All American Update

LAST EDITED ON Jun-08-06 AT 03:53 PM (CST)
 
This is an All American Sr that I am building for a customer.

I wasn't happy with the windshield, so I made a plug and molded it! After all I can't have an airplane without a cockpit and pilot!!!!! Any other way ANY stunter looks unfinished.

Note: The solid elevator was at the customer's request.

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Tom, you slob!!! You got the left wing ONE PANEL LONGER THAN THE RIGHT WING!!!

Bigiron

It's just the camera lens, Marvin.

It can be flown without tip weight, guess how I know?

Marvin,

Howard is right. wide angle lenses cause major distortion. Maybe Mr Debolt had wide angle glasses??!!

Jim, I put a weight box in the tip just for kicks.

I must have had a "wide angle" benck. When I built mine, it looked the same way.

Bigiron

If you really built it that way, it would be hard to take off.

I'm trying to imagine a picture of Bigiron taken with a wide angle lens. I don't think you'd see anything. You'd need a tall-angle lens.

It will fly with out tip weight if you get it up to flying speed but getting it off the ground is the problem guess how I know. A left hand crank cures the tip weight problem.
Willis

Willis

I went to public school in Texas but, I count 5 panels on the right and 6 panels on the left???????

Fly safe, John

Thats exactly the way it's supposed to be, and if you wanted to be
really correct, you would fly it clockwise.

Last year I was priviliged to fly an AA Sr. left here by Mike Ostella. It had a Fox 35 (normal rotation) and no tip weight. It was (and is) an excellent performer. Takeoffs were very smooth, with no tendency to roll in.

Landings, however, were an entirely different matter.

One of our local wags once gave me a 40....(a 10 on each of the four bounces.)

I have got to get me a plan for that plane. It's just too beautiful.

LAST EDITED ON Jun-09-06 AT 10:42 AM (CST)
 
Howard.. I will have Nikon make a special "Tall Angle" lens just to take pictures of Marvin.

Marvin... You "Slob" Did you buy your "Wide Angle Bench" from Dmeco?

MIke... I flew Dale Gleason's All American Sr, last year and greased the landing, but I won't fly it again, since I want to keep my record at 100%!! Besides... tell the judges to judge the LAST landing!

This All American will get the traditional "Flag" paint job.

For a Forties design, the All American Sr is a great flying airplane, even if you have to use special glasses to build it!

Yep, the design is no slouch. It won Old Time at the first VSC. Of course it was being guided by a moderately proficient flyer from Foster City, California.

There is a similar airplane called the "All Canadian". I have a picture of one from the 1999 VSC. It is very similar to an All American, but has equal span wings and a maple leaf on each wing. I think it has to have the maple leaves to be OTS legal.

LAST EDITED ON Jun-09-06 AT 04:58 PM (CST)
 
>There is a similar airplane called the "All Canadian". I
>have a picture of one from the 1999 VSC. It is very similar
>to an All American, but has equal span wings and a maple
>leaf on each wing. I think it has to have the maple leaves
>to be OTS legal.

Hi Jim, I believe someone once told me that it actually is the All American just that the wings were centered or maybe just that one bay was removed.

edit: typo

I understood that the wings were centered. I think the guy had some sort of documentation that they had built All Americans that way in Canada during the OTS period, but my memory of that is fuzzy.

LAST EDITED ON Jun-10-06 AT 11:08 PM (CST)
 
My FAVORITE Airplane. Has McCoy 29 series 21. 34oz, 10x6 BY&O,.015 x 60’. 1/2 oz Tip Weight 2000+ Flights. Best flying plane I have.

Did you start that fire, Scott?

Leo did!!!lol
This was in Waitsburg Washington 2004. I had MORE FUN flying there. Great site. Big Joe and Dave Miller did a great job.

Scott,

Love that flag paint scheme, it almost brings the All American up to date!