Hi Everybody, Dave Davis, Telemaster Sales UK.

Overbuild and I are building the original German-designed Senior Telemaster wing. I had a plan of this wing drawn up by a lad in my club who's ace with CAD. He drew it from the wreckage of a Telemaster I had bought years ago as a basket case. It was just the wings, tail surfaces and the fuselage from the nose to the trailing edge and even the wings were slightly damaged. It cost me £10 or about $15US! I bought some 5/16" pine from a builders' merchant for £5, worked out the dimensions from a photograph, made up a fuselage from the pine strip, fitted an old Merco 61 and flew it for years until it went in with radio failure. Actually it was pilot error: the pilot had forgotten to charge the receiver battery! Real aeromodelling! This wing had two stut attachment points and I made up struts out of pine dowel with brass tube strut ends. These were flattened and bolted to the underside of the wing and to a single attachment point on the fuselage, thus forming a V shape like a Piper Cub. As Overbuild has said you may see my current wing on my website: www.telemastersalesuk.co.uk. Go to "Your Telemasters" and click on "Original Design."

To return to the question of struts. In my opinion struts are essential on any Senior Telemaster with two piece wings especially if you plan to over-power your model with a view to aerobatics or glider towing. With a one-piece wing, if you fly the model gently you'll get away without the struts. The Senior Telemaster builder's kit features a one piece wing without struts and two of my customers have built their Telemasters with one-piece wings and still managed to get them into their cars which are typical European four-door estate cars, (station wagons) a SAAB and a Skoda Octavia, which are about the same size as a Honda Accord.

Happy Landings

Dave Davis
TSUK