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08-02-2007 | 03:04 AM
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RE: Small Bipe kit
Congratulations on a very nice GW Bücker Jungmeister EF!
Gordon's plans are excellent and I have a number of them. So far I have only built the AVRO 504, but hope to complete a Krier Kraft of his design during the coming year. Many of his plans are available from the [link=http://www.rcmmagazine.com/store/store-plans.html?sid=0001oR0FPZ7JoG0U8g0r2J3]RCM Plans Service[/link] or [link=https://sslrelay.com/s119033911.oneandoneshop.co.uk/sess/utn;jsessionid=1546b18c87257f2/shopdata/index.shopscript]Traplet[/link] in the U.K.
As for wing attachment, in one of the pictures below the arrangement that Gordon used for all sport scale cabanes from the Avro 504 onwards is shown. Nice and simple! If you have an interest in Gordon Whitehead's designs you relly should try to obtian a copy of his book, "Radio Control Scale Models for Everyday Flying". It contains a lot of information on how to build smaller scale models and I consider the book my model aircraft building bible. It is long out of print, but fortunately it has to a large extent been republished as a series of articles in the British [link=http://www.modelactivitypress.com/fs_framesetbi.htm]Flying Scale Models[/link] magazine.
I found this thread where Gordon has posted some scans of construction articles for his D.H. Tiger Moth and Druine Turbulent: [link=http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=529295]RC Groups thread[/link]. They don't write construction articles like that any more... :-(
The Flyline range of kits included many nice aircraft such as the 40" Great Lakes Trainer, the 35" Stearman C3B and my favourite, a 32 1/2" Bücker Jungmeister by Don Srull.
I have seen some of the kits for sale at ebay but there is really no need to buy an expensive kit (unless you are acollector) because the plans are available from [link=http://www.freeflightmodels.com/]Free Flight Models[/link] at very reasonable prices. The Great Lakes plan is $7.00! The Flyline kits consisted of no cut parts, instead there were printed sheets of balsa and ply that you had to cut yourself.
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