Jemco PT-19
A good friend of mine was on a job installing alarm systems when he came upon a client who gave him a Jemoc PT-19 with a Saito 4 stroke that he hadn't flown in years.
It was described to me over the phone as having a low wing and two cockpits so I knew it must be a PT-19. It was covered in Coverite but someone in the past had gone so far as to paint it all a dark blue color. On the first trip to the field we fueled the plane and got it running again. Test flights showed a good flying plane but it needed some work as the ailerons had an excessive gap with slow roll rates.
The more we looked at the plane and the original paint scheme, the more Rudy wanted to recover the wing. Rudy has been an ARF pilot for the whole 2 years I have known him and he always was amazed at the covering jobs I had done on my own airplanes, proclaiming that he could never learn to cover a model.
Well, folks, Rudy got so tired of the dark blue and it's difficulty to see in the air that he went down and purchased a few rolls of yellow Monokote and did a spectacular job stripping and recovering the wing on his PT-19! While the rest of the model needs some work, he's planning on redoing the tail surfaces and bringing it back to a scale configuration with proper spinner and all.
Lads, we need to hold our glasses high and drink a toast to this ARF pilot who braved the trends and learned the old ways of model building.
Here's to you Rudy, thanks for giving it the ole college try!
Cheers,
Tony