Great Planes Rapture 40


Rapture 40

I bought this Discontinued G.P. Rapture 40 kit for $25 because it was missing the plans and the plan is no longer available.
I have a lot of building experience so I was able to build the kit without plans.
This is an intermediate level kit so it wasn’t hard to build.
I did some mods to the plane. The fuselage was an open-bay type all the way up to the nose.
I filled in the bays over the wing and nose area as these seemed like weak areas.
The nose had the two “cheeks” on both sides of the motor. For a plane that resembles a Super Sportster and an Ultra Sport it just didn’t look so good like that so I cut off the cheeks and glued on Balsa blocks, I then rounded off the blocks around the engine which greatly improved the looks of this plane.
The wing was 60 inches long so I removed one rib bay from both ends of it.
I installed a Thunder Tigre .75 four stroke engine.
I wanted do do something different with the covering colors. My suggested Blue, Orange and Light Gray So that’s what I went with. The result looks fantastic!
This originally was just going to be a cheap quick build plane to throw around and not worry too much about crashing but it turned out to be a super nice plane with clean lines and cool graphics- also very sturdy!
I really like this plane!
Im looking forward to flying it when warm weather returns😀