Another "Based On" design.

Looks like a "Compensator" or "A6 Intruder" copy. Dave.

Sweetater??? Very cool looking whatever it is!!

Revenger?

Wow! This is a really nice looking plane.

I cheated by looking up the designer, so I won't put the name to it.

I finally got a tattoo. It reads, "Born too loose."


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Ever see the movie where the biker girl is reading aloud the tattoos on the biker boy friend's back and says, "South Kadota"? I laughed until I cried. Can't remember the name of the movie, though.

Back on topic. That is a beautiful model. The tail assembly reminds me of the Deception by Jim Kimbro.


Ed Cregger

Revenger was in RCM and used a canopy more like the Dirty Birdy.

You can read that?

It looks sorta like a Mach 1 take-off. Especially the rudder

Configurator III?

Yup

Is that a fiberglass turtle deck on top the fuse?







DM

George Buso.

Look here: http://www.modelaircraft.org/museum/bio/Buso.pdf

It's a giant balsa plank!

Thanks for the link, grotto2.

Found it there too. I'll split it with you.

New to RCU and got here via Google trying to find info on CG location on a Compensator I just pulled out and dusted off many years of dust. It is in great shape and I have pulled out old pro-line servos etc and putting in new servos, 2.4 etc but I did not mark CG back when I built it and have no info or plans. I now keep all that but wasn't that smart back then. I could figure it or get close but sure would like to know what the good starting place is if anyone knows ? I want to fly it in vintage pattern so don't want to ding it up with way off CG. thanks

A safe starting point is 25% of the average wing area.

Hi mGang,
Remember George's blown-up sized Configurator with the Webra geardrive back in the early '80s? It was called the Big One. We published it in Flying Models.
Dean Pappas

I am hoping you mean 25% of mean aerodynamic chord, not area...

Mark

Here's a detail of the plans. It's about 4 3/8" back at the fuselage side.

David

Not to get into a big discussion of geometry, but I meant 25% of the wing area in front of the CG, and 75% behind it. On a straight wing, that would be 25% of the root chord. On a tapered wing, you need triangle or trapezoid area calculations.

I seem to recall he flew that with the geared webra, one of the OS gear drive .61 engines, and later with the 4-c 120.

Didn't George who also had that tiny version he carried around in a briefcase ?

Compensator CG - Thanks for the info - I am off to shop to balance new gear going in now that I have a good target to start from. I am going to go to a separate servo for nose retract instead of the old 3 armed servo in wing and fishing that nose rod up front with clevis to hook up, looks like a Hitec 125 flat glider aileron servo will work well.