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CoosBayLumber -> RE: Build your favorite vintage aircraft from kit plans (5/4/2008 3:33:44 PM)
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Have been doing this for more than a dozen years now. I think the S.A.M. folks began doing this to the greatest extent back then. For is possible to create what is noted via an original kit or from original plans, and those guys tend to know the difference too.
What is generally not mentioned is that "First" thing I hear within 2-3 days after delivery is that Parts don't fit. What they generally did was to pop out the parts then side them into place on the plan for comparision. I let them know to measure overall height and width to the topview and sideview and make another comparision. And, then get back to me. Somewhere along the line he forgot to notice the little N.T.S. note at the typical section.
Or, if the original designer or drafter is still alive they get contacted. "How come the wing has a chord of 9 inches, whereas the sideview of fuselage is shown with wing being 9 3/8" long? where did the extra chord length come from?
At the indicated thread, was a mention of the Tiporare versus the Blue Angel. Back a few months ago, I contacted the folks involved in the Tipo. Go back to a 1980 issue of R/C Model Builder, and is article and plan there about the introduction of the Tipo. The plan was drawn up by Al Paterson who was on staff and paid for my Bill Northrop. Do not know exactly what all was used to create the plan, but you can quickly notice the lack of details. "What size is this?"
Best that I can figure is the Blue Angel is a direct copy of the Tipo, but based upon this once available $5.75 plan. So in that way it is accurate. Now, according to the designers, that plan has numerous errors and is not the same as used for the actual Tipo mouldings. Thus the Blue Angel is not = to the Tiporare, except by inference. The plan was based off some very early wooden mock-ups, not off the fiberglass bodies.
I learned much of this when re-doing a Curare' plan and making parts. Found several plans of "Same Aircraft" but done in Sweden, Germany, Russia, Japan, U.K. and the USA. all were different in certain respects and of different eras too. Thus in one way, you are comparing Apples to Oranges. I made up a whole new plan on the Tipo only to find out this "revised" history story recently.
Wm.
Wm.
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