Bipeguy03
150cc
Building season is once again upon us, and for me it's time for another scratch built bipe.
Some of you may remember during my Krier Kraft build, that a friend of my Grampa Micky gave me boxes full of plans and molds for some of the airplanes that he and grampa built in the 80s. In those boxes were the plans and the cowl molds for the Kool Kanary.
The Kool Kanary, which was designed by Leon Schulman is just a large scale version of the Top Flight Hot Kanary, and for most of this thread I'll refer to mine as a Hot Kanary. The plans are still available through Model Airplane News if anyone is interested.
So, mine will actually be another Grampa copy. He didn't actually build his, rather rebuilt it from a wreck he bought at a fly-inn. After watching the previous owner doing touch and go loops all day, he finally figure 9'd it. After he stripped the goodies he sold the remnants to papaw. Papaw's intent was to rebuild it and give it to my dad for his first giant scale airplane. But, it didn't quite work out.
During the test flight, April 19th 1987 he lost the radio on climb out. It pitched over and dove straight down from 100 feet at wide open throttle. Not even the tail wheel was salvageable.
So, I'm going to tempt the model airplane gods and try it again 30 years later. One of the biggest reasons for giving it a try is for story that has been told about the Kanary since the day I was born... Yeup, THE day... Because mere hours after that Faithful test flight attempt, I was born.
Here are a few pictures of Grampa's Kanary. Just like the Krier Kraft, I'll be copying his pretty closely.
Most all of the pictures we have of the Kanary were from before it was finished. The only completed pictures we have of it were from the Winter Model Show his club had at the local JVS.
At that show, grampa's and his buddy's Hot Kanarys. His friends paint scheme was exactly the opposite of his. And the Bud Nosen Citabria behind them was my dad's. My dad's Citabira won a trophy at that show, and he thinks he can't build
More pics to come shortly.
Some of you may remember during my Krier Kraft build, that a friend of my Grampa Micky gave me boxes full of plans and molds for some of the airplanes that he and grampa built in the 80s. In those boxes were the plans and the cowl molds for the Kool Kanary.
The Kool Kanary, which was designed by Leon Schulman is just a large scale version of the Top Flight Hot Kanary, and for most of this thread I'll refer to mine as a Hot Kanary. The plans are still available through Model Airplane News if anyone is interested.
So, mine will actually be another Grampa copy. He didn't actually build his, rather rebuilt it from a wreck he bought at a fly-inn. After watching the previous owner doing touch and go loops all day, he finally figure 9'd it. After he stripped the goodies he sold the remnants to papaw. Papaw's intent was to rebuild it and give it to my dad for his first giant scale airplane. But, it didn't quite work out.
During the test flight, April 19th 1987 he lost the radio on climb out. It pitched over and dove straight down from 100 feet at wide open throttle. Not even the tail wheel was salvageable.
So, I'm going to tempt the model airplane gods and try it again 30 years later. One of the biggest reasons for giving it a try is for story that has been told about the Kanary since the day I was born... Yeup, THE day... Because mere hours after that Faithful test flight attempt, I was born.
Here are a few pictures of Grampa's Kanary. Just like the Krier Kraft, I'll be copying his pretty closely.
Most all of the pictures we have of the Kanary were from before it was finished. The only completed pictures we have of it were from the Winter Model Show his club had at the local JVS.
At that show, grampa's and his buddy's Hot Kanarys. His friends paint scheme was exactly the opposite of his. And the Bud Nosen Citabria behind them was my dad's. My dad's Citabira won a trophy at that show, and he thinks he can't build
More pics to come shortly.
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. Your shop looks fantastic 
