The PIPE
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Joined: 10/5/2002
From: Weymouth,
MA, USA
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Dear Fellow RCU'ers:
The PIPE Here again...and for a few years before I had to leave RC in 1986 (got back to it in May 2001), I was a Contest Director, and held a couple of four-stroke fly-ins up here in Souteastern MA, in the mid-1980s.
And just about the WIERDEST four stroke powered plane that appeared at one of my meets was...
...this HAMMERHEAD TWIN Sr. Telemaster build by one Vernon Duckworth!
Here's a closeup of the twin OS FS-60s (the ORIGINAL glow plug four stroke engine from the mid-1970s) on this "hammerhead twin"...
The plane flew with these two somewhat anemic powerplants (well, it WAS the 'first one on the block'...what could one expect???  ) and the VERY wierd SOUNDS those two overlapping wood 14 x 6 props made in flight had to be heard live to be believed.
Perhaps I might try a version of this one myself someday-I DO have a set of construction plans for the Sr. Telly-and a pair of small four strokes (a pair of Saito 50s might do the trick) could sort of "re-create" this plane for my own fun!
But then there's that LONG brewing idea of mine, for a full-blown RC FLYING TENPIN...  ...sort of a Long-Eze with a full-blown American Bowling Congress regulation tenpin set of fuselage dimensions...with electric pusher power and (if built BIG enough-at 3 times an actual tenpin's height for the fuselage length, at 45 inches) it COULD be fitted with retracts to suck up a nosegear set of retracts to REALLY show off the tenpin look in flight! Just read my "Profile" here-you'll see that TENPINS IS my favorite activity, with RC a close second!
But at least this Hammerhead Twin Telemaster IS a real flying WIERDO...unless it might have crashed  since the mid-1980s...hope not!
Yours Sincerely,
The PIPE! 
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Now I did NOT build this-but it WAS at a contest I CD'ed! - 
