Comet Aeronca K

[MZ250Ben]

I Snagged a pile of these kits for winter, all in fantastic condition.

No die or laser cut, it's knife and file.

 

[Piotrsko]

Hmmm they went to punched out parts. Maybe bought by Guillow?

Air knocker is a proper kit from them. I approve.

 

[MZ250Ben]

It only took me 2 hours to cut most of the parts out. Haven't built a cut-it-yourself kit since the very first kit I ever built, which I believe was the Comet Spad. This is a real test of my bifocals.

 

[MZ250Ben]

 

[Piotrsko]

Hmm not that many cut out parts on the plans, but I couldn't build one because my patience is now retrogressing back to my childhood levels of none.
Didn't notice an end game for this. I recall it can't be made RC without extensive rework

 

[bisco]

looking good! i love building with balsa, but i'm terrible at coverings

 

[MZ250Ben]

Hmm not that many cut out parts on the plans, but I couldn't build one because my patience is now retrogressing back to my childhood levels of none.
Didn't notice an end game for this. I recall it can't be made RC without extensive rework

Comet wasn't nice enough to give patterns of the parts on the plans for when you screw one up, which I did, but had enough of the remains to duplicate them reasonably. They squeezed nearly every part on to ONE sheet of balsa, some of the lines nearly overlap. The nose sections are on a separate small sheet of 1/8". I was just going to build this for display or rubber power, but I bet I can get it to fly RC with one of those little "brick" combos from Buzzard. I dunno. I have 5 more of these Comet kits on the shelf, I should probably RC one with wheels rather than floats.

 

[Bricks]

I built a few of those back in the late 50`s and early 60`s only ever rubber powered them. Using a brick it would make a fantastic indoor flyer you should go for it would luv to see it done.

 

[MZ250Ben]

Here's a few more of the kits I snagged. The only one with die-cut parts is the newer zero/corsair kit 😳The seller threw in the Comet Taylorcraft for $10. That's a 54" span model. Looking forward to that Ercoupe, she had 2 of those.

 

[MZ250Ben]

I built a few of those back in the late 50`s and early 60`s only ever rubber powered them. Using a brick it would make a fantastic indoor flyer you should go for it would luv to see it done.

Already ordered the brick and a few 1s batteries...

 

[bisco]

looks like enough kits to get you through retirement

 

[cyclone3350]

OMG U R bringing back some memories of my early building years. My top three FF models was the Comet Sparky, the SR 7 and the 54in Taylorcraft. That SR 7 was a fantastic scale FF flyer and is on my list of conversions. I did the Taylocraft back in '06 and still fly it today. Originally done in silkspan and dope, but had to re cover it in Monkote due to hanger rashes. Keep posting.

 

[Piotrsko]

Wow.

 

[MZ250Ben]

wings and fuse *mostly* together. I added the diagonal bracing in the fuse. This wood is so old and dry, there's virtually no weight to anything so far.

 

[MZ250Ben]

All framed out! Total weight of all components so far (rx w/esc &2 actuators, battery and motor included): 30 grams. The framework itself is only 10 grams of that.

 

[bisco]

the maiden is gonna be a blast

 

[Piotrsko]

the maiden is gonna be a blast

Before or after?

 

[Bricks]

What are you going to cover it with?

 

[MZ250Ben]

What are you going to cover it with?

The tissue paper that came in the kit and some very watered-down Elmer's glue.

 

[MZ250Ben]

Today I got the tail mocked up and built the nose block/ motor mount. That little rx is actually 4 channel and has battery telemetry.