I am planing to build a F3A pattern plane for 50 size engine, were can i get good plan for this size of engine.

Thanks for all your help.

Regards,
Highfly

The Venus from Great Planes is a nice plane. there are a few other options..but for what it is, it is a good flying plane.

Arch

A Fashion 50 ARF would be my vote. A friend built one and I've flown it a few times. It flys really well with an OS 46 and is capable of any pattern schedule.

i have said i need a plan for a 50 size pattern plane i am not interested in buying a ARF's......

I was wondering if you wanted a plan or not. People often misspell plane that way, which is probably what the guys above assumed.

I have looked for some time trying to find a decent "current" design, but 50 sized models are not at all popular so I have found nothing as of yet. All of the recent, useful 50 sized pattern models are ARF's, unfortunately. If you can live with a kit, the Epsilon 40 is supposed to be a decent kit and solid performing airframe. I don't think there is anything else out there at the moment. Singapore Hobby used to have the Alliance and Synergy kits, but I they were out of stock a while ago. I don't know if they are back in stock or ever will be. With shipping, the price was high, as well.

http://www.singahobby.com/mkp02.html

If you find a set of plans, let me know, I would love to have one as well.

Mark

MK Synergy. Build it light and replace the beam mount with a firewall and Hyde mount for YS63.

Guttorm

Ultrasport 40 Plus
http://www.greatplanes.com/airplanes/gpma0390.html

or what I used for my first step to pattern:

Tracer:
http://www.greatplanes.com/airplanes/gpma0400.html

At the website page it says discontinued, but here http://www.greatplanes.com/airplanes/kits-glow.html it says they are back!

Also the "old" Ultrasport"!! That will make some people happy!

The Ultrasport 40 Plus and the Tracer fly very well on a Saito-72 or OS-46 or similar!

Volkert

Highfly:

I will recommend you to consider a 90 size instead of a 50. The 90 size is more stable and the price tag is almost the same.


Regards,
Henning

But what are the offerings in a 90 size kit? Maybe an Epsilon-90?

http://www.camodel.com.ar/modelos/Ep...silon90ing.htm

Hi Henning,

I guess you are right, i must go for a 90 size pattern ship. If any one has a good 90 size pattern plan please let me know..

Do you have an engine already? If not, I would suggest a YS110 (if you like 4 strokes) or either an OS 120AX or Webra 120 (if you like 2 strokes) and a 110 sized plane. You will be hard pressed to find any current design available as plans, in any size.

I believe Mark Hunt (flyintexan on RCU) will print his Insight plans to 110 size and he can offer foam cores as well. Mark also has the Voodoo Express 2 for a 110-120 engine on his website. It can be purchased as a plans set only and Mark will cut cores for it. At least he has in the past, because I have a set sitting in my basement.

http://www.geocities.com/markhunt_2000/INSIGHT


Mike Hester is working on a 110 sized Black Magic kit (I'm still waiting, Mike! ), but it will not be available as plans only.

http://www.customairframes.com/


Very few competitive pattern planes are offered as a plan set, the field is almost all ARF's with a few kits. And those are pretty much all 2M sized. The Epsilon 60 kit is supposedly a decent airframe in the 90 size if you can live with a kit.

Mark

Hi Highfly!

Check out this link and espesially " Loaded Dice plan #1104". http://www.rcmplans.com/index.php?ma...ort=20a&page=2
Lots of good stuff here.

Spigas drawings are available for free from Ola Fremming’s web page. I’m still enjoying my Spigas 90 for offseason practise. I built it five years ago.
http://www.ofremmi.info/Drawings/drawings.htm

Another source for plans is my flying buddy Jon Wold. He collects F3A drawings. Drop him an email and ask him if he can send you a copy.
http://home.no.net/aerowold/plans.htm
[email protected]

Henning