Hi Will,
thanks for your thoughts. Some further comments inline below.
ORIGINAL: flywilly
Hi David,
the best way to determine would be to compare the MK kit with the Hobby Barn kit (and yes, I have both). I have to believe that something happened when the mold for the glass Magic was created.
I see, that's certainly possible. Question is whether the HB mold was made from an MK fuse or whether it was a scratched fuse which had some issues. As far as memory serves, the Magic is pretty straight forward as far as the fuse is concerned - a rectangular box with a fin and a mini turtle deck. Topping that is the long glass deck that enclosed the pipe and optional pipe extension. Of course that is overly simplistic and all sorts of things could have gone wrong to result in a Tragic. It would be pretty hard to compare a HB fuse to an MK fuse unless they were both built and side by side. However, perhaps you could drop your fuse on the MK plan and see if there are any gross discrepancies... if the plans and fuse are readily available of course.
ORIGINAL: flywilly
Certainly, I can't believe the original had issues since Hanno won with it.
Yea, that's my thinking too. But then again, he probably would have won with just about anything, provided he had the time to trim it out.
ORIGINAL: flywilly
I have never seen an MK Magic fly, and only one Hobby Barn Magic which flew well, as I recall. It belonged to Willie Macek (he built a pair of them) and was powered by a YS 60FR - they were heavy, I think Willie told me about 10lbs, but he had a lot of success flying them.
Whoa, that is heavy for a Magic. Then again, he had monster power so perhaps it didn't suffer too much. We could probably build glass/foam ones today around 8 lbs I would think.
ORIGINAL: flywilly
It is a very cool looking design and with the mixing capabilities of current radios I'm sure even the 'Tragic' could be made to fly quite nicely.
-Will
by the way, MK also kitted a glass fuselage version of the Magic - I have a photo from an old MK catalog. Since MK is now out of business, maybe Chip can contact them about purchasing their mold (if it still exists).
It is a shame as I have more of a fondness for the Magic than the Curare. I guess I was just seduced by Tipo's as a kid and then, right around the time when Hanno came to Mexico to fly the Magic, I was living there and busy flying mi own stuff! Funny thing is, the summer of '83 I think I went to Europe during the world's... too bad.
It was a sad day when I heard MK went out of business. Great parts and accessories too. It would be amazing to recover any IP from MK. Buying an MK mold for the Tragic might just be Magic...!
David.