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Old 08-20-2006 | 07:49 PM
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mjfrederick
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OK, I'm feeling a little sentimental after reading about all these old pattern airplanes, so I thought I might share my current project (well, one of them anyway). Attached you should find pictures of my Gator Flea. This is a Rhett Miller design. The Gator Flea is actually a .40-sized version of the .60-sized Compensator. Both designs were manufactured and distributed by Southern R/C (you know, the company that Dave Brown Products based soooo many of their products off of). We lived in Pensacola when Southern R/C went out of business, and my dad bought a lot of stuff from their inventory. When I started flying in the late 80's I dragged my dad back into it with me, and he flew the Compensator until it finally went in. I pulled this one out of the attic and I plan to do the MonoKote job the same as his old plane was... a little bit of a tribute to days past. I haven't decided on the power plant yet. I have a Saito .52 4-stroke that I might put in it. I bought a .45 YS rear exhaust, but feeling how light the airframe is, I think it would probably be more of a rocket than an airplane with that in it, but it would sure be a hell of a lot of fun...
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