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Many notable individuals in the 1960s through the 1990s and beyond created the landscape of modern RC modeling. These included many starting their own companies. The families of many of these individuals lost interest in continuing these businesses. The incoming supply of ARF planes from overseas made it hard to sell kits requiring assembly.
It was an early complete-kit aircraft, sold with a pre-welded fuselage. Stits planned to deliver 100 kits to the German market for homebuilding. [2] Examples have been completed in the United States and in Europe. The SA-5 is a mid-wing, tricycle landing gear design with folding wings. The aircraft was intended to be towed by a vehicle by the ...
The Duane's Hangar Ultrababy (sometimes Ultra Baby) is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Duane Patrick and produced by Duane's Hangar of Liberty, South Carolina, introduced about 1997. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.
The Hipp's Superbirds J-3 Kitten and related designs are a family of single-engined, single seat, high wing conventional landing gear-equipped aircraft available in kit form or as plans from Hipp's Superbirds of Saluda, North Carolina. [1] [2] [3] [4]
They display models from every era of RC donated by the RC community around the world. They also have kit plans (aircraft blueprints) that RC pilots can purchase to build models from every era. The museum is located on the same grounds that the Academy of Model Aeronautics main office is located. [5]
The Sky Baby was designed by Ray Stits and built with Robert H. Starr as a follow-on to the Stits Junior midget racer. The aircraft is an enclosed single engine negative staggered cantilevered biplane with conventional landing gear. The fuselage is constructed of welded steel tubing with aircraft fabric covering.
The first aircraft to be offered for sale as plans, rather than a completed airframe, was the Baby Ace in the late 1920s. [ 7 ] Canada's first homebuilt aircraft, Stitts SA-3A Playboy CF-RAD, first flown in 1955, seen in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum .
Data from Company website, AeroCrafter, Kitplanes and Cliche General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: 250 lb (113 kg) useful load, no passengers Length: 17 ft 9 in (5.41 m) Wingspan: 28 ft 0 in (8.54 m) Height: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Wing area: 116 sq ft (10.79 m 2) Empty weight: 250 lb (113 kg) Max takeoff weight: 500 lb (226 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Hirth F-33 Single cylinder, two-stroke piston ...