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Does anyone know if aero engineering is still in business. If not when did they stop making kits. I acquried a couple of NIB kits and was just looking for a little history on the kits. They are controline kits made from the orginal veco molds. The company was located in Birmingham, Al. Cannot find any info on the internet.
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RE: aero engineering?
I'd like to know more details of this story, too. But I think Dumas (the boat kit maker?) in Tucson had the line after Gil Henry and Veco, then it went to to Aero. My impression is that Aero didn't last all that long, and I have heard that the tooling was getting pretty bad by then. Now, John Brodak kits the Thunderbird, Smoothie and others. Brodak even has an ARF Smoothie that is very nice. Larry Richards does several, including the Squaw, Warrior, Brave, Little T-Bird, and others. I even found a laser kit of the Dakota FF biplane at BJMR Hobbies.
Two thoughts: post the same question at the Stuka Stunt Works forum-you'll get a ton of info, I think-and write Larry at [email protected] to see what he knows. Super guy and exceptional kits.
Bob Palmer, who designed many of the Veco kits, only recently passed away. He had authenticated the work that Brodak has been doing.
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Two thoughts: post the same question at the Stuka Stunt Works forum-you'll get a ton of info, I think-and write Larry at [email protected] to see what he knows. Super guy and exceptional kits.
Bob Palmer, who designed many of the Veco kits, only recently passed away. He had authenticated the work that Brodak has been doing.
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RE: aero engineering?
Thanks for the info. My uncles were big into control line model when I was a young kid. Currently I am flying helis & a texas hurricane, but was just the other day thinking I should get a control line kit again. As luck would have it a fellow at work had a couple of kits he got from a older man who was going into assisted living. The fellow with the kits was into electric and wonder if I wanted the kits. I said sure I had just been pondering get a control line model. The only control line I had was the testors p-51 mustang. I purchase of of those recently for my infant sons room. Thought I might save one to build with him when he is older. They are a warrior & mooney cadet kit from aero engineering and ole tiger from a dumas plane
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Thought I might save one to build with him when he is older. They are a warrior & mooney cadet kit from aero engineering and ole tiger from a dumas plane
Thought I might save one to build with him when he is older. They are a warrior & mooney cadet kit from aero engineering and ole tiger from a dumas plane
http://www.brodak.com/
http://www.clstunt.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi
http://www.clstunt.com
http://www.control-line.org/DesktopDefault.aspx
http://home.att.net/~philbrown36641s5/clhomepage.html
http://winshipmodels.tripod.com/ (Winship doesn't sell much anymore, but the site is full of neat
tips and info)
Try it, you might like it!
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Thank y'all for the info. Its been a while since my youth, but I still remember the childhood want to fly the big nobler with the shinny "nose cone" of my uncle's.