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Old 09-30-2003 | 05:49 PM
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Default RE: What Was The Most Difficult Kit ?

The 1959 (?) 3 ch. ( no ailerons) Sterling Monocoupe. Why, because I bought the kit in 1962 and started construction shortly thereafter. Moved the half finished kit over 3 or 4 states and several households during the last 40 years and still have it in the basement with the wing and tail nylon covered but not the fuse. Meanwhile, a fellow worker sold me his unflown but finished Sterling Monocoupe which he had made with a flat wing and ailerons, four channel. I flew that for years including off frozen lakes and finally crashed when I changed engines and forgot to put the lead nose weight back in. Great flyer as it tracked like a pattern ship with zero dihedral. Sold the remains to a fellow on the internet who just had to have one because he and his father had built one when he was a kid.

Will I ever finish and fly my original Monocoupe unfinished after 40 years? Maybe, if I could get one of those Berkeley Aerotrol radios that it shows on the plan to install with the rubber band escapement!