The original 48 inch Headmaster by Ken Willard was published in RCM magazine. \u00a0Later it was offered as a kit by Top Flite. \u00a0There are slight differences between the two plans, both of which are available from Outerzone. \u00a0My short kit is patterned after the Top Flite plan.<\/p>\n
The Top Flite kit had plastic wing tips. \u00a0My kit comes with 1\/4\u2033 balsa sheet wing tips. \u00a0You can either stretch your covering film over these tips, or add blocks on the top and bottom to make the fat round balsa wing tips commonly found on planes from that era.<\/p>\n
The kit comes with two firewalls. \u00a0One has notches for the engine beams as shown on the plan, and the other is without notches, for use with a nylon engine mount or whatever you mount an electric motor on. \u00a0You also get doublers for both installations.<\/p>\n
The wing can be built with either low or high dihedral. \u00a0Follow the plan instructions for high dihedral. \u00a0For low dihedral, the elevation is 7\/8\u2033 at both tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The original 48 inch Headmaster by Ken Willard was published in RCM magazine. \u00a0Later it was offered as a kit by Top Flite. \u00a0There are slight differences between the two plans, both of which are available from Outerzone. \u00a0My short … Continue reading