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 Macchi M-5  #543EL 

 Mike Midkiff Design

Power Pack EPP-18
$75.00 US

• Batteries: 5 cell/50 mah F/F or 7 cell NiMh - 220 mah

• Speed Controller: Dare/MPI9105/BEC

This true scale model can be built and flown as a free flight electric or an electric RC using rudder and elevator along with speed control.

Construction is conventional "Stick 'n' Tissue method.  The kit includes all laser cut parts of the highest quality balsa, full-size rolled plans, Dare covering tissue, aluminum tube, foam for floats, rigging material and a beautiful vacuum-formed Isotta Franchsi motor kit and headrest (designed by Keith Sparks).

Bristol Scout #548EL  

Peter Rake Design

 • Span:36.0"
 • Length: 28.0"
 • Area:420 sq.in.
 • Weight: 8-20oz
 • Scale: 1:8.2 -
 • W/Loading: 6:17-6.8oz/sq.ft.
 • Power 2.33:1 Geared  Speed
   400 Electric Motoron 7-Ni-Cad
 • Control Functions: Rudder,    elevator, Throttle and optional ailerons.  Required mini or micro servos.

The Bristol Scout was one of the great unsung heroes of WW1. In service too early to be effectively armed, nonetheless its’ pilots improvised in some interesting fashions. Thus, your model may be left totally unarmed, or equipped with anything from a rifle to a Vickers gun. Just about everything was tried, including a canister of steel darts to be dropped on troop concentrations. A fine flying machine, many officers kept one as a personal run-about after the type was withdrawn from service.
 
Our new model emulates the fine flying qualities of the original and allows you scope with regards power set-up and control functions. Both geared and brushless motors have been used in the prototype models and they have been flown both with, or without ailerons. Scale dihedral is perfectly acceptable for either option.

The Dare 60" Ercoupe #546EL  Introductory Price

DC-6 Mainliner #554EL  Introductory Price

Introducing a new kit from Dare Design… DC-6 Mainliner…a Pat Tritle design
The DC-6 Mainliner was the predecessor to the DC-7, which was the last of the Douglas built piston driven airliners. The DC-6 went into service in 1947. The upgraded DC-6A and DC-6B were soon to follow, with a total of 362 airplanes built. The DC-6 variants remained in service until the early 50’s when the first jet airliners began to appear. More than 100 DC-6s remained in service into the 1980’s, and many are still flying today as cargo haulers and fire bombers.

The Dare kit…
The whole idea for the design was to build a relatively large “Park Flyer” to be flown with small, rather inexpensive power systems. Ultimately, the model ended up with a 60” wingspan. Since the model was designed around the GWS, IPS drive system, the structure needed to be light, yet strong enough to support its substantial size, but not become impossible to build in less than two lifetimes!
 
To fulfill those requirements, the basic fuselage and nacelle structures were designed as trussed balsa “boxes” with formers and stringers to fill out the airplane’s rounded shape. The wing structure incorporated upper and lower balsa main spars with a single “sheer web” in-between, which also provides s “self-jigging” feature to provide accurate rib spacing and vertical alignment. Several balsa stringers, top and bottom, provide stiffness to reduce span-wise flex. As with any light structure, the entire airframe working together provides strength far beyond any single component’s ability to support itself.
 
The basic wing frame, before covering, is not particularly rigid, but once the covering goes on, it gets good and stiff, and has not presented any problem with twisting under aileron loads or landing stresses.
 
The tail group is really quite conventional in structure, and is air foiled to provide plenty of “thickness” so to be self-supporting. As with the wing, the horizontal stab self-jigs to simplify the building process. The rudder and fin aren’t self-jigging, but an alignment gauge is used to insure proper rib alignment.
 
Since to model is very light, flaps aren’t necessary, and were not incorporated into the design. And for the sake of weight and simplicity, retracts were not incorporated ether.  The Dare DC-6 is not “hard to build”, but is by nature a complex design with a lot of parts; accurately laser cut (of course) which will thus speed up the building process considerably.
 
Flying the model…the DC-6 has proven itself to be a very smooth, stable, and docile flyer, and has turned out to be everything I had hoPed for going into the project. As I mentioned earlier, there is a good bit of building involved with this project, but I guarantee it’ll al be worth it the first time she flies.

Pat Tritle design