Pipe Dream: High-performance flying wing for Speed 400s
Pipe Dream is one of Bill Winter's final designs. It is a fitting final statement, being a culmination of many thought processes and resulting in an advanced and fine-performing model, designed around the popular Hobby Lobby geared Speed 400 motor. Bill Evans, father of the Simitar series of flying-wing models, had been "after" Bill Winter for many years to design a flying-wing model. The Pipe Dream is the result. Evans remembers that the younger Winter always smoked a pipe when editing Air Trails or Model Aviation, or when writing the "Just for the Fun of it" series. Evans theorizes that all of that smoke Winter generated during that time formed into this design, so he suggested the name Pipe Dream.
Halflite
IF YOU ENJOY flying Control Line Combat, you will really enjoy flying 1/2A Combat with this high-performance model with a trainer option. The initial prototype Halflite was built in 1983. It had a higher aspect ratio. This model was fast and flew well, but it was too "squirrelly" and wasn't durable enough to be good for contests. The wider-chord wing planform and stronger construction of the current version solved these problems.
