Schweizer Thermal Ships

[mmartin55]

After over a year of searching the internet and asking at hobby shops I gave up on finding a 2 meter to standard class Schweizer 1-26 so I started drawing plans for my own. You can see sample sections at lightfastgraphics.com/schweizer_126.html.

In the process I bought a Sterling Kit at auction (ouch!) for their 70" span now discontinued and have made duplicates of the plan pages and created patterns for the die cut parts for those who want to build this classic kit. I will be building both this one and scratch building my 2 meter size for slope and thermal soaring.

Hey if anyone is interested, send me an email. If we get enough I might make fiberglass fuselages availabe exact scale for several of the old Schweizers. I just got message that the factory blueprints are on the way for the Schweizer 2-32. I'll start drawing plans for that one as soon as the others are in the air.

Tom Martin

[John Gallagher]

Skybench Aerotech sells a builtup 120" span 1-26 kit.
http://www.skybench.com

[mmartin55]

John,

I looked at the Skybench partial kit extensively but if I was to do that I could just as well scratch build my own. Their web site is confusing since the picture they display of the 1-26 are clearly not the same ship they sell. Look to be standard class to me. I couldn't get any information on that particular model though. Looks like a bunch of bloody Englishmen or Scots huh?

Plus my criteria was no larger than 100". Just don't need anything that large and cumbersome on the slope. 60"-100" ships have always served me well.

Thanks,
Tom