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Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 11/4/2005 3:36:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've just finished this 50's Keil Kraft Phantom Mite. 16" span, DC Merlin 049 diesel powered. Just a bit of fun, and helps use up some of the scrap balsa stockpile................John

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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 11/4/2005 9:29:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nice!!!

Looks like a lot of fun.

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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 11/5/2005 2:58:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		Looks great John. Will be waiting for flight report.
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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 11/5/2005 4:00:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Now that's CLASSY!!! Alot of guys don't understand why some one would build something like that but man, what fun!!

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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 11/5/2005 11:40:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks guys for your encouragement. I'm honoured. Some of the older designs need to be kept alive and flying. Thats a part of the hobby I really enjoy............John

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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 11/5/2005 8:54:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm over 60 now and I remember when I was a kid, that buying a Phantom Mite kit was one of my greatest ambitions! - sadly this was never realised.
Now, after seeing this it's all come flooding back.
Where did you get the kit? or did you just build it from plans?
I would be quite interested in obtaining some (plans) if you or someone could just point me in the right direction. - thanks.

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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 11/6/2005 1:39:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		Willdo, there is a set of plans for the Phantom Mite on the Barton web site for sale.
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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 11/6/2005 2:08:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well, Phantom racing seems to be very popular in England. Anyone for Phantom Mite racing?

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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 11/6/2005 4:43:06 AM   
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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 11/6/2005 5:00:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		Nice little airplanes! When first marketed I had a youngster approach me; wanted to build a C/L model, I advised a 'Mite' and an ED Bee. He purchased both, made quite a good job of the model and then asked if I'd help him fly it. Lines out, engine checked . .then he suggested I fly it first so that he'd know it was OK and that if then dorked it.. it was his fault and not the airplane.

Took off, flew the tank out, greased it in; perfect. He flew it a couple of times, some minor damage but it flew many times after repair.. and he went on to become a very proficient pilot. About 55 years later I broke down and admitted to him that the check flight I'd made was the first-ever C/L flight for this F/F'er .........

Nice little airplanes!

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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 11/6/2005 6:07:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for the help guys, - wouldn't have believed that I'd be interested in control line again! but that simple little plane has some sort of appeal that has stirred up something from my past, - you know, like that nice girl you dumped years ago, and you think " what the h--l was I thinking" - ( maybe I'm losing it?).

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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 1/21/2006 3:12:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was doing some flying this A.M. and my pal took some snaps of the Phantom Mite, thought I'd share 'em with you........John

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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 1/21/2006 3:18:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		Wow! That brings back memories!

I had a few of those, powered by my DC Super Merlin (same as the Merlin, but with an anodised cylinder and a fuel tank bolted on the back). I well remember having to carve and sand the wing to shape from a piece of stock sheeting.

-David C.

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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 1/21/2006 3:23:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi David, its a nostalagia trip for sure! I flew 3 planes this morning, all diesel powered. Someone should make an after shave called Diesel, beautiful aroma. Sanding wings these days is a breeze with power tools.........John

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RE: Keil Kraft Phantom Mite - 1/21/2006 4:15:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ah diesels!

In the 60's I had a Rivers Silver Arrow (3.5 cc) 4 Oliver Tigers (used in