You're very best model

What is the very best stunt model you have ever flown/owned? You know, one that you could really write in the sky with?

Bob Beasley

That's hard to say since they all take on a mystical quality once they are deceased. You tend to forget any bad habits.

The one I remember most was a plane I designed called Dragonslayer. Ridiculous aspect design that flew spectacularly when it was calm. I try to forget how it flew in the wind.

Probably the best flying plane I ever built overall was a Bill Werwage Juno. Didn't survive to it's first contest (shows me why I don't fly now in 35+ MPH winds). It was probably the best.

The real answer should be, "the one that I will finish for this spring".

The (comparatively) humble Streak...

You didn't ask, but Fox, natch...

That's easy: Impact, OS .40VF

I've been lucky enough to have several really good planes over the years, but the best of the best was my first Electra. I was still finishing it when I arrived at the VSC. My third flight was my first official flight. To say the plane flew well is an understatment. It was as Bob Hunt called it, "a point and shoot".

I finished that year in the top 15, my highest placing ever at the VSC. I only had 9 flights on it when I went home. A failure in the control system was it's undoing the next year. I really hated losing that plane.

John Miller..

Would you please email me [email protected] .. Have sent you a couple of emails but they must not have got through..

Thanks,

This is not necessarily "stunt" in its finest form, but I have to go with the Flite Streak using a Super Tigre G21 .35 (suction)for the most clean and accurate airobatics of all my planes.
In any weather it is stable, fast, and a ball to fly!!

Without a doubt, Novi III powered by Fox 35 hemi. It now hangs on the basement wall in a place of honor right across from my 1979 Nats winning combat plane.
Bigiron

Well,

My favorite is my own design Spinks Akromaster. I started building in in 1969, but did not complete it until 1970. It would really fly! John Simpson's Cavelier comes next and is extremely close to the Akro. Hopefully, my new customized Legacy will be the best!

The nicest PA model I've ever flown was a Mathis "Excalibur" (mk 1) built by Bruce Tunberg (later a Cox engineer, now I believe is running K&B) with a McCoy .40. Three of us in the old Eastside Model Aero Club built them, mine had an OS .35S, and Dave Woodcock (several time Sr. Navy Carrier record holder and now my Dentist) had a Fox .35S in his. As I recall, I flew all 3, and liked Bruce's the best. Better groove and line tension than mine, and the engine was SO steady and powerful. My OS was only powerful...the Fox was only steady. For combat models, I had an original .35 design called the "Masher" that flew very well, but again, Bruce built a G.20 .15 powered Netzeband "Splinter" that flew every bit as well. He had a TD .049 version that I couldn't keep up with, even 30 years ago. Bruce was many time Sr. 1/2a proto speed record holder. Where did I go wrong? Steve

I'm almost reluctant to say in this company, but the plane whose flying characteristics I liked the most was a cobbled-up bitsa.
The scenario is that I had just sold all my planes prior to emigrating to australia ( Yes I do wish I had kept them.....)
With 5 weeks to go I was sufferring withdrawall symptoms so I built a plane with the wings from a Sig Mustang and the tail from a Mercury Crusader and a plank fuselage.
The tail was half the area of the wing ( nearly....)
No wheels, no canopy, it looked horrible.
They were bits I kept from crashes ( er....inadvertent landings )
In any case it flew like a dream, I will always have fond memories of it.
Its final ( Viking..) flight was the week-end before we emigrated, I let a non-flying friend fly it.....
" Yes I can fly it, I used to do this as a kid........"
Oh well, the engine survived ( a Fox36 )