ORIGINAL: cactusflyer
Ya BVMflyer......
I know whut you mean.............It all started with that Kurt Tank dude at Focke-Wulf in 1943...Just look how they Copied the BobCat . We should have nipped that one in the bud.................Uh, well, I guess we did, but I just know that Kurt baby got the idea from Uncle Bob........
That's the theiv'in bastitch holding a free flight version in the second pic...............Hey, ET, maybe you should send off far the free-flight model plans.............
Tailwinds,
John
I'll do you one further, the basic design goes back to the Opel Rocket Plane, a decade before that, even.
I have the Walt Musciano Opel Rocket Plane reduced to 18" for the jetex 50. Built all out of 1/32", covered with condenser paper, built in a single night while at Top Gun 97 at the Polo Grounds. Flew it the next day at the Jetex Top Gun thing that Dave Platt used to have early morning at Top Gun. Incredible flyer. Walt Musciano asked me for the model, so he could do an article about it, but then his back went bad, and he can no longer do articles, and it still sits in the box he sent it back to me in, some ten years later, on a top shelf in the hangar.
I have the FW Flitzer plans for jetex, too. Someday...