A photo of the Mach one I built and flew in the 70's and a photo of the on under const. now it will have O.S. 61 FX and E Flite retracts JR 9530 radio it is scratch built from Model air plane News mag Plans and using Eureka wing an stab cores started sheeting today. The original was a little heavy but flew great ( was a midwest kit, and the paint was done withlacquer metal flake and K& B super Poxy clear) Yeah I know what did I expect with the weight ? but myself and a friend were playing with auto inspired custom paints

Great job, past and present. Keep the pic's coming. Pete

looks great Dad!
I say we find Diver and recreate the two pound paint job!
oh well, maybe not.
looking good as usual
Dave jr.

flyfreedave

What engine, retracts and radio did you have in the old Mach 1?
I had a Mach 1 also in 1970th - Rossi 60 FI RC ABC, Goldberg retracts, EK logictrol super pro 7 ch. Painted in 2-component polyurethane paint (model came out little heavy).

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Both are impressive works....

I also had a Mach 1 in the seventies.... Kraft .61, ProLine radio, retracts (don't remember the brand), K&B SuperPoxy paint.. Mine was also a "bit" heavy.

ChiefK

Love the pictures of Mach 1's. I stole this from a thread on RCU a while back. The original paint scheme shows the lines of this design so well.
Chris...

I will try to answer some of the questions, one of the guys sent me a pm and I will cover that also. The old one was powered by a Super Tigre 60 Blue head with an MACS muffler, the retracts were I belive robarts, Its hard to belive I could getall that in it !!I had others but they were my favorites. The radio was Kraft. The problem with weight was that it was a Midwest kit I don't belive I've ever seen any of their wood that's not heavy and hard, the paint I knew was going to be a problem but just wanted to do it ( at least back then the metal in metal flake Was Metal)
I know it was dumbbut it was pretty,and amazingly the plane flew quite well there was'nt a lot of emphasis on vertical manuvers back then but itwould reallypenetrat the wind. The new one is being built out of all 4 to 7 lb. wood, other than where I need some thing a little harder.all blocks are hollowed to an 1/8" The fuse as you see it weighs 0.82 lbs. the vertical fin dorsal strake and rudder weigh 0.07lbs(1.10 oz.) I got the stab and wing cores sheeted last night and cleaned up, and cut up the L/Es and T/Es. its been so long since I built a R/C ship i really don't have a feel for where the weights really should be, My son and I have been flying freeflight and controlline the past 15 or so years I had'nt flown R/C in probably 22 or so years and just got back this year, building a 1/4 scale Pitts 12 my son designed this last fall too.

Dave ( I will try to post some photos as I go along )

It's comeing along the elevators and ailerons are not in the photo but are done, next is the wing fillet and fairings on the bottom.

looks good Dave. how are you going to finish your project?

I have for years used either dope or automotive paints but the last several years I have developed some problems with my breathing, and am try ing to learn to use the iron products. I will attach the scheme I plan to use on the mach one and a Extra I did this summer and am flying now.

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am try ing to learn to use the iron products. [:@]

I LIKE that scheme on the Mach 1. Paint, film, dope, whatever you use, that will be a very sharp airplane!

Thanks for the intrest, I will post some photos as soon as I ger the wing fairings an fillets done, then it's on to the covering.