Description

Tom Mountjoy’s Tailwheel Trainer, also known as the TMTT, is not a scale model of anything, but it’s built like a scale model.  It has non-square fuselage formers, longerons, and a sheeted fuselage.  At the time most trainers and sport planes had tricycle landing gear and were considered easy to handle, so the idea was to give the scale competition guys a tail dragger that looked like it came from the 1930s to hone their skills before the scale contest.

The short kit comes with 4 degrees of dihedral on each side as shown on the plan, or 2 degrees for those who don’t like such high dihedral.  Let me know which one you prefer.

I think it’s cute, and it’s a good project for anybody who is ready to try building a plane that isn’t just a square box.