That was me. I loved the Airsail Chipmunk, when mine got a bit worn and scraped I sold it and took the money straight down to the model shop and bought another one - in 30 years of model flying that is the only plane I have ever bought twice, which tells you how much I like it. The kit has been improved since the early days, the plans now show a mod to the wing to have flaps and there are a couple of addendums to the instructions to tidy up some items.

The elevators are very prone to warping, so in the next one I will make the core from sheet rather than a strip outline as the kit has. The aft fuselage took on the starved horse appearance when I tissue and doped it, as the formers are far between and the dope cause the sheeting to warp, next time I will epoxy-glass it or use non-shrinking dope.

I used a Saito 65 which was huge power for the model but that allowed it to fly at very slow scale speed as entry into loops and then throttle up and use the power to haul it up around the loop. It was very large for the cowl and I had to remove the rocker covers to squeeze it in. When I get around to building the second one I will use a 54fs or an RCV58CD.

Harry