Control Line: Navy Carrier

CONTROL LINE NAVY CARRIER Mystery Airplane took hint last column about weird aircraft likely being French designs off good start identifying mystery airplane first saw Aerocentre NC 1071 about 15 years ago took quite bit looking find three-view drawings enough additional information confirm carrier aircraft qualified events never gave serious thought building doing research quite enjoyable NC 1071 never found reference name number first multiengine jet aircraft built French dawn Jet Age 50 years ago first flew October 1948 sol included Mystery Airplane contest anniversary remembrance NC 107 ls performance disappointing slightly faster piston-powered aircraft day plans produce attack aircraft abandoned did however serve carriercapable jet trainer French Navy surprisingly few attempts identify Kaiser XBTK- 1 shown June issue guesses missed mark Walter Pleier Greenville NC Bill Heher Bumsville MN two correctly identify aircraft Congratulations go Walter winner readily identified XBTK-l because built photograph Radio Control RC model published November 1995 Model Builder Walter based model Peanut Scale design Walt Mooney published June 1986 Model Builder Walter will receive years membership Navy Carrier Society reward good taste selecting modeling subjects RC model Maybe year exposure newsletter will convince him build another XBTK-1 Control Line CL Navy Carrier Mystery Airplane month goes back year before USS Lan glev commissioned Thats hint get Good luck Send entries address listed above E-mail IFLYCL @compuservecom months photograph features couple Douglas TBD Devastators designed John Brownlee Devastator first flew 1935 first carrier-based production monoplane US Navy Its competition contract Great Lakes XTBG- last biplane torpedo-bomber design models shown built John Brownlee Pete Cunha photograph taken California WAM deck model based Goldberg Shoestring wing John put bellcrank wing Pete mounted bellcrank over wing external line guide able sweep leadouts farther aft during slow flight Quite few kits market would suitable Profile Carrier models qualify bonus points However modelers want aircraft looks like someone elses though sometimes hard tell MO-is show up Carrier contests want unique have design build model scratch possible model almost prototype aircraft Profile Carrier event using existing profile kits starting point subject months Mystery Airplane contest author gives hint its identity text wing difficult part model design build plans kit Most Navy aircraft slightly swept leading edge wing tapered planform models such Shoestring can used duplicate type wing Curtiss aircraft usually straight leading edges swept-forward trailing edges Sterling Ringmaster wing matches configuration might want model prototype straight constantchord wing could start Sig Skyray MO- 1 kits have redeeming value basis modeling prototype straight center section tapered outboard panels options available wing areas 300-500 square inches can found Grab catalog features wide variety CL models Sig Brodak favorites start dreaming next Profile Carrier model Please dont take tongue-in-cheek comments about MO-i negative Its good prototype Carrier events has since Don Gerber built first 1960s fly MO-is Ive building 27 years however plan starting new ones seek develop Carrier models interesting out ordinary Thats built Short Seamew 1973 wanted competitive model wasnt Guardian hope Im successful finding alternative MO-i Id like hear designing alternatives Take picture work share readers Model Aviation hn Brownlee Vuba City CA designed Douglas Devastators design based Goldberg Shoestring wing