ORIGINAL: dadamisin
Big Bro'
Little secret - the Sea Fury was MY absolute favorite stunt model of all time too! Al Rabe was also the hardest working most dedicated and knowledgale designer I ever met. you MIGHT outscore him sometime, but you would NEVER out work him. After that Walker fly-off Al offered me a chance to fly it - I was intimidated and decliined- something I still regret!!!
A couple years back I built a TF R/C Sea Fury for an RCM kit review. Every time I look at it I still see Al's Sea Fury.
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Dennis,
If you felt that way and were not flying in the Walker Cup Flyoff in 1973, you were probably just as happy as I was when Al Rabe won the Cup with the Sea Fury.
Al's articles in AAM were great, too. He's building stunters again, but, while he may be flying, he has yet to enter a contest since his return some four or five years ago. He still experiments a lot and has shared a lot of his findings as well as pictures of his projects at:
[link=http://*******.com/a0l0]CL Stunt[/link]
Some examples of his writing, techniques and pictures are:
[link=http://*******.com/a0kh]Cockpit Detail[/link]
[link=http://*******.com/a0kj]Home made mufflers[/link]
[link=http://*******.com/a0kz]Making Canopies[/link]
He has posted quite a few more articles with pictures at the same site. Maybe, as a fellow craftsman, you'll find them interesting.