Just like little kids (we really are at heart) when we'd see Ron Chidgey fly the Tiger Tail (oz8522) that was it! So I built one, and found that, somehow, Ron put that extra something into his performance. The same with Norm Page - he could land his Mach I (oz5462) steadily in a hail-storm! Suddenly, it dawned on me that, after 31 RC ships (all different) I'd better pick out the features of all the planes I had built and incorporate them in a plane designed for my own clumsy style..."

Sequel, American Aircraft Modeler, January/February 1975.

Direct submission to Outerzone.

Supplementary file notes

Article pages, thanks to RFJ.

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