ORIGINAL: rainedave
Technically, that's probably true Ed. However, there are several forty-size genuine pattern designs from the '70s. I guess around the time of the gas crunch the prices of balsa and glow fuel began to climb. There were a number of "economical" pattern designs published during that era, the goal being to allow modelers to compete with a smaller investment. I have no idea how successful any of them were. But, if a Super Pacer competed in a contest would that make it a pattern plane? I mean, Toyota Camrys are winning NASCAR races.
David
Jim Kirkland's Mustang X was a serious attempt at .40 sized patternships. I don't recall him winning enough contests with it to make it a notable pattern model. But there is much that I do not know.
I'm not down on .40 sized patternships that much anyway. It is the smaller models that I do not recognize as "real" patternships. Again, I do not know everything and I do know that in some countries you had to fly in the .25 size class while working your way up to larger engine powered models. So, somewhere in the world, there most likely are true patternships in the smaller sizes.
The only Southern R/C Bobcat kit that I am familiar with had a constant chord wing. The larger model it was allegedly copied from does not. Therefore, it doesn't appear to me that the Bobcat was a scaled down Tiger Tail because of the wing differences. Let's talk it over, whoever said that the Bobcat was a scaled down patternship. I'm just trying to boost dialogue, not say anyone is wrong - or even right.
Ed Cregger