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Old 12-20-2010 | 02:17 PM
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Default RE: GP Waco?

The WACO YMF-3 and YMF-5 is the most beautiful biplane to ever sprout wings!

I bet $10 this is the Cox ARF. 

Cox bought Pica, and for awhile sold a 1.20 and a .60 size ARF of the Pica kit.  Then Hobbico bought out Cox.  I campaigned Hobbico to revive this ARF so you can thank me very much.

On the other hand, after nearly five years of hoping to find one of these beauties, I gave up.  I finally located a very old Pica kit of the .60 size, and commissioned Bill Phillips in North Carolina to build the airframe for me.  I'm now finishing it out.  I can't say I wish I had waited because the model that Bill built for me has some re-engineering in it that will make it superior to any ARF.  Even so . . . . .

By the way, there's an ENORMOUS thread on this model and other WACOs:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_40..._1/key_/tm.htm

                             Mike