1/4 Scale Midget Mustang Build
After I re-engined my Ripmax Bossanova by fitting the Saito FA-125AGK, I had a spare Saito FA-91 so I started looking for a project to put it in. My requirements were simple - I thought:
Nice looking - subjective I know, but it had to look like a plane!
Fixed undercarriage - I didn't need another set of retracts!
Flaps - to slow landings at 6000 ft altitude
A cowl to hide my Saito 91
A smallish wingspan - under 2m
Easily obtained plan.
Lots of research later I settled on a Midget Mustang - it met all the requirements especially when I found I had a plan (a free plan from the October 2006 edition of RCM&E). Now I needed a suitable colour scheme - a web search later and I'd found Red 1 or ZK-DDC, owned and flown by Ivan Krippner in New Zealand. All the pictures of Red-1 in these pages are from Ivan's web site.
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Midget Mustang ZK-DDC was hand built from blueprints by Jack Reeves.
Finished in September 1975, it took 5 years to complete. It is powered by a 100 horse power Rolls Royce engine with a 60 inch - 68 pitch wooden propellor. Jack figured it cost him about $6000 plus a lot of time. |
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