Pat Daily

THREE years ago our club, the D.C. Maxecuters, decided to hold a World War II Combat event for rubber-powered scale models at our annual summer contest. We decided to use an adaptation of the very popular Flying Aces Club (F.A.C.) rules for the Thompson Trophy Races, which involve mass launches with the first plane down dropping out of the competition until only one plane remains. In looking around for a WW II subject that would pique my interest enough to keep me building until it was completed, I stumbled across Profile Publication No. 188 on the Fiat G-50. Since I am partial to Italian airplanes (and food!), I immediately fell in love with the Fiat's fat little fuselage. I located some old plans of the Fiat by Bill Winter from the June 1940 issue of Model Airplane News. I really didn't expect much in the way of performance from the Fiat, but with some modifications to Bill's plans, I built it anyway.