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P.S. Used to live down your ways for a few years - loved it. I miss those Sunday morning brunches at the various eateries in and around Narragansett. I attended GSO/URI for several years. Hey! do you happen to know if the Narragansett restaurant Spain is still around? The food was excellent! Rick (Free Bird) on this forum is helping us take care of the canopy aspect of these classics. He's down in CT. Maybe we could organize a RI summer 2010 MK 20 size fly in! I can't wait to have a couple of these pups on my work bench...
Hehe....of course my real name is not Rube Goldberg but rather Dave, and the Whale Tail Rhode Island came from this: many many many years ago, 'bout 10th grade or so, I had a friend that considered himself the MASTER at the board game "Risk". If you'll notice on the Risk board, there is a depiction of a whale tail off the coast of RI. So my buddy decided to get a fake ID and you got it, Whale Tail RI.
I'm in Mississippi.
Will take some photos for that conservation thread. As for props, I'm running a Master Airscrew 8X6, the same one that has been on it for a long time. Performance is great, the plane is plenty fast and the vertical lines for a stall turn are somewhere between unlimited and limited to my eyesight. It really is a joy to fly-all these years it has been one of my "hangar queens" that was never flown much. I flew it 4 times this afternoon. Of course radios have come a long way since I built it, having exponential is a wonderful thing!
Rube, er, Dave