Hello All!

Hope this finds you all doing well in this day and age of the 'vid...

Now to something important. After a 30 year absence, found an eaglet and a rossi .21 with pipe for power. The question is...
What else? What other mods do you know (or heard) about? Looking for ideas to make the bird tougher and easier to maintain.

My first mod will be getting rid of the rubber band wing mount, reducing the dihedral a bit, and getting the tail and wing on the same plane... Any others?

There probably isn't much, but the last time I touched an eaglet was in the early '80s. Fortunately the bird was donated to Hobbycraft in Burlington IA and it flew as a club trainer for years.

This IS turning me into a kid again!!

Thanks in advance!

fm

Model aviation notable, John Hunton had published mods for the Carl Goldberg Eaglet 50 around 1984(?), turning this trainer into a competitive sport, fun-fly airplane. IIRC, some of the changes were a shortened span, lowered dihedral, semi-symmetrical airfoil, bolt-on wing, engine positioned sideways for optimum fuel draw and under-slung exhaust, conventional gear - among other things and called it Screamin' Eaglet. I've got two kits - planning to do at least one with all these features. Wishing I had held on to my older MA magazine collection for reasons like this one.

Didn't see the bolt on wing, but i found the Screamin' Eaglet write up

Thanks for the assist

fm

My older Model Aviation magazine collection is gone and I couldn't find much; could you post a link? Thanks -

Didn't save the link (sorry this is my work pc with all the security)... BUT... you can get the write-up off of modelaircraft.org. Click on Media & Resources; then modelaviation.com

Hit the Archive/Library; then search for August 1984. That'll take you to the whole magazine. The article reviews Bill Winters mods to the Eaglet. They even have plans you can get for like 5$ or something

Though I won't be doing the taildragger or motor rotation mods; kinda want it like the one i built 38 years ago, I am putting in a Rossi .21 (wish I had the recommended tuned pipe...) instead of the OS Max 25 i originally built it with (couldn't find a max, and the rossi was the last one...) Also doing the airfoil mods along with the dowel LE for the tail feathers. Still looking for some guidance (or some photos of an actual mod) about the bolt on main wing... not having too much luck though; probably mostly because work pc doesn't do real searches.

Hope this helps

FM

was going to add a build thread to this, but the covid has made things slooooow down a bit

stay safe out there folks!

fm