Dave Brown did the Illusion himself and was a modified Tiporare, which is why the name of the plane is Illusion. WK never kitted the Illusion and GP was the first to due so. Bill Elliott that owned WK Hobbies (for one reason or another) turn the rights over to Great Planes for the Tiporare. Dave Brown modified the Illusion to match what was coming out of the MK kit camp as a effort to meet the changing flying style of pattern flying that was taking place for the time era.

Dick Hanson did his own thing with the Tiporare line and came out with the Tipo 750, Tipo +, Hipo Tipo and Tipo surpass just to name a few. Some of the changes that Hanson made to the Tipo line were longer fuses, different wing tapers, more wing area, optional straight stab vs. anhedral (which required raising the stab, and if you have a fiberglass fuse, there were 2 guide marks molded into the side to determine the stab placement) to more fuse side area. The only Tiporare that did not resemble the classic Tipo lines was the Tipo Surpass. The Surpass looks like a early modern 2 meter plane. I have been lucky enough to have had all of these planes with the exception of the Hipo Tipo which had a funky indent in the side of fuse for the tuned pipe.

I am a firm believer in when you choose a classic design.... stay true to it. It is easy to loose sight of what these planes really are. Part of the fun is if you stay true to the design... you get the true feeling of what its like to be "Back in the day". The Tiporare was a top dog for the time it was designed for, that being the "pattern" being flown at that time (in stock forum.) Dave Brown along with others proved it at the Nats. When the times changed... so did the planes. The funny thing about the Tiporare is it is just a modified Curare.