Scat Cat high speed flutter
12-18-2009, 11:42 PM
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RE: Scat Cat high speed flutter
The only date on the scat cat plans is 1979 in reference to it wining the q500 nats that year.
Lousy weather here. It will be a few days until any flying takes place so when I get a chance to try out a few things I'll let y'all know what we find.
thanx for all the help
Lousy weather here. It will be a few days until any flying takes place so when I get a chance to try out a few things I'll let y'all know what we find.
thanx for all the help
12-18-2009, 11:45 PM
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RE: Scat Cat high speed flutter
Replace jet 50 with a TT40, no more flutter
Very tempting if I knew of an airframe that was as fast that flew as well
Very tempting if I knew of an airframe that was as fast that flew as well
12-19-2009, 07:06 PM
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RE: Scat Cat high speed flutter
ORIGINAL: GREG DOE
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Spickler's Quickie 500 was the origional class racer on the west coast that met with wide spread success. Glen, who was very active in NMPRA, and one of it's early presidents saw the need for a low key entry level event, and decided to kit his design, which was actually presented in RCM as a construction article for a fun fly airplane. Just like Club 40 today, Quickie 500 caught on rapidly. Interestingly Glen Spickler (and a lot of us) campaigned against adopting Q-500 as a national event, because we all knew that eventually it would no longer be an entry level event. Spickler also kitted a Quickie 200 for 1/2A racing, and a boat for the K&B outboard engine. Does anyone know if Glen is still around? Most areas that did class racing with the Spickler also used K&B 8011 (later the 4011) engine. So it was common to here the event referred to as Quickie's and K&B's. I can't tell you exact dates, but I would guess that Spickler's Quickie 500 pre dated the Scat Cat by at least 10 years, maybe more. Greg
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Spickler's Quickie 500 was the origional class racer on the west coast that met with wide spread success. Glen, who was very active in NMPRA, and one of it's early presidents saw the need for a low key entry level event, and decided to kit his design, which was actually presented in RCM as a construction article for a fun fly airplane. Just like Club 40 today, Quickie 500 caught on rapidly. Interestingly Glen Spickler (and a lot of us) campaigned against adopting Q-500 as a national event, because we all knew that eventually it would no longer be an entry level event. Spickler also kitted a Quickie 200 for 1/2A racing, and a boat for the K&B outboard engine. Does anyone know if Glen is still around? Most areas that did class racing with the Spickler also used K&B 8011 (later the 4011) engine. So it was common to here the event referred to as Quickie's and K&B's. I can't tell you exact dates, but I would guess that Spickler's Quickie 500 pre dated the Scat Cat by at least 10 years, maybe more. Greg
You probably didn't know this, but I'm originally from Bakersfield, and my dad and I had belonged to the same club as Glen until we moved to AZ in '84, and I didn't start racing until '88. He hadn't really been involved in flying for several years before we moved. Unfortunately Glen passed away a few years ago (maybe 3 to 5 years?).
Gary Schmidt
12-19-2009, 09:27 PM
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RE: Scat Cat high speed flutter
Gary,
Thanks for the response. There was a Formula 1 Championship Race in Bakersfield about 1976. I
came to that race and got to visit Glen at his home, and see his kit business. I learned a lot of neat
tips,and tricks from that visit. Greg
Thanks for the response. There was a Formula 1 Championship Race in Bakersfield about 1976. I
came to that race and got to visit Glen at his home, and see his kit business. I learned a lot of neat
tips,and tricks from that visit. Greg
