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PBY
Catalina #542EL |
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Model
Specifications: Scale •44" = 12"
Span: 44" Length 27•75"
Wing Area 270 sq in Power (FF): KP-02
Prop: 6 1/2dia Batteries: 4 cell nicad 110
mah
Power (RC): MPI g
eared Prop 6 1/2" dia
Batteries: 7 cell nimah 280 mah
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US ORDERS
$84.95
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Affectionately called "Dumbo." No design can challenge the PBY
for being the most successful flying boat ever produced. In
fact, she out produced all other flying boats combined. So
successful was the Catalina that she was dubbed the Sea Going
Workhorse of WW2. Currently there are still a large number of
original 3,300 produced still flying.
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1909
Wright Military Flyer #537EL |
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Power Pack EPP-2
$109.95 US
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Specifications -
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Wingspan: 41.5" Length: 31.75"
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Wing area: 530 sq. in.
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Weight: 14.1 ounces Wing loading:
3.8 oz/sq. ft.
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Power: 2 - 5.9:1 geared electric
motors, 2 - electric flyer props
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1 - 5 amp BEC speed
controller, 1 - 8 cell battery pack.
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US ORDERS
$69.95 +
$109.95 Power Pack
$179.90
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Foreign
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$90.94 +
$119.05 Power Pack
$210.89
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US ORDERS
With Out Power
Pack
$69.95
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Foreign Orders
With Out Power Pack
$102.95
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By 1907 the Wright brothers had developed a truly practical powered
airplane. They also knew the airplane would be useful in a military
role. As a result, the 1909 Military Flyer was built.
The '09 was a smaller plane then the '06, with a wingspan of 36.5 feet, in
an attempt to reach speeds of 40mph. They accomplished this using the 35
hp four cylinder inline engine. The result of their effort was the first
airplane in the United States inventory.
The Dare Design radio controlled 1909 Wright Military Flyer faithfully
represents the world's first military aircraft. A new airfoil was
developed for use on the '09 Flyer to make it honest, docile and a truly
"flyable" replica of the famous Wright brothers plane. We have included
vacuum formed parts for building a scale engine for this airplane. The
finished engine can be very striking in detail. The Dare kit features
all laser cut parts, covering tissue, full size plans, Dare quality
balsa and hardwoods, etc.
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1903
Wright Type "A" Flyer #527EL - with or
without power pack
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Pat Tritle Design
Power Pack EPP-2
$109.95 US |
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US ORDERS
$69.95 +
$109.95 Power Pack
$179.90
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Foreign
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$90.94 +
$119.05 Power Pack
$210.89
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No additional
shipping & handling if ordered and shipped with optional, recommended Power
Package
Kit includes all laser cut parts using Dare balsa, the best
in the industry. Also included are full-size plans, covering tissue,
complete instructions, rigging thread and vacuum-formed parts to build a
scale-like engine for your model. Engines and power pack available
separately.
It's hard to
believe the Wright Type "A" Flyer could be so stable, honest or consistent,
but the Dare Design R/C model is all of that. As far as we know, the
Dare designed 1903 Wright Flyer are the only proven
flying model ever designed and manufactured by a model airplane
company.
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US ORDERS
With Out Power
Pack
$69.95
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Foreign Orders
With Out Power Pack
$102.95
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Piper
J-3 Cub #535EL |
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Pat Tritle Design
Kit Features:
All Laser cut parts - The best balsa in the industry - Full size plans -
Vacuum formed cowl - Easy to read instructions and wiring diagrams - wire,
hardware and other necessary materials.
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Specifications
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Span: 60.75"
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Length: 37.6"
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Area: 535 sq. in.
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Weight: 24 oz.
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Wing Loading: 6.5 oz/sq.ft
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Power: 6V speed 400/4:1 reduction and 11:7 prop on 7-800 to
1300mah AA cells.
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Radio: 3 channel model requires only
2 servos and 10 amps PSC with BBC
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Scale: 1/7
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US ORDERS
$89.95
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The
Dare Piper J-3 Cub was designed for the modeler looking for a little
more than a simple 3 channel model. The new Dare Cub was designed for
simple, low cost geared speed 400 operation but, with scale dihedral and
allerons for some serious scale flying. At 61" wingspan, the new Cub
is big enough for the serious modeler to add lots of scale details, yet
small enough to show well when built straight from the box.
To answer the
modelers requests, the Dare Cub is not just another Cub. Designed
around the 4:1 5-400 drive, the 4 channel Cub is lightly loaded (6.5 oz/sq.ft.)
to fly slow and scale like -- and with flight times over 20 minutes!
But there's more!
For the modeler who still likes the simplicity of a 3 channel model too.
