Marty,
The 'slickest' No-Cal that I ever witnessed was a little known
airplane, the Heinkel He-119-V3. The late, Ted Dock flew this and got
marvelous times. The a/c dimensions were wonderful. Lots of wing area
with dihedral, narrow fuselage, long nose (incidently there is lots of
glass in the nose for mylar to cover to save mass). Of note, Ted used a
rolled tube for the motor stick that was simply split down the center
for superior torsional resistence while saving weight.
As far as plans are concerned, I would not have a source although any 3-
view can be quickly made into a plan.
BTW, Ted and I were in the process of creating a Battle of Britain No-
Cal flight presentation when Ted became ill. We had been doing
assemblies for middle schools that included history science and math
for a few years and the 60 aniversery was coming up for the B-o-B.
I did see his Hawker Hurricane and it was a beaut. He covered the model
with green tissue and then brushed some bleach in the appropriate spots
and had a camo covering that was 'spot-on'! It flew like a dream but
would not have been competitive. In fact we tried to keep flights down
around 1 minute so that we could fit over 30 airplanes in the 40 minute
program.
Regards,
Tom Sanders
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Marty Sasaki <marty@...>
wrote:
>
> Time to start making more models. I've finished a new F1M, had to make
> a new stab for my LPP. I'm going to use an overweight F1M motorstick
> for a new OPP. The A6 should be fun to fly.
>
> I've got a Cassutt on the board, but want to try a lightweight nocal
> as well. Any suggestions for a lightweight nocal? Good source for
> plans for the recommended model(s)?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Marty Sasaki
>
Received on Mon Mar 05 2007 - 08:47:05 CET
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