Focal Point 2014/07
Earhart Electra
Herb Cain (113 Chelsea Place Ave., Ormond Beach, FL 32174; email: [email protected]) drew the plans and built this 1/8-scale replica of Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra Model 10E Special.
- Span: 83 inches
- Weight: 19 pounds
- Power: two NGH GT17 gas engines
- Radio: Futaba 70
- Equipment: electric retracts, full running lights, flashing locator beacon, landing lights in nose timed to retracts
Herb wrote: “I attempted to build the model to be just as the NR16020 plane was with all the modifications [Earhart] made to the stock Electra and with all the same markings. The drawings were done as close to scale as possible to the point that all bulkheads and ribs are the same shape and even the same location as the Earhart Electra. Need I say this was a very challenging but interesting build?”
Fokker Spin
Tim McKay (77 S. Evergreen Ave., Unit 302, Arlington Heights, IL 60005; email: [email protected]) designed this semiscale RC Fokker Spin.
- Wingspan: 28 inches
- Weight: 2.8 ounces
- Construction: balsa and plywood
- Gear: landing gear from 0.032-inch music wire
- Radio/equipment: ParkZone ultra micro RC equipment
- Notable features: no vertical fin; upper and lower all-moving rudder replicated with a rudder dowel and 1/32-inch plywood retaining washers
Tim’s Spin handles well indoors and outdoors in calm wind. More information is available at www.IndoorFlyingModel.com.
Bravata
P.M. McGuigan (4102 Carriage Hills Dr., Rapid City, SD 57702; email: [email protected]) submitted this photo of his 30cc Aeroworks Bravata lifting off the water of New Underwood Lake in western South Dakota.
- Configuration: floats (maiden flight on floats after nine flights with landing gear)
- Weight with floats: 19 pounds, 11 ounces
- Power: DLE 30 gas engine
- Radio: JR equipment
- Notes: about one month to complete this Aeroworks ARF
Sig Kavaliers
Jessy Hannon (100 Fenwick Ct., Lexington, SC 29072) shares his two Sig Manufacturing Company Kavaliers.
- Orange Kavalier: 25 years old, powered by an O.S. .45, uses a Futaba radio (built from a kit)
- Red Kavalier: new, powered by an electric motor (scratch-built)
Piper Cherokee
Darren M. Gibson (email: [email protected]) built this Chin Model Aircraft Piper Cherokee Arrow III Turbo to resemble a Canadian trainer aircraft.
- Span: 42 inches
- Power: EMAX BL2215-25 brushless motor
- ESC: SuperTigre 30-amp
- Radio/servos: Futaba 7C radio, four Hitec HS-55 servos, Hitec micro receiver
"I wanted a plane that would be easy to see. The bright yellow and red MonoKote should really stand out," wrote Darren.
Kaos 60
Morris Duet (11202 Amethyst Tr., Austin, TX 78750) built his Kaos 60 from a Tower Hobbies kit.
- Construction: wings fully sheeted; airframe covered with silk and painted with Klass Kote epoxy
- Controls: one servo per aileron
- Engine: HP .61 (30–35 years old), turned 90° for better profile and fuel-tank relationship
Morris wrote: "As far as I'm concerned, the old Pattern models are hard to beat."
Winter Projects
Jerry Kraft (109 S. Deerbrook Dr., Oregon City, OR 97045; email: [email protected]) spent two winters working on multiple models: Mustang, Corsair, Spitfire, B-25, and MiG-15.
- P-51 Mustang: Top Flite kit with razor-back conversion, signed by Ben "Flaps" Berry; span 64 inches; 15cc gas engine
- F4U Corsair and MiG-15: from old Byron kits; fiberglass with finishing resin and sprayed with Rust-Oleum
- Supermarine Spitfire: built from an old Sterling kit; span 64 inches; spring-air retracts; powered by O.S. .91 nitro two-stroke engine
- B-25 Mitchell: Wings Manufacturing kit; span 85 inches; two E-flite Power 90 counter-rotating electric motors and two 100-amp ESCs
Dusty
Bill Bowne (307 Colorado Tr., Browns Mills, NJ 08015; email: [email protected]) designed and built Dusty, a crop-duster sport model, for his wife.
- Purpose: teaching/pleasure flying (his wife learned RC in 1976 and remains an active flier)
- Airframe: all-wood, covered with UltraCote
- Wing area/span: 450 square inches; 49.75-inch wingspan
- Weight: 47 ounces
- Power: E-flite Power 25 brushless motor
- Pilot figure: "Bubba" carved from blue foam, painted with craft-store paints; sunglasses made from copper wire with a bit of green soda-bottle plastic for lenses
Transcribed from original scans by AI. Minor OCR errors may remain.
