Conquistador???

Does anyone remember or have info on a stunter called Conquistador?

I vaguely remember it as being bubble canopied and quite graceful but can't find anything else on it. Probably out of the 50's.

Jeff,

The Conquistador was originally in Model Airplane News August 1958.

Also, you can see the plans in the PAMPA publication "CLASSIC ERA CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS", compiled by Tom Morris on pp.51.

It is great looking...sort of Spitfire shape, a little more upright.

If you are really serious I have the issue of MAN, could dig it out and xerox the article for you...might take a week to find it, and OF COURSE, I really HATE rereading old model airplane magazines, but some one has to do it.

Meanwhile, some one not in the stone age who has a scanner could send you the article on line.

Hi Jeff,
Looking at the small plan, it looks a bit like an Argus, maybe. Very handsome. Elliptical wing, long tail arm, fuselage mounted gear. The plans also show dummy exhausts on the cowl like those of the Spitfire and a Torp 35.
Interestingly, American Modeler published Claire Sieverling's El Conquistador in March of the same year. It is more Nobler-like, though, than Hoffman's plane.
Kelvin

Kelvin:

Now that you mentio it, a Lot like the late mark bubble canopy Spitfires. Trouble is they mad lousy stunters.

Thanks for the scan/if you think to bring the article with next time up I'd still love to see it.

>Kelvin:
>
>Now that you mentio it, a Lot like the late mark bubble
>canopy Spitfires. Trouble is they mad lousy stunters.
Jeff

Ron B.
F4Fguy

As I recall Mark Freeman's was no slouch,nor was Mark(?)Blair's.Also Windy and Joe Adumusko might take issue with that statement.

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I've heard the comment made in other circles, replacing "stunter" with "model airplane". I suppose a close-to-scale Spitfire would have several things going against it, mainly the very thin wing and the small tail.

I'm sure Windy's Spitfire and Seafire fly well, but the proportions are completely off compared to the real plane. They're more like caricatures of the Spitfire (a caricature being a representation that exaggerates some features and makes others smaller) than scale models. I've not seen the others.

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Jeff,
I have the plans..and the article. Contact me.

Tom Niebuhr
[email protected]

>I've heard the comment made in other circles, replacing
>"stunter" with "model airplane". I suppose a close-to-scale
>Spitfire would have several things going against it, mainly
>the very thin wing and the small tail.
>
>I'm sure Windy's Spitfire and Seafire fly well, but the
>proportions are completely off compared to the real plane.
>They're more like caricatures of the Spitfire (a caricature
>being a representation that exaggerates some features and
>makes others smaller) than scale models. I've not seen the
>others.

Here's Mr. Freeman with his magnificent Spitfire. It is the best proportioned Spitfire stunt model I have seen and it has dihedral.

Jeff, HI!

We spoke quite a bit at Tucson, in March...

There was another similarly named stunter from that era, Sieverling's "el Conquistador" (MAN March '58). I flew one for several years at VSCs. (Lou Crane's little red airplane that Mike K made a fuss about --loaned it to him and it broke. I didn't blame him, he did <G>.)

Straight LE, smaller, basically Nobler-clone (weren't most of them, then?), sorta Goodyear-looking model. Builds light, flies very well on a decent Fox 35. I should have a set of plans around, if that's the one you were thinking of. If I can't locate the plans, I have the mag article, and TilePrint software. Should be able to blow up the article's page plan.

Best to yr Mrs, too!

>There was another similarly named stunter from that era,
>Sieverling's "el Conquistador" (MAN March '58).

Here's a picture of an upright engine "El Conc" that was flown at the Noblerthon this past weekend. It flew great.

There was one at the meet in Huntersville,NC this spring. I forget the gents name, but it is a very pretty airplane.

rotated

>rotated

Aw, you didn't like my square loop vesion? I'll have to be more careful next time.

THANKS GUYS!

Now that I've seen the drawings again it strikes me that some things do remember better than they live. That short nose, forward gear and thin airfoil would make life more interesting than I want to handle at my age, although it probably would balance with the heavy K&B 40s I like to run.

Anyway,
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