FrankenPlane!

Stuka Stunt Main Forum · 6 of 6 known posts recovered

Tim McTigue · Jul 03, 2001 06:56 PM

Bwa-hahahhahaha! I've read several threads about creating a new design by using elements from two or more existing planes. I've even seen wonderful examples, such as Bob Reeves' TwistMaster. I'm wondering, though, if there's a dark side to this equation? I'd like to read descriptions of planes that went horribly wrong, or were concocted using severed parts of several planes, or just became hideous monsters! Should be an amusing topic for the summer doldrums, eh?

Tim

jacobite · Jul 04, 2001 05:06 AM

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I built one of the best-flying planes I ever had this way.
A couple of months before I emigrated from England to Oz I had no planes to fly ( I sold them all, like an idiot.......)
I had the remains of a SIG Mustang, good wings and the tail of a Mercury Crusader, chucked it onto a balsa plank to make the worse-looking plane you ever saw.
The tail looked HUGE compared to the wing.
Put a Fox36 on it.
As I say it flew really well.
Got 2 months good flying out of it.
A week before we left England I let a friend fly it.....
"yes I will be able to fly it, I used to do it as a kid."
Oh well, I saved the engine.....

Dave Moffitt

Tony Elmore · Jul 04, 2001 05:18 AM

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Hi Tim & Dave

Dave, did this plank have a u/c? - was it vaguely camouflage coloured?.

Tony

jacobite · Jul 05, 2001 08:36 AM

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LAST EDITED ON Jul-05-01 AT 09:09 AM (EST)

Tony
If I remember ( it WAS 20 yrs ago...) it had silver wings with Invasion stripes ( I do that on most of my planes ) a silver tail ( because the planes I crashed were like that )and the fuselage was the most horrible gold colour, I didn't even put a "canopy" on it. I didn't even fuel-proof it...
I THINK it had wheels.
It would do anything I wanted, point the handle anywhere in the sky and it would go there.
Possibly the reason I enjoyed it so much was that I didn't care if I crashed it as it was expendable anyway.... A Lesson here, that made it a good trainer.
I don't think many people at the Hemel Hempstead club saw it.
I'll always have a soft spot for that plane, it's last flight was the last time I flew in England, I dumped the remains in a bin and walked away ( yes, I kept the engine, still have it, a Fox36 )
On another note, is the " Magic Roundabout" still there at Hemel ?

Dave Moffitt

Tim, seem to have moved from your original question a bit, sorry.
However I am surprised you didn't get many replies, don't we all do what I did with my Mustang/Crusader ?????

elmores · Jul 05, 2001 09:11 AM

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LAST EDITED ON Jul-05-01 AT 09:19 AM (EST)

I guess you may suspect what's coming.

I remember seeing such a model flown at Rotax's field but it had no u/c - I can remember running rather hard to hand launch it.

It had a plank fuse - no canopy but my (dodgy) memory tells me it had yellow underside and green on top and the fuse was unpainted. And that is was pretty heavy. And it certainly had a Fox on it but I though a 35 stunt. BUT I COULD BE WRONG!

I'm fairly certain that the model I remember and your model are one and the same and therefore we have met.

Have you ever had a large sailplane or did I ever sell you a Super Tigre G20/15D with a dodgy comp screw?

Yes the telephone dial roundabout is still there you can go almost anywhere in the UK and when you mention Hemel Hempstead usually the reply is 'Oh! that's the place with the funny roundabout'.

Tone

ps I also seem to recall that the guy was a computer engineer!

bb36dd966 · Jul 04, 2001 09:02 AM

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I took the wing from a Vodoo and stuck it into a profile fuselage of a Cessna T34 Mentor and flew it in Carrier Profile. Wrong move. It would stall at slow speeds. No flaps. High speed. Ha ha ha. Looked good because of the paint job. End of that plane. I have also taken wings from carshed Ringmasters and built new but different fuselages. Boy, get one degree off on the incidence angle (zero incidence by the way) and that plane was impossible to trim. Supposed to be a trainer for the kid downstairs. Now I know why he took up trains. I wil not even mention my very first plane from the parts of unbuilt kits, as they were for free flight. More like free stall over the alfalfa.