RE: Violett Pattern Prototype - Blast from past
I was trying to tell people about that one when the Bobcat came out. You can't help but notice that the Bobcat is the same plane, albeit much updated, and Bob sort of paid homage to himself, he remade his first DF model in a new modern way.
You can say what you want about Old Bob, for better or for worse, but you can't take away his many contributions to this hobby. He has been at it a long, long time, and has approached each problem with a methodical and uncomprimising approach, like making his own fans and engines and retracts when he could not find really suitable units. Great stuff. Also, you can't overstate the importance of the lightness approach he took to DF models in the Eighties...he looked around, and saw that if he could shave a couple of pounds from the birds, it would be a free ride to a whole new level of performance, so he went carbon fibre crazy and it really changed everything. Go Bob!