derekmac

I just bought my first plane, a Skyward 25, partially built with Great Planes floats, and when going through the box last night, I noticed that the stabilizer and rudder were missing for it.

Does anyone have any info so I could build my own? I've tried searching for info on Skyward to ask them, but can't really come up with anything.

Here are a few pics, and I'll try and get some more tonight.

Iron Bottom

I remember that brand name, but never saw one. I remember them as being an early ARF, although they could have been kits. The only thing I can suggest is to go to the RCM Plans site. Go to requested articles and toward the bottom of the page there are some design your own articles by Chuck Cunningham and Ken Willard. Good luck finding plans.

EDIT. I couldn't see what was left in the box. Are there any 1/4 X 1/4 ore 1/4 X 1/2 sticks in the box? These sticks may be the material to build the stab and fin.

tailskid

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Did you get any plans with the plane? I remember training a couple people of theirs and it was a good trainer!

derekmac

No, there were no sticks in the box, just some left over balsa from the cutouts. I'll see what I can find on the plans site.

No, no plans came with it, only the instructions.

derekmac

I also now trying to figure out the colors I want to put on it. I'm thinking either Cub yellow for the body and wings, with transparent blue where the openings are in the wings, or as my son really wants green on it, doing the body green, and the tops of the wings bright red, with the bottoms red and white checkered. Any ideas, please throw them my way.

Here are a few more pics of it.

JRgraham

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Looks like someone needs to resurface their work bench

You shouldnt have any trouble scratch building the stab's(tail fins), its a small plane, nothin to it

Neat little plane, good luck with it.

derekmac

Haha, yeah I actually have a sheet of aluminium to cover it with, just haven't gotten around to doing it yet One of these days I'll clear it off and put it down.

I can't wait to get it all built, and watch someone that knows what they're doing fly it I'm going to get a sim soon to get the feel for the sticks. I've tried the Realflight 6 demo with the keyboard, and have no problems flying/landing, even with the winds turned on, but I've been flying flight sims since the 3.5 floppy days with a keyboard, so I'll be interested to see how I do.