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RE: Cold Duck - Build - 2/7/2008 12:16:35 AM   
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RE: Cold Duck - Build - 2/7/2008 12:49:23 AM   
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Golly, you guys are making me blush!


Absolutely. Know the feeling well. This is a great forum.

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RE: Cold Duck - Build - 2/9/2008 4:24:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		The Cold Duck was my first scratch built, tail dragger with retracts plane. I put some retracts in it but couldn't get my home made servo arm extension just right to lock the retracts up and down. ( every cent of paper route money went into the Cold Duck ) I ended taking the retracts out and bending my own landing gear and made sure the wheels were about even with the leading edge so it wouldn't tip over on our grass field. My Cold duck had a new Webra .61 Blackhead that I got for Christmas in 1971. I biult the plane over the winter in Indiana then flew the crap out of it the summer of 1972. It was screaming fast ! The wing popped off one flight. For some reason I had it way up in the air. The wing fluttered down and the fuse went straight in. I knew it was destroyed. I walked a fifty yards into tall grass and picked up the wing. Not a scratch. Walked another fifty yards and there was the fuse with 12- 18 inches of its the nose buried in soft mud. The fuse didn't have any damage either. I cleaned the engine up, reglued the wing hold down plywood and was back in the air the next weekend. Great flying in those years. Nowadays I fly open class , thermal duration gliders but I do have my eye on a Patricia. Glass fuse and precovered balsa foam wing. I may have to build another pattern type ship from the seventies. I have the radios for it....



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RE: Cold Duck - Build - 2/9/2008 4:55:31 AM   
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RE: Cold Duck - Build - 2/10/2008 2:14:07 PM   
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The Cold Duck was my first scratch built, tail dragger with retracts plane. I put some retracts in it but couldn't get my home made servo arm extension just right to lock the retracts up and down. ( every cent of paper route money went into the Cold Duck ) I ended taking the retracts out and bending my own landing gear and made sure the wheels were about even with the leading edge so it wouldn't tip over on our grass field. My Cold duck had a new Webra .61 Blackhead that I got for Christmas in 1971. I biult the plane over the winter in Indiana then flew the crap out of it the summer of 1972. It was screaming fast ! The wing popped off one flight. For some reason I had it way up in the air. The wing fluttered down and the fuse went straight in. I knew it was destroyed. I walked a fifty yards into tall grass and picked up the wing. Not a scratch. Walked another fifty yards and there was the fuse with 12- 18 inches of its the nose buried in soft mud. The fuse didn't have any damage either. I cleaned the engine up, reglued the wing hold down plywood and was back in the air the next weekend. Great flying in those years. Nowadays I fly open class , thermal duration gliders but I do have my eye on a Patricia. Glass fuse and precovered balsa foam wing. I may have to build another pattern type ship from the seventies. I have the radios for it....





SGibson,

Thanks very much for sharing your experience with the Cold Duck. It is really neat to hear these stories after all these years. It was pretty fast with my old Veco 61 and after seeing how ballistic my new one is with the RJL 61, I can imagine how yours flew with a Webra. As you know the airframe is built extremely light so I’m amazed that the fuselage survived the crash.

The sixties and seventies were heady days for R/C with so many people trying new design ideas and scratch building. I could hardly wait to get my RCM every month to see the latest designs. Great memories and isn’t wonderful that plans are still available so we can revisit all of it. Looks like you have a great collection of radios too!


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RE: Cold Duck - Build - 2/22/2008 3:35:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		If anyone is interested in a scan of the Cold Duck build article from the June 1971 RC Modeler magazine, let me know.

Can anyone explain why I can't simply upload the page images as jpg files here?

Brian

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