rainedave

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from thirty years ago...

combatpigg

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uhh.......I thought this was going to be more like an announcement that they are releasing a $50 plain bearing knockoff of the Cyclon .061...or something like that .

rainedave

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Sorry, how about some Owen Kampen/Ace foam wing news:

Toad

That Upstart. is the first 1/2a pylon racer I flew. Great Memories
Thnx Raindave for that attachment.

combatpigg

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Has COX reached the point yet where they aren't sweeping metal shavings off the floor any more? I think that is their ultimate goal....what they are selling now takes no skill to spit out, box up and ship. Having machinists on the pay roll and all those machines to keep fed must have had as much to do with shifting over to electric toys as much as the shift in demand. I hope they find that there is too much competition in the electric business.
Thanks for the look at those 2 planes, the QTEE makes a decent R/E combat plane with a 36" wing.

soarrich

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There's a guy on eBay, cutting cox wing replacement cores, they look pretty nice. BTW, I've got no connection with him.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Foam-Wing-Panels...QQcmdZViewItem

build light

Those look nice and it is also nice to have a choice of density.

Robert

flyinrog

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Good news!!!! Cox has teamed up with CS to make a clone of a 50 year old engine!!!! its called the .049!!!! of course it wont be sold in America until the first 100 million of the Cox start to fade off of ebay, and they dont make glow plugs so you'll have to contact the professor on Gilligans Island and see if he can cobble one up for you out of seashells..unless Eva Grubb has some spares.....Rog

I remember when I told my ex's 10year olld daughter that I remembered when Gilligans Island came on Wednesday night at 8:00pm ..she looked at me and said "it comes on 2 or 3 times a day" and I said no I mean when it was new...she just said uh-uhh! like ..no one is that old...[X(]..Rog

propbuster

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Nice price on the Q-Tee! I think I've got plans for one somewhere, might make a nice winter project. Heck Rog, I guess I'm getting to be an old fart too! I was a avid watcher of the original Mickey Mouse club! Anyone remember the show Lost in space?

Silvaire

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The Q-Tee is a pretty simple design and quite suitable for scratch building, but if you want one and want to save some time you can buy a kit for $49.95 from Aerosphere. (That's less than 3X the original 1976 price - and it is now a very low volume production item.)

Aerosphere bought the rights to several of the designs that Dreamcatcher used to offer including the Q-Tee. Hopefully they will get around to offering some of the other Airtronics kits sometime soon.

http://www.aerosphereonline.com/

rainedave

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Nice company! And that's not an unfair price for a kit these days. The best news is that they are apparently going to re-issue Don Dewey's New Era III (20). That plane has been on my build list for a long time.

rainedave

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Or, maybe a Fred Reese Tripe designed for Ace foam wings.

Silvaire

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WOW, that's COOL! Is the plan currently available from RCM?

Arlen

Deadstik

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David,

You've got way too much time on your hands.....I can't stop laughing at the triplane... got to build one... like I don't have enough to do... wanna kit it????..... anything is possible.. you take care.. still laughing about the triplane.....


Dan

combatpigg

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The tripe takes those ACE wings to the extreme. I wonder how successful model tripes are on this scale?

skaliwag

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Strap a S/Start ( Sorry CP,,, Fora) on the front and we have a Dawn Patrol.
To be serious... Three Ace wings, that's a Simple Ultimate 150, Plus a Coke bottle on the front I would suggest a trusty NV.074 or more ... OS .15.... or .. but I'm not allowed to say it here..( sshhhhh .. OS 25 or electric wth a big prop)
Fred certainly had a knack.. Not much wood, Pull Pull, Extra incidence on the top wing so that when all else wants to stop flying the last wing will parrachute you down, Pick your own Power Plant.
I try..
Would be a cheap and fun ship.

BTW Dave..... Be carefull how you start your threads, there are a few of us around here whose pace makers are "Powered by Cox" ... Ease us in next time. I don't have a pace maker but I almost had a HOT FLASH.

rainedave

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Sorry for the scare. I've been a bit loopy (as Dave would say). The Heels beat Ohio State and Kentucky and the women got their 18th National soccer title today. That's 18 out of 25 national championships, folks. Can you say Dynasty?On top of that I was sure dook was going to lose to G'town.

Back to the tripehound. Here are the specs:

hogflyer

What airfoil was used on the Ace foam wings? I've been told it's the NACA 2415, but haven't been able to confirm that.

Hogflyer

build light

hogflyer, would you believe it if Fred Reese himself said it?
Quote by Fred Reese:
Fred Reese < [email protected] > replies to Mark D. Fain's query:

"The Ace foam wings are NACA 2400 series airfoils, .875" thick at the root. This makes them about 2415 depending on how you determine the finished trailing edge point. As provided, the trailing edge is blunt and intended for 3/4" trailing edge stock being added, after the appropriate amount of foam is trimmed off to match the thickness of the trailing edge stock.

Hope this helps. Fred Reese"

I found this Here:
http://www.eskimo.com/~smallnet/Archive/post341.html

Robert Mcham

hogflyer

BL,

Thanks for the info.

Hogflyer

ebeneezer3

I built that thing when it was published in RCM. Used an OS .15 in it. Used a cool whip bowl as a cowl. The mag article described using artists acrilic paint. Worked well. I may do it again but with more power this time. Looked good in the air. Ted

KidEpoxy

"Used a cool whip bowl as a cowl."

wow, what diameter prop would clear a Coolwip bowl and do well on a .15? Them .15s like 8" props, right..... so do you have to Texaco the heck out of it for big BowlClearing Lumber?

Raymond LeFlyr

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Dave!!! Why, oh why, do you keep coming up with designs that I HAVe to add to my already unweildy to-build list? Have you no pity? Did I offend you at the last swap meet?

I can't believe I would have bypassed a Fred Reese design for a Triplane. It must have been published during the "bad times" when I had no spare funds for model magazines.

Hmm, I'm thinking .26 or .30 four-stroke engine, built-up wings, black and yellow scheme, . . . . , aw there you go again!

Oh great! When I went to add the Fred Reese triplane to my to-build list (yes, I keep it on the PC - and in sort) I saw the Tryfund, a Peter Miller (I think) from a British magazine some years back. Cartoonish for a .40 four-stroke engine. Oh when will the pain go away?! Who is it that says, "so many planes, so little time." Amen brother!

ebeneezer3

Now that I think about it, it must have looked odd. As I remember (back in '72) it was what ever you put on a 15. 9 inch?

ebeneezer3

As I remember, whatever you stick on a 15. Nothing unusual it was back in the dirt poor, broke 70's .