plans

[mhmitchell333]

Hi,

Anyone know of a good source of reasonably priced scale sailplane plans 100" or so?

thanks,
mike

[MTT]

Could you narrow it down a bit more ? Vintage scale, modern, etc.
And what do you consider "reasonably priced" ?

[RCheroske]

The first place I would go to is RCM. They have a HUGE selection of plans for sale of every concevable type of sailplanes.

What do you have in mind? I have a box full of old building plans and I'm sure everybody else does as well. Let's see, the closest that I have to 100" is the 117" Bird of Time. But I'm going to keep that. But I suggest you get the plans for the BoT which is also sold by RCM (RC Modeler magazine).

[dougchambers]

Here are a couple I've used:

Mike Smart Designs (http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~msd/)

Quiet Flyer (http://www.semodeler.com/store/categories.php?categoryID=2)

I have a set of DFS Reiher 1:6 plans from each that I'm scanning for laser cut.

Doug

[Wight]

Good sources of plans form the UK, including a LOT of scale stuff, plenty in yuor size range:

http://www.traplet.com
(Quiet & Electric Flight International)

http://www.modelflying.co.uk
RCME and old Radio Modeller plans. Most plans show a pic of complete model and an idea of building complexity on this site.

[mhmitchell333]

Thanks for the links. On my "what if "board is a 1/5 scale AmEaglet (see Larry Haig on the net). Designed to be a self launching sailplane with better performance than a 1-26.

Someone killed or hurt themselves in one and the aircraft never caught on. Many claimed aircraft was unstable.

I had one started along with two other guys but I got transferred.
If I could I would buy anither ful size today. I flew one and I would say the guy that crashed just "lost it".