Hi,

Nice to read about Prettner's Curare. Brings up old memories. I built one myself in ealy summer 1977 from Model Air Plane news plan (dec 1976 issue) in about 3 weeks (I spent all time I could get finishing it). I used a Graupner "Cirrus" sailplane canopy as canopy for my Curare and it looked very good. I painted it in some color scheme I found from some TOC in Las Vegas competition plane (I think it was some Kristensen, forgot his first name but I think it was Ivan). Anyway, my Curare had a Rossi 60 with pipe and with servo adjustable needle. Goldberg retracts and EK-logictrol Super Pro 7 ch RC system. I had the flaps slightly modified so the elevator and flaps cooperated, like a line control plane had. I had it for some years and competed some with it. Last flight in summer 1979 ended with a disaster since radio contact was lost and it flew right into a tree (right in to the tree trunk) and it was only small pieces of balsa and foam left. Engine was still sitting into the tree trunk. Reciever, battery and servos was just junk. But I still have the transmitter even today (I have many times thought I would try to get a new reciever, some new servos and a battery pack and try to get the radio to work again just for nostalgia). Before the Curare I had a Mach 1 and that plane was also a beautiful pattern plane. I remember those days as it was yesterday and I had great fun building and flying these pattern birds.

God luck with building the Curare!

/Bo (from Sweden)