Ok I've been at this hobby for 15 some years but I've been away the last 3 or so. I started looking to get into bigger planes, looked at the cost and said, hell I'll go get my pilots license and I did, well its been fun and I'll still be flying but it's really expensive and now with a new condo, with a garage I might add I now have a shop and have been dragging out the old models.
To the point I have an 80% done lanier strike 40 I was building but I can't find the instructions and it seems lanier was bought out by Great Planes, go figure, but they don't list any lanier stuff. Does anyone know were I might be able to hunt down an instruction manual, I do still have the plans

So lanier just fell off the planet then?

Yea Lanier has been gone for a while now. I think Goldberg initially acquired Lanier then Goldberg was bought out by GP. If I were you I'd post in the kit building forum. I'm sure someone there can help you out. If you're 80% complete on yours there's not that much left to build. Good luck.
WCB

Maybe try the guys over on the speed forum.

That's a good idea too. I didn't think of that.

Maybe this is what you are looking for:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_3527250/tm.htm

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