Back in the late 1980s, my hanger favorites were the Great Planes Ultra Sport 40 and the Direct Connections F-20 Tigershark. The F-20 was the fastest plane I had ever flown at the time. It flew really fast (I'm guessing 90mph which was super fast to me then), had nearly unlimited vertical, tracked like it was on rails, and would slow nicely for easy, nose high landings. Even with that bulky engine and muffler hanging off the nose, it still looked great on the ground and better in the air. I've looked high and low for a picture of mine from back then with no luck. Unfortunately, I don't even recall taking one so I don't think one exists.
Anyway, one day I was making a low, high speed, inverted pass down the runway (can you see where this is going??). With inverted flying being a relatively new skill I had achieved, or so I thought, I got a little nervous about how low I was as it went by and 'pulled' straight down into the tarmac at full throttle. The usual spectacular cloud of splinters emerged from terra-firma followed by the 'sorry about that' and 'what happened?' from my buddies. After several days of mourning, I moved on to other RC aviation endeavors but said to myself, 'one day I'm going to build another one!!' Well, 25yrs later that day has finally arrived ...
Let me start this build log by thanking Derek Staha of JunoRC for picking up and faithfully reproducing the DC line of aircraft and making the F-20 kit available. The aerodynamic design and flight qualities of
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