Rainedave,

Deception was designed and built by Jim Kimbro in California while he was working for Phil Kraft. As part of my SPA validation quest, I located and contacted Jim and got the note that he first flew it on November 1975. The MAN article appeared in the 9/78 issue and is still available on e-bay from time to time. Jim flew his with side exhaust Rossis on a pipe. Why he called it Deception, I don't know. By the way, Jim recommended that the rudder not be extended to the bottom of the fuselage. The upper only design redcued the yaw-roll cuouple that pattern planes had back then. Mine is as per Jim's design and knife edges with no yaw-roll issues to trim out. Remember, we had no computer radios back then to overcome design defects.

The rear exhaust version is UGLY. The canopy in the photos is also used on the Bridi Escape from early turnaround days. I'm building one of these also with a backdoor Rossi.

The dihedral on the Bridi plans is wrong.

Jim is currently getting back into pattern. He and his family still live in California.

Rich
TeamVortex
Brooksville, FL

The noise comments are right on target. My plane with the OS91 and 9000 - 10000 on the APC 11/9 is extremely quiet.