Originally Posted by
JackL
Thanks guys. Chad, how it compares with the older flat-bottom Meister designs was basically what I was getting at. I don't need a totally scale airfoil, but I don't want the awful looking flat bottom of the older Meister Fw-190. I wish someone like Jerry Bates (or Chad Veich) would draw up a big Zero plan.
I appreciate the confidence Jack and the Zero is pretty high on the list of aircraft I would like to model. Indeed I started down the path of drawing one some years back but did not get too far before it got stuck on the back burner. It was a smuch smaller model however. I'm not sure I could do any better than the Meister anyway. If you look at Ken Safer's model seen below it looks pretty darn good to me. Not sure what, if any, changes he made but obviously the Meister airplane has potential. And having seen Ken's bird fly on several occassions I can offer that it appears to be VERY well behaved. As are most Zero models I think. I believe Bates is working on a Ki-43 Oscar if that might be of any interest.