October...

     Glenn Binkley's Butterfly, a 1970's design -- a real floater

September...

                                                                                                              Andrew Tickle

Mike Shreve's elegant T28, Tuesday 8 September. Fast, smooth and aerobatic.  The color scheme is effective  --  the plane disappeared in the sky over the north end of the field a couple of times.                         

August....    

 Larry Gustafson's sharp looking Sig Rascal                      Andrew Tickle

The Rascal departs on its maiden flight and immediately shows its famous stall left, stall right, stall left..... flight pattern. Only Larry's careful flying brought it safely back to the runway. He does not plan to fly it again until he has increased the power. 

The Rascal is a great flyer, but you have a tiger by the tail when it's close to the stall. You can tame it by adding washout to the wing tips. Just twist the trailing edge up and heat with an iron or hot air gun.

Larry after hair raising maiden flight.

Julio calls this his Frankenstein plane because he made it from parts from several planes.  Powered by a 60 it is a rock solid flyer.

Inspired by Julio's successful mixture of airplane parts, Andrew put together parts from three different planes to test a design idea. The combination proved it could fly well with very little power. So the new design has started and will be a very light weight Aeronca Scout.

July