Hello

This is my version of classic pattern pay it forwards. I have received plans for the Curare and Aurora so to pay this forward to everyone (as well as paying back) I have had my plans for the MK Beetle scanned. I have put them up for everyone to download at their own pace on a file sharing site. The site I have them on is free for anyone to download with no join up. The files will be available for as many downloads as you like so long as I log in once every 30 days. If they aren't there just give me a PM and I will put them back up.

I had my plans scanned by a friend of a friend etc and they scanned them in colour at 600DPI so the original file was around 400MB I have a version that is made black and white and in PDF form that is a more manageable 150MB and split into two pieces. You will need to download both pieces to the same directory and then use winzip to unsplit them by double clicking on the file with the .zip extension. The other option is to download the low res verison thanks to rainedave's photoshop work.

I would like to think that others will follow suit and put their scanned plans up too. The great thing about scanning the plans is you don't have to worry about getting stuck with copies that people have asked for but haven't paid for. Also these classic planes are getting a bit rare and once the plans are gone they won't come back. If lots of people have digital copies then the plans should not get lost forever.

http://www.4shared.com/file/34076071...18/beetle.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/34076072...a2/beetle.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/34201840...e_low_res.html


Cheers
Tarquin

thats wonderful!!! classic pattern guys are gentlemen...

Agreed!! Thank You Very Much!!

Have Fun...

Chuck

Thank you for your efforts, but might I suggest 300 DPI grayscale. Plenty of detail and much more manageable file size.

Tarquin:

Thank-you for your efforts. Your work is much appreciated and now it is up to the rest of us to "pay it forward" as well.

Dave

T Brooks,
Thanks for the Beetle plan!

CAsniffer

Thanks to share, [sm=thumbs_up.gif]

Take care,

JYM.

Hello Everyone

For your interest in three days the low res version has been downloaded 46 times and the high res 37 times. It shows that there is interest in digital plans and the small amount of effort on my part in scanning the plans is worth while.

If the weather is too nasty to fly this weekend I would encourage everyone who has a classic kit or plan to go to their hobby room and dig it out, reminisce for a while, then take it to your local kinkos or copy king (or wherever) and get it scanned.

Personally I would like to see a wild7 or blue angel. Maybe a Dash 5. Even some of the smaller versions like the aurora 45.

Then of course there is the tiporare. I remember looking at the great planes catalogue that came in each kit and thinking how mean the two pattern planes looked the other was a dirty birdi.

There are of course a couple of places to buy plans and short kits and I am not trying to cut those people out. I wouldn't want to infringe on the copyright of a commercially available plan. Having a digital plan doesn't mean these people won't sell a short kit. In fact it could help sales in that one can see how hard it would be scratch build some of the more complex planes and convince one to go with a short kit.

Cheers
Tarquin

Anyone else having trouble unzipping the large files?

Thanks

CAsniffer

Make sure you have both of the large files downloaded prior to unzipping as one of them acts like disk 2. I had to download PKZIP V9, 30 days free, then everything went ok. The download took forever as the transfer rate was slow.

Jon

Thanks, Kr9x. I was using Winzip. I downloaded PKZip9 and was able to unzip the files.

CAsniffer

Hello Everyone

I forgot to log in to 4 shared and my files got deleted so here are new links

http://www.4shared.com/file/71257329...e_low_res.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/71261993...6a/beetle.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/71267825...7f/beetle.html


Cheers
Tarquin