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Old 02-10-2004 | 11:50 PM
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Default RE: Looking for unique Trainer Kit

unfortunately the kit is not made any mre... The Altech Tamecat was a NICE ARF or ARC.

Has the looks of an F-14 from profile. Very distinctive in the air.

Fortunately... its not hard to "bash" a GP PT040 or PT-60 (or several others) into a look-alike.

There is an effect of the super-wide fueslage to be aware of in the kit-bash... the shape of the fuselage inherantly pulls the rear of the airplane DOWN. to counter this, the main wing is at 0 deg, the horizontal stab is at +3 deg (thats right ... angled UP at the front) and teh engine is at a whopping 9 deg downthrust.

Works best with a flat bottom airfoil so you don't have to play with a contoured wing saddle. But if you want to do the work for the semi-symetrical wing... go for it.

The wide body is easy... the fuselage sides are cut down with a straight line from top of the original firewall to the tailpost. They stay parallel to each other all the way back. 1 inch wide (.40 size) or 1.5 inch wide (60 size) foam blocks are attached to the outside for shape. (The angle of the fake air inlets is cut prior to affixing the foam...) You can sheet the foam or just cover it. (heavier but sturdier if sheeted I recommend 1/16 light balsa sheeting)

I'm going to try to get my scanner to work and post the 3-views from the kit instructons. (I have my original Tamecat ARC fuselage right beside me NOW. My plane needs some wing repair from a mid-air. Probably easier to make a new wing)

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can't get the blasted scanner to scan. [:'(]

do a web search on TameCat and you can see some pictures of them. Turns out that the AMA has the plans for it available. Published the construction article in June 1990. Plan number 654 (E) (E is the price code... $22.50[X(])

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Fixed the scanner... was a corrupted driver (newer item's driver overwrote the scanner's Twain file)
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