RADIO CONTROL GIANTS ALTHOUGH THERE never doubt its nice statistics show Giant Scale stay its dominant force both sport competition Scale RC flying Forty-four contestants entered 1993 Scale Masters Championship conducted Scale Squadron southern California Orange Coast Radio Control Club Thirtyfive 80% flew Giants Five nine non-Giant models contest jets ducted fans usually relatively small Eight top ten scorers including Dennis Crooks ultimate winner flew Giants Any questions like em big youve found friend Bob McLeod Pikes Peak RC Club Bobs building Giant Scale since 70s put together Bud Nosen Cessna 310 kit Since hes built /5Scale Waco quarter-Scale Fokker Triplane well Fokker DVIII same Scale Giant air force also includes J-3 Cub PT-19 P-51 giant Sweet & Low crowning achievement latest model 40% Aeronca Champ Therein lies fascinating story Keith Harris another Pikes Peaker showed up club meeting beautiful A-Scale Piper Cub floats outdone size race Bob broke out roll butcher paper dusted off overhead projector drew plans 14-foot-span Airknocker figured horizontal stabilizer removable could unplug wing panels whole works would just fit bed pickup truck As turned out 8-foot 8-inch fuselage did fitat angle As Giant developed Bob calculated would need big power plant installed Aerrow QlOO six-cubicinch displacement bolted 24 x 12 prop after covered lightweight aircraft Seconite painted dope enamel large license numbers seemingly endless wing cut white contact paper Bob painted black model ready fly Bob found weighed exactly 50 pounds Rather use redundant battery pack went whole hog installed two receivers same frequency receiver controls left aileron left elevator coupled servos waggle rudder other receiver covers right side aircraft well throttle Most importantly big Aeronca flies like real thing Its stunning air January column addressed difficulty drilling mounting holes have install RC engine beam mounts Cooling fins exhaust pipe always seem way Two readers came 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