For all that are interested, I've uploaded some shots of my Miss Muffet. I designed the Muffet around '95, and bunches of them are still flying and being built here in the Pacific Northwest. I let Gus have the design for the Salient catalog, and now that I own the business, I've got the Muffet back. FYI, Muffet is an acronym that stands for Multi Use Fun Flying and Educational Tool. The one in the pics is the original .60 size (900sq. in.), with a Saito .91 aboard. Muffets will do amazing things, and are both very aerobatic and rock-stable, depending on dihedral and radio set-up. They make great trainers (that won't bore you to death while your student learns to fly), and great float planes. They've been used for camera work, aero-towing, and Sportsman Pattern. They use the same basic NACA Series 6 airfoil as the Boxer series (and the original Cursor, Meridian, Python, and Olympian), but are made semi-symetrical by the addition of a 2% mean camber line. They use the original Cursor nose and tail moments.

For eveyone's information, the Boxer 90 is still being updated, and as soon as that's finished, I'll post here. The Muffet will be next in line, starting with the .60 size. I apologize for everything taking so long, but each "update" takes about 40-50 hours or so to accomplish, and I only have so much time. Gus was using some fairly old and esoteric software in addition to an older version of AutoCAD, and there are lots of "garbage" symbols on the plans that must be removed/converted one at a time, which is very tedious. There are also many items on the original plans that are no longer available, and each construction manual is about 35 pages long.

PAC has the templates for the B-60 and B-120 foam cores (and the templates are furnished with the plans if you want to cut your own). Dean Pappas and I both think that the Boxer is a natural for electric power. Per Dean's uggestion, I'd use Jason's setup (which has been published just about everywhere but Vogue magazine) so far as motor and controller, and downsize the prop and batteries accordingly for the 60, 90 and 120. If you don't have a lot of electric experience, you would have to run MotorCalc to see about where you want to go with each size. I'd also pay very close attention to the wood selection and honeycomb the wings. The open pipe tunnel would be the perfect place to just hang the battery pack(s) out in the wind for cooling, and you could easily work out a way to change packs without removing the wing.

Over the next year, I hope to be able to do a complete 2M Boxer redesign and a dedicated electric pattern model.

If anyone has anymore questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected]

Rick Allison
Salient R/C