Advantage 2x2 meter F3A Pattern
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Joined: 4/12/2002 From: South Deerfield,
MA, USA Status: offline
I have one of these kits which I've started. It's all wood and of good quality. You need to have some building experience to complete it properly. If you do, it is not at all difficult to do.
I plan to build it "like it was." That is, with a good 2 stroke .60 and a tuned pipe and retracts. There's something about those older pattern planes...
There was a glass and foam version also. I have a completed one in need of "restoration" that was given to me. It is also of good quality, but, I think, heavier than the wood version that I'm building will be. The glass fuse is "substantial."
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Joined: 8/28/2002 From: miami,
FL, USA Status: offline
WJ : I'M a proud owner & flyer of a dirtybirdy. Model has about ten years with me. All wood , very strong, presently flying it w/os91fs I had a st60w/pipe... but the os91 is the best for this birdy.Flew it A week a go @ a pattern meet in Ocala Fl. Try to get one.... you won't regret
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Joined: 9/13/2002 From: Monson,
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A very good friend of mine, in a very successful attempt to get me hook on pattern, gave me a Dirty Birdy he had built with a 91 Surpass in it. This Dirty Birdy had a fiberglass fuselage which he had modified to include a belly pan beneath the wing to encorporate an open pipe tunnel. The 91 Surpass was fitted with an O.S. flex header and a silencer (very quiet setup).
This plane was built as a tail dragger with retracts. Very cool airplane. I immediately fell in love with it and have ever since been hooked on pattern.
I've tried to include a photo of the plane and if anyone is interested I can post a picture or two of the underside showing the tunnel, header and silencer.
Being flying Dirty Birdy's for several years now in SPA Pattern. My sig pic is a DB. What I've seen is some confusion over the Dirty Birdy and a later design Joe did that allowed the incorporation of a pipe which the Dirty Birdy did not. In any case one of the distinguishing features was the vertical fin LE which is concave in the DB but straight in the later design (I believe it was the UFO but I'm not sure on that). Anyway, I've seen several of these at least one of these at a contest listed as a Dirty Birdy which it is not.
Attached is a pic of an all-wood (not a kit) DB under construction for a friend. It will be using an OS .61 FX or an OS .91 Surpass. HE hasn't made up his mind yet.
No, the big MOKI is NOT going in this airplane! :-)
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Joined: 9/13/2002 From: Monson,
MA, USA Status: offline
CurtD,...
I am curious to know where you got the fiberglass cowl for the Dirty Birdy 60 that you are building?? Typically "wood" Dirty Birdy's had wood cowls, EXCEPT for the Dirty Birdy 40 kits which came with glass cowls.
Yes,... my Dirty Birdy is a bit confusing since it has a diferent shape rudder, NO sub fin, as the depth of the fuselage was increased to include the open pipe tunnel.
And yes,... to the best of my knowledge the anhedral stab was a UFO and XLT feature only.
In any case here is what the 91 Surpass looks like mounted inverted in my Dirty Birdy.
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