Id plane and plans
 

Need help with the ID of this plane and could uses some plans to rebuild the wing. It is a .25 size plane with a 44" wing span, Trycycle landing gear, Semi-Semetrical wing,(almost a flat bottum).

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My Guess is Tiger Jr. by Goldberg.
Possible Randy Randolph scratch design. I'm curious too as I like .25 powered planes the most.

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Does anyone have a copy of the Jr Tiger plans the could post or E-mail me?

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Does the leading edge of the wing use a hard wood dowl for shape???? If not then it is not a Jr Tigre. The Jr Tigre also had a real big clear canopy that shaped about 1/3 of the fuse. I thought the span was 50 inch?????

It sort of looks like a big version of a plan from RCM called Chipps or something close to that. Can you post a side view

Dru.

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Whats wrong with the wing, that you want to rebuild? dick

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The plane went down in a corn field, not one rib made it out alive. It uses a square dowel, set at a angle for the leading edge.

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Couldent find anything on a plane called "Chipps", any outher ideas?

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This is not the Randolph Chips published in MAN in March, 1990. That was a .15 powered plane with taildragger gear and a canopy. I have thumbed through 4 catalogs and can't identify it.

OK, one more catalog- Flying Models. I found two planes that resemble this- Pepper by Dick Sarpolus (9-1983) and Nacho by Randolph (3-1985).

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I cant find pics of eather of them, could you post some please.

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It's a Tiger plain and simple almost a clone of the 40 size a friend has down to the colors.

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A Tiger Jr has a clear canopy. The front of the leading edge has a round dowel.
I believe the wingspan is 49" and I do have the plans x2 One that I built and one kit still in the box.

Jeff

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Even though my first guess was a Tiger Jr. I agree that it is probably not. Randy Randolph had a lot of scratch designs that look similar to this plane. I have a list of most everything he designed in the .15 to .25 size plane. I will try to find the list and see if I can find a match for this plane.

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Go to Model Airplane News website. Go to the plans section. Type in "Titewad" in the search field. Looks like a good match to me.

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The Titewad looks close, but the Turtle deck dosent curve down, it is stright. Thanks for the help.

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even if all the ribs were broken, I'm thinking you can probably piece them together enough to trace the shape out and bild a new one?

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It is NOT a Tiger; look at the tail. The Tiger is basically a low-wing Eagle, and most definitely does not feature split elevators. Also, the vertical fin on this plane is smaller and sitting well behind the LE of the horizontal stab.

I'll agree that this model has the same general outline of a Sky Tiger/Tiger II. But unless somebody did major modifications to the tail feathers and other areas, this isn't one.

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Just a wild guess, but I think it looks like a SunFli and someone kitbashed a cabin

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I have looked thru 100s of plans and belive this could be some kind of hy-bred or modified kit. Thanks to all who helped.

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I just had a stupid idea, I get those constantly. Trace the wing saddle curve onto a piece of paper. Do it again on other side on another sheet. Cut useless paper away with scissors (I had to go to Staples online to figure out how to spell scissors). Place sheets together with tracings forming a symmetrical wing form. Adjust fit for proper leading edge and enough square in back for aileron stock of your choice. Tape together. You now have a template for a fully symmetrical wing. Wing rib template = wing template - LE stock - TE stock - sheeting - spars. It appears that your plane makes no allowances for inboard tapered TE. At this point it is just a matter of cutting ribs, and building your new and improved wing. Of course I could be making a gross error here.

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i would do what someone suggested earlier and piece together the broken ribs and if you have enough pieces of each rib you can atleast get the shape and size of each rib. if the wing is straight and not tapered you can just use one rib and pattern the rest from a master pattern. you will have to do a reconstruction similar to what archiologists do when piecing together skeletons. everything is at the crash site to field a general idea of the structure of the wing you just have to doodle a plan real quick to give your self the general idea of the placement of parts and such.

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Reconstructed one wing rib and built a new wing, thanks for the help.

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good job!

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Here is what it looks like now.