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Old 11-23-2010 | 01:20 AM
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Hi Jeff,

I am pretty sure that plane was made by a company called Wolf Pak ( not sure of the spelling ...Pak ..Pack or.. Pac)in the mid eighties I believe.. I had the shoulder wing version which was called a Shrike. I am sorry I can't recall the name of the low wing kit. The one you have is precisely the same as the Shrike other than low wing. The kit came without full sized plans and was very well cut and engineered to go together without needing full sized plans. I was skeptical of that claim, but found it to be true. The spars and ribs went together egg crate style, much like some of the laser cut kits do now. That was new to me at the time. I think the kit was hand cut, no die cutting, all parts were in finished form sanded and ready to use. It was a good sport flier, not unusually fast even though it resembles a Quickie . The low wing version would have been similar. I think I had just a K&B 40 on mine. The way the gear slides into a slot was the key to identifying it for me because there were a lot of similar looking sport airframes.

The shoulder wing Shrike had that curved section of the fuselage on top rather than on the bottom like the one you have and I believe the two versions were done by simply flipping the fuselage, wing saddle up or down. It probably only required different fuselage sides to make the switch.

Chuck