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Flyboy, I saw Rick take the fall, you guys were about three canopies down from us.

Rich

Hey U Guiz! Come check out my latest rebuild thread

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/cras...l#post11969109

Hi Rich,

I finally rounded up some of my pics, 1/3 Morane Saulnier, 1/4 Nieuport 17 1/3 Sopwith Pup.

Thanks, Rick

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=2067801 http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=2067802 http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=2067807

Did yo have these at Dayton this year? Nice looking airplanes, Rick

Take Care
Rich

Great looking planes Rick!!!

Keith

Rick, those are absolutely beautiful. I have a Morane Saulnier boned up and waiting on me to get busy again. You may have given me a shove after seeing yours.

Ray

Balsa USA Brotherhood #17

Very nice. You did alot more detail on the Morane Salnier than I did.

Rich, can I join this illustrious group of builders and become a member of BUSA Brotherhood?

Doc

Marc Shelsrom

Yes, Doc, you are more than welcome. Your number is 103. The building skills that you and Doc G display are excellent, I always learn something following your construction threads. Those of you who not follow the construction threads on RCSB, you are missing a great learning experience. Marc has 2 threads on RCSB, Balsa USA Kits, page 1, Doc's Albatros by shelsrm and BUSA Nieuport 28 Mark II. While you are there check out Nieuport 28 1/3 scale (Doc) another excellent read.

It would be helpful for me if all BUSA Brothers would post their BUSA Brotherhood number in their signature. If I have missed anyone please let me know.

BUSA brothers

#1 Jwrich OK USA
#2 Jeffo MI USA
#3 ARUP KY USA
#4 RCKen OK USA
#5 mattnew MA USA
#6 surmovik60 VA USA
#7 GerKonig PA USA
#8 Granpooba NY USA
#9 radfordc KS USA
#10 balsa brain FL USA
#11 3136 Victoria Austrialia **
#12 wwoneguy MD USA
#13 vertical grimmace CO USA
#14 rcmiket TX USA
#15 bpoates25 FL USA
#16 PiperDriver IL USA
#17 68goat AL USA
#18 jlsimon NJ USA
#19 pat s NC USA
#20 pending IN USA
#21 Steve Percifield IN USA
#22 opol MN USA
#23 Zero TX USA
#24 tonyos VA USA
#25 b206 IL USA USA
#26 LonnieMcc MS USA
#27 eindecer3 TN USA
#28 flyer35 NY USA
#29 jeffEE MN USA
#30 s3nfo CA USA
#31 Kwikfli KS USA
#32 JDHammer PA USA
#33 Ikruse OK USA
#34 bobbailey VA USA
#35 Vampire PA USA
#36 zemkes_wolfpack IN USA
#37 triumphman49 AL USA
#38 SRQFlyer FL USA
#39 Daniel-EL OH USA
#40 hairy46 WY USA
#41 pettit NC USA
#42 Hrannar Iceland **
#43 lowbubba OH USA
#45 FokkerD7 OH USA
#44 FireBee VA USA
#46 iampilot2 OH USA
#47 Wagon1 FL USA
#48 darren 4 WI USA
#49 Luxuswaffe FL USA
#50 dryverman VT USA
#51 otterrc FL USA
#52 cooper998 DE USA
#53 lazyace NY USA
#54 wings2an3 NY USA
#55 the pamster TX USA
#56 lucasar15 PA USA
#57 AMA74894 MN USA
#58 squidman TX USA
#59 M_Callahan OH USA
#60 Karp050555 PA USA
#61 optech CA USA
#62 ashby NSW Australia **
#63 R/C Art IN USA
#64 on_your_six MD USA
#65 Highflyer2 GA USA
#66 dddaviddean NJ USA
#67 Quagmire CA USA
#68 pending CA USA
#69 ratshooter TX USA
#70 TXAG96 MI USA
#71 R/C Ray NY USA
#72 feep NH USA
#73 sdcranford MO USA
#74 buzzard bait NY USA
#75 chadasmus KY USA (BUSA Team Pilot, Builder and Designer)
#76 fokv25 IN USA
#77 Dynamic! WI USA
#78 WinterHawke WI USA
#79 t6racer NSW Australia **
#80 NM2K GA USA
#81 rcjunky67 FL USA
#82 AndyF IN USA
#83 freefall2907 IA USA
#84 a65l VA USA
#85 Grimracer IL USA
#86 Corsair2013 UT USA
#87 Chevelle NY USA
#88 eagledancer FL USA
#89 Leroy Gardner ID USA
#90 ANZAC Australia **
#91 Spadsriver09 IN USA
#92 PSB OH USA
#93 bradpaul FL USA
#94 MRadu CA USA
#95 HPA OH USA
#96 Shoestring MN USA
#97 David Gladwin United Kingdom **
#98 Rich6170 OH USA
#99 Wildbills21 MI USA (Team BUSA pilot, builder and the chief mechanic)
#100 Rickj OH USA
#101 Geezeraviation TX USA
#102 Flyboy077 OH USA
#103 Shelstrm WI USA

