VRCS 'Top Dawg' Contest - free plans
Interesting to see the Top Dawg design again. Back in the late 60's, the Spirits of St Louis RC club used this plane as a club pylon racer using stock OS 15 or Supertigre 15 engines only. This was a howling success with about 30 of the Top Flight kits being built and one member (Art Biehl) going into "mass production" on the planes. It is also a great sport flying airplane.
A note to Mike Taylor: The Top Dawg will roll very nicely on rudder only (no ailerons) if built with the stock dihedral and flat bottom airfoil and using a 15 engine. We had a fun fly contest back then in which one of our up and coming young fliers won the "most rolls in 2 minutes" event by doing continuous rolling circles with his Top Dawg pylon racer!!! (Rudder, Elevator and throttle only). I have an original Top Flight kit and am considering using a geared Astro flight 020, on 8 to 10 cells and a 8" inch prop. Our 15 powered racers were almost all using 7-6 props.