Final Build Photos
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Submitted By | |
Scott Kruize | |
Tukwila, WA, United States | |
Build Information | |
Build Type | Plans-built |
Manufacturer/Brand Name | |
Aircraft Category | Sport |
Model name, number, and/or variant | Comet ‘Phantom Fury’ |
Wingspan/Rotor span (inches) | 29 |
Scale | (same as 1929 original design) |
Construction Type | Built up (wood/covering) |
Propulsion Type | Prop |
Power System | Other |
Propeller (if applicable) | PeckPolymers plastic 20cm / 8″ |
Radio System Brand and Model | n/a: Free Flight |
Number of channels utilized | 2 |
Channel functions | Rudder, Elevator |
Retracts or Fixed Gear |
Music-wire fixed landing gear instead of original design’s balsa/plywood/card-stock struts. Modern 3rd-party plastic wheels |
Cockpit/Interior Details |
Homemade instrument panel visible behind windshield, different shape from original design |
Paint, Covering or Graphics |
Wing, tail feathers: yellow gif-wrap tissue. Fuselage covered blue silkspan. Some dark blue iron-on polyester film trimming wing and fuselage |
Scale Accessories |
Only 3rd-party parts: plastic wheels, prop |
Light System |
n/a |
Smoke System |
n/a |
Sound System |
n/a |
Other Features or Options |
Wing is detachable from bamboo skewers set into fuselage cabin top. Rounded tips of flying surfaces done with basket-weave hobby cane stock. Rudder and elevators are hinged, with thin wire, to fin and horizontal stab, for fine-tuning plane’s Free Flight |
Further Description/Back Story |
The 1929 ‘Phantom Flash’, built a year ago, performs well indoors in the SeaTac Community Center gym. I was glad to come across an old Comet kit of its ‘bigger brother’, the ‘Phantom Fury’; same design ‘vintage’; kit dates from mid-60s. This has a full fuselage design, built primarily of 1/16th-inch-square stringer stock. This new one is all scratch-built, using lighter balsa than the kit’s, and bent-cane flying-surface tips. Overall weight now, complete, tissue covered, but without motor rubber, is two ounces. 29 inch span, 20 inch length; 91 square inches of wing area. I look forward to flying it soon, outdoors in parks, as the Pacific Northwest’s weather improves. |
Build Process Photos