ORIGINAL: smallcirrus
I think its very cool that somebody else is a fan of the Cold Duck my father scaled that plan to take a 40 fsr in the early seventies and then in the early eighties he rescaled the plans to suit 25 size engines. I have the original prototype of it that my father built as a construction and plan article for the magazine he published, what father did was to simplify some areas of the model yet keep all the basic charm of the original scaled down to a 25 size sports model, the one I have is powered by a 25 year old OS 25 fsr and it is still a great fun aicraft to chuck around even today.The so called Mini Duck keeps nagging at me to biuld an even smaller one for electric power,perahps one day I'll get around to that as a project.
regards
Alexis
Alexis,
I’m a big fan too but I have a little biased connection with the Cold Duck. Interesting about your father rescaling it to a smaller size and I’ve met other people that have built it from the RCM plans as well. Apparently the original RCM article made it all the way down to Australia! It would be great if you could post a photo of his article and your current Mini Duck on this thread.
Some images of the original June 1971 RCM article are below.