Here are a few pics of the progress on the straight winged Phoenix.I have now found the plans and it turns out to be called a Nix designed by Dick Grieves in Canada in the 1970's.Being called a Nix its obviously a copy of a Phoenix ,but the wing is intentionally not swept. I turned it into a fixed conventional gear plane to make it simpler and I prefer that arrangement and power is by Supertigre.
Anyway whatever she turns out to be, I am quite looking forward to flying her.

Nix - interesting. Mystery solved. Anyway, it is good looking.

Good looking airplane! We who like these as taldraggers are likely in the minority, and saving a little weight/drag to boot! What is the sanded fuse leaning against the big red cad in the background??

Jeff thats my next project an Ivan Kristensen, Saturn.

I'll be honest with you, you are better off without the wing sweep for normal pattern flying. This is just my opinion, mind you, but it is based upon some experience.

Models with swept wings (leading and trailing edges) tend to suffer severe rudder/roll coupling, for what little yaw effect is generated. The swept wings look really great, but since we seldom go supersonic, they are basically just eye candy.

Your model is beautiful. Come back and tell us how it flies.


Ed Cregger

Pretty Airplane. In your post you said you found the plans. Where did you get them?

Ken

I had the plans all along from years ago. I just got back into this type of planes and had no idea where they were and couldn't remember what the plane was called. I love these old ships and especially obscure ones.