Lol...couple of things... I have been designing again....OMG!
As I described earlier...Now I have an almost finished ...I guess "didley" version (maybe this is what Glenn I believe meant)
Update: This I found, was a comment from Bob on another forum...my apology
of what i would call a "caracature"<sp?> of the Rumplestadt bipe...sort of a profile fuse with quickly removable nose which includes the motor, esc,receiver, battery, two servos and landing gear....WILL take off short grass..(you'll never believe what is used for tires...lol)
Intention is for use in very,very slow combat, cheap, manueverable, survivable by virtue of the entire last half of fuse, wings, tailfeathers are replacable as one complete unit in 2 minutes and that part buildable in one hour ....
whole plane including charger excluding transmitter is less than $90 with the replacable aft (the part that gets sawed/clobbered/chewed up-tell me that don't happen and I'll tell you you've never flown combat!) costing about $3-$5 in Depron (so ya can afford to build many spares while using spray bombs and markers to doll em up...or ger fancy with an airbrush)
This could be the airplane everyone could fly in combat....and there's more...the forsection as described earlier..(that contains all the flying parts less flying surfaces) is also interchangable with WWII warbird profile scenerios...and a third and forth respectively would be planes like the Yak or a high wing trainer. etc with the mid-low wingers having ailerons built into the wings and just plug up....
Pics forthcoming... this is a project born from this dear old Rumplestadt design
Now here ist the treat..
I found a site with great inexpensive pilots for this plane...whatever scale you need...and I also ran across a site for the machine guns...but lost it...maybe I'll run across it again...the guns were quite inexpensive for the detail. I >may< have been on a site like Dubro or Williams Bros ...I'll post it if I can find it if someone doesn't beat me to it
pilots
http://www.easybuiltmodels.com/spare.htm