No matter what your tastes in modeling, the new Dare J-3 Cub will measure up
to the task. |
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Havilland Mosquito B MK-4 #541EL |
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Mike Midkiff Design
This all laser cut parts kit is one of our best
designs yet! Many quality vacuum- formed parts come with the
kit as well as the "right color" covering tissue!
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Specifications
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True Scale: 3/4" = 12"
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All Laser Cut Parts
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Wing Span: 40"
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Length: 31"
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Wing Area: 285 sq. in.
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Weight (Airframe): 5.6 oz.
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Power: 5.9:1 geared electric motor
KP-02 electric for free flight
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3/16" FAI Tan II for rubber power
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US ORDERS
$79.95
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Foreign Orders
$116.81
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Macchi M-5
#543EL
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Mike Midkiff Design
Power Pack EPP-18
$75.00 US
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Specifications
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Wing Span: 34.5"
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Length: 23.5"
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Wing Area: 230 sq. in.
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Weight (F/F): 8 oz.
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Weight (R/C) 11 oz.
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Wing loading (F/F) .035 oz/sq.in
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Wing loading (R/C) .048 oz/sq.in.
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Motor: Dare/MPI3.5:1 ratio micro gear drive with a 7 x 6
prop.
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US ORDERS
$54.95
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$82.16
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 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).
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Bristol Scout #548EL |
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Peter Rake Design |
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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. |
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US ORDERS
$63.95
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FOREIGN ORDERS
$88.63
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True-Scale Design
Kit includes: 134 laser cut parts,
full-size plans, AAA grade balsa, rigging, laser cut wheel
parts, scale vac-formed wheel covers (like in the pictures). |
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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. |
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The Dare 60"
Ercoupe #546EL Introductory
Price |
The Ercoupe is probably
one of the best-known light planes of its era. It was also a very
efficient airplane with its smooth metal skin and streamlined engine
cowling. It was also very easy to fly since all the controls were
operated from the steering wheel, and due to the coupled rudder and
ailerons, no rudder coordination was needed.
Our model was designed as a slow, docile electric Park Flyer, and
faithfully represents the flying qualities of its full-scale
counterpart. Though a rather large model, the Dare Ercoupe is very
light, so can be flown in smaller parks and soccer fields, yet is
large enough to be flown at regulation flying fields as well.
The Dare Ercoupe features 4-channel control (Aileron, Elevator &
Nose Wheel Steering). Due to the aileron design, the model has no
adverse yaw, so the complexity of hooking up the twin rudder linkage
isn’t necessary, to simplify both building and flying the Dare
Ercoupe.
This contest quality design is another of the many, many Dare Design
kits from the design studio of Pat Tritle. As with all Dare kits, we
feature precision laser cut parts and contest quality sheet and
stick balsa, landing gear wire, full size plans, acetate, and some
basic hardware |
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Specifications: Span: 60” Length:
35.5” Wing area: 529 sq. in. Flying wt: 25 ounces 4-channel R/C
Power recommendations: Brushed power: 6v Speed 400 w/4:1 geared
drive, 20A ESC, APC 11-7 prop and 7-cell, 1500 NiMH (2/3AA) battery
pack (10-12 min duration) |
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$119.95
99.95
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FOREIGN ORDERS
166.25
138.53
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Brushless power: 2409-18 (1000KV) Outrunner w/18A ESC, GWS 10-4.7
prop and
Evo 2500 2S Li-Poly battery (20-25 min duration)
Guidance: 3 Micro-servos (aileron (2), Elevator and Nose wheel
steering) |
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DC-6 Mainliner #554EL Introductory
Price |
Introducing a new kit
from Dare Design… DC-6 Mainliner…a Pat Tritle design
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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…
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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Pat Tritle design |
Specifications:
Span: 60.0” Length: 51 ¼” Area: 440 sq. in. Flying Weight: 26 – 28
oz.
Guidance: 4 channel R/C (R/E/T/A) – Micro Servos
Power: 4 - EPU4 – 4.2:1 gear drive motor units
4 - 8 x 6 props
1 - MX-9225 Controller (25 amp/BEC)
1 - Thunder Power 7.4 Volt, 2200 mah Li-Po Battery Pack |
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199.95
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FOREIGN ORDERS
$389.77
250.00
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Vacuum-formed parts…an outstanding
assortment of vac parts is included with this Dare Design kit. They
include the following:
Wing Fairings, Outboard Nacelles, Inboard Nacelles, Cowls,
Canopy/Windshield (it’s absolutely
beautiful!), Nose Cone, Scoop Set, and a “Detail Sheet” which
includes items such as scale-like Landing Gear Fairings, Nose Gear
Doors, a Flight Crew and a Flight Deck. |
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All Dare Design kits feature laser cut parts, all necessary
stick and sheet wood (balsa and hardwoods) of excellent
quality
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