My new Racing Bipe take a look
07-05-2004, 07:40 PM
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My new Racing Bipe take a look
Please tell me what you think, I have not test flown it yet. Sorceress is the name of the plane, It was made from a jerry Bradley fuse mold and rankin Racing design planes,It has a Fred French tuned 445 on alki, and a Futaba radio gear.
PS Thanks Mike from PK Industries
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RE: My new Racing Bipe take a look
it is not a cobra, it is a Sorceress. but it and the cobra/sundancer raced in the same era, but the cobra/sundancer was faster,and had a gulled top wing as well as a gulled lower wing. not sure what the Sorceress was modeled after , but the cobra/sundancer was a modified midget mustang.
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RE: My new Racing Bipe take a look
looks more like a sundancer on steroids to me...
wow 170+ huh, the bipe class has really been getting faster since we have left USRA, and im sure everything has...nice lookin ship, hope it wins u some championships
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wow 170+ huh, the bipe class has really been getting faster since we have left USRA, and im sure everything has...nice lookin ship, hope it wins u some championshipsCole
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RE: My new Racing Bipe take a look
My oh my, that brings back memories. I think it was 1985 or 86. We were having a CL Combat meet at a small airport near Davenport, IA (Quad Cities), and sometime during the afternoon, I noticed this odd looking little airplane landing and taxiing over to the parking apron. I went over and had a look - beautiful polished metal, TINY, short stubby wings, the pilot didn't want us to touch it with our oily hands.. 
Yup, it was the Sorceress, on her last cross-country flight. She was being taken to the Smithsonian, and last I heard, was in the Garber Restoration Facility.
I still have the pictures, somewhere. The feature I was most interested in was the plexiglass tip plates. My guess was they were there to reduce tip spillage on those short wings.
Yup, it was the Sorceress, on her last cross-country flight. She was being taken to the Smithsonian, and last I heard, was in the Garber Restoration Facility.
I still have the pictures, somewhere. The feature I was most interested in was the plexiglass tip plates. My guess was they were there to reduce tip spillage on those short wings.