Rich

Thanks for all of the complements as they are greatly appreciated. The only one at Dayton was the Morane. The Pup was destroyed
3 days before the show due to a elevator problem. What is left of it is in my van. i am building a new one at this time.

Thnaks, Rick

ohhhhhhhhh man, sorry to hear about the Pup............ what a loss.

Did you find out what happened? Bad servo??

Keith

Sorry for your loss.

I installed longer aileron ext. from the receiver and I think I might of pulled on the elevator ext
and it came out. All of the servos worked after the crash. The day of the crash, the Pup was
flying for 10 minuets, landed, refuled and back up. My son was going to fly it at Dayton and he
was flying it when the elevator went out. He felt so bad I though he was going to cry ( he is 48).
I told him dont worry about it, no one got hurt and I can build another one..

Send it to me. I can fix it!

To late the trash can got most of it.

Story of my life. A day late and a dollar short. When my ship comes in, I'll be waiting at the bus stop.

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Originally Posted by Karp050555 (Post 11970648)

Story of my life. A day late and a dollar short. When my ship comes in, I'll be waiting at the bus stop.

With a box of chocolates................

Rickj, is your Pup the one that goes straight in on concrete from about 400-600 feet on youtube? Man that was an ugly accident....

No, mine crashed in Alliance Ohio at our field.

Very nice Flyboy

Rich

I was looking through an old 1980 issue (OK.... hands up if 1980 still seems like yesterday) of Radio Control Modeler magazine and ran across this old BUSA ad.

Of note is the Tempo II. Either it didn't sell well or whatever but they did not produce it for long so not many people know about it. My local haobby dealer of the time used to keep most of the BUSA kits in stock so I flew my share of them as they were pretty much all I could afford back then. I flew a couple of the Tempos and they flew great. Basically they were just fancy Swizzle Sticks as it was the same wing but it introduced you a full fuse build. Later I added ailerons before the super sticks came out.

Surprisingly I did not know about the little Pee-Wee stick. I was all too familiar with the 19,30,40 and 60 Swizzle Sticks so I thought this ad was interesting. I suppose it asking too much find a set of Pee-Wee plans so someone would have to scale down one of the larger sticks.

Later,
Mike

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Originally Posted by optech (Post 11973138)

I was looking through an old 1980 issue (OK.... hands up if 1980 still seems like yesterday) ...
Surprisingly I did not know about the little Pee-Wee stick. ...
Mike

Both my hands are up.! It may be possible to buy the plans from BUSA; it used to be so. Good luck.

When I was in Germany '81 to '85, I taught several new guy to fly with the Swizzle Stick 40, with a KB 40. After they were on their own, we moved up to the Smoothie 40. You could modify the Smoothie to look like several other aircraft with covering and simple mods. I built many P-40 & P-51 smoothies. I still have the plans for most of their 40 size planes. In '81 I bought the 1/3 scale Fly Baby Biplane, the Quadra 35 and enough coverrite covering to finish the aircraft, all for less than $250.00.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=2069196

These pictures were taken in 2001 when I put it up for sale. I flew this airplane in 7 countries and 5 US States. Wonderful flying airplane.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/atta...mentid=2069197

Rich