My Bridi Deception came out at slightly over 9 lbs. Mine was built from a Bridi kit and the wood could have been lighter. Being unemployed at that time, I went with the stock wood and the K&B Superpoxy paint that I had on hand.

The Deception is a great flying patternship, but it needs a bit more rudder authority. Building it lighter would probably have increased the effectiveness of the available rudder area, but I built it as light as I could with what was available.

In the end, our sloping flying field did it in. More correctly it did my patience in. For the first half of the year, you had to land coming in over the road, drop down onto the field and then roll downhill until the model hit the weeds. In the second half of the year, after the wind changed direction 180 degrees, landing the 9 plus lbs. Deception going uphill was a piece of cake, but by that time the model had been weed whipped so severely that thinking of flying in contests was ridiculous. Besides, my OS .61F SR wasn't providing the thrust that I needed for the verticals, even with the pipe pulled out a bit.


Ed Cregger

I have lots of ideas to drop weight, lol Kinda funny because locally I am know as the guy who always has the light airplane. My 33% Laser pictured weighs 15.5 lbs ans is powered with a DA 50. Note 33%means 96" span

deception has a shorter canopy I still think its an escape

Yes, I'm not convinced either but I have to call it something. I have noticed that all the Bridi designs I have seen have full span strip ailerons and this ship has about 1/3 span barn door ailerons. Could have been builder preference or just another clue.

Any way of getting ahold of the original builder?

I contacted the AMA, they said they would do a search in their data base for the member with that number and forward my contact information to him. In the meantime, I almost have it ready to take to the air once again. The engine was dis-assembled, cleaned and put back together. I made all new servo mounts and most of the linkages have been replaced. I ended up using JR 8611s on elevator and aileron and JR 537s on everything else. A new Spectrum AR7000 RX rounds out the package. Should be able to get her airborn one evening next week.