ORIGINAL: OverSpray
Hey Gary,
It's a Model America ARC(I think) or RC America ARC somthing like that. Maybe Rthorne will chime in here and remind me.
They are not around any more. I have been told that it is the same as the Midwest Cap 232 but don't qoute me on that. A buddy of mine built it and then decided to do somthing else. So I got a heck of a deal.
It has taken me a couple of months to get the smoke system working right. It's a TME simple smoke pump with 24 oz tank on the CG. A home made pre heater coils on the muffler a Fox remote needle valve to control the amount of smoke fluid. The best I can tell I'm using about 5.5 to 6 oz of smoke fluid per minute.
Chuck,
Thanks for ego boost. I sure do like flying it and that Moki is finally coming around so that makes it even better.
later, Ken
It's sounds like the RC America as it was almost a direct copy of the Midwest and there was some litigation over that issue.
They settled, and continued to produce them in Mexico.
There was a difference between the two, the RC America had an airfoil shaped stab, and the Midwest didn't. It used a slab stab. Midwest had a problem with them breaking off too. I'm not sure what the solution was to that problem.
Other than that difference, they were hard to tell apart.
You are correct in that it was offered as an ARC around 1997~1998.
I had one done up in the Breitling scheme (yellow and blue) and had a SAITO 300 twin in it.
It was a real sweet flier. I eventually sold mine to a fellow club member who still flies her.
