Easy "Name the Plane"
 

Anyone here ever build and fly this one?

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Never Built one, but isn't it the Bar Fli by Phil Kraft?

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Not a Bar Fli. Slik Fli I think it was called.

Ray

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Any more guesses?

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Perhaps not a Slik Fli. It had a straight trailing edge wing, a flat plate tail and a side mounted engine.

OK then - it is a Something Fli. Definitely a Phil Kraft design and the plan also shows Kraft retracts.

Dragon Fli?

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I agree, I think it's a Dragon-Fli .

tommy s

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David,

I gotta go with Dragon Fli... that symmetrical stab is the big difference between the Slik Fli and the Dragon Fli... I think.... either way, nice looking planes.

Dan

Carolina Custom Aircraft

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RFJ, yep, the Dragon Fli.

In the article Kraft stated he was aiming for high speed, spectacular maneuvers with this design. I bet it's a nice looking model with the gear up.

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Well dave, When you gonna build it?:D

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Can the plans be had?

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PM me your email address for the plans. They're not the best quality. I scanned them from the magazine and it's one of those reproductions where they added a colored background so the scanner picks up all the halftone dots. If you look close you can see how they effect the edges of the black lines.

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How about that! First "Name the Plane" I have managed to guess right!

Keep them coming rainedave, always enjoy trying to identify your drawings/pictures. I may submit a few myself to see how good you Yanks are with old Brit designs.

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OK - as promised above here is a famous Brit design from the early 70s.

Will be easy for UK posters.

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Mike Birch's `Capricorn'. Would love to find a plan of this one...anyone?
Evan, WB#12.

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So would I Evan. Had Mike's kit many years ago and foolishly did not make some drawings from it.

How about this one - again quite well known.

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Stu Foster's `Equaliser', sort of a `Thunderstormer' (Spreng design) development. This one I do have plans for.
Evan (Again)

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More like a Spreng Twister I would have thought Evan.

OK - last of the easy ones below. The Yanks ain't doing very well are they.

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Pete Russel's `Striker 1'. (Sorry, just can't help myself).
Evan (again, again)

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Re the Equaliser, in the mag article Stu quotes the Thunderstormer as the model he was flying prior to designing Equaliser, Twister isn't mentioned, perhaps they were both done around the same time?
Evan.

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Looking at the dates - Spreng flew the Twister at the 1967 World Champs, came to work in England in August 1967 and flew the Twister in a number of events in the UK during 1968. The plan was published in February 1968.

The Equaliser plan was published in April 1969.

Actually Stu does mention the Twister in the RCM&E article - bottom of first page.

Ray

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Well, I would have gotten the Striker because I have the magazine with the construction article, I think. Or maybe it just looks like another design I've seen.

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See, I can't read either... :-)
Evan.

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Here are a couple of pictures of Doug's Twister. Coincidentally I have just cut a pair of wings for it!

John

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I have a set of original Twister plans which I never got around to building in the 70's. Just got back into it after 30 odd years with a couple of ARF's that are fun but I am already ordering plans for 70's pattern ships.
The Twister was considered quite radical in design here in Australia where American and some local designs were the norm. I was what we called a "design hopper" never settling on a design and sticking to it, built and flew a lot of them (Mach 1, Tiger Tail, Dragon Fli,Phoenix,Banshee and heaps of my own).
Great to see so much activity on these great machines.
Cheers
Greg
Australia