Whoa!!!! I thought I was the only one in the world that ever heard of a Pagan. I bought mine at Toledo when I was 12, that was my very first pattern plane. I have a picture of me holding it somewhere but I can't find it right now.

Interesting plane. I loved mine. But I take it you used polyester resin, because nothing would stick to it

Mine was powered by a (get this) Fox eagle 2 on a tuned pipe. Man you talk about POWER. It would put Webras and Rossis to shame! My father was an old Fox guru from the 50s so he could really make one run....not too many people could. The neat thing about the Fox was that is was a long stroke engine in the days of revvers...and it would still out turn most of them. Unlimited vertical. And that plane was every bit of 9 1/2 lbs....

I loved the way it flew. I wanted to fly pattern SO bad, but the guys at my local field just hated that plane and gave my father a bunch of crap for "letting me have it" (one of them actually called him at home and tried to get him to make me sell it)....pffft I bought that plane with my own money, built it myself and flew it, so he told them to go jump...but just wouldn't support the whole pattern competition idea so I was stuck. Hard to get to a contest at 12 when nobody will drive you anywhere....LOL Also hard to get any coaching when everyone around you flies cubs and thinks you have no business flying a plane that will actually do more than 30mph.

As you can see I made up for it later. *ahem*

But thanks for a cool plane that I could actually find and afford to get, it's because of that plane that I returned to pattern so many years later in life!

-Mike