{"id":7939,"date":"2025-10-27T00:32:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7939"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:16:46","slug":"kadetito-short-kit","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?product=kadetito-short-kit","title":{"rendered":"Kadetito short kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kadetito by Alex McLeod is a half size Kadet Senior, published in Model Airplane News in 1994.\u00a0 The plan is a big mess, so watch out when you build it.\u00a0 The first thing to note is that there is a significant bend in the fuselage drawing, which causes the stabilizer incidence to be slightly wrong.\u00a0 You could probably build the fuselage as shown and it would fly well, but it&#8217;s easy to fix.<\/p>\n<p>The top view of the fuselage doesn&#8217;t make any sense at all, so don&#8217;t try to match anything to it.<\/p>\n<p>The other major problem is that the size and aspect ratio of both sheets are incorrect.\u00a0 I have adjusted both sheets to make the rib match the wing saddle, and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kadetito39corrected.pdf\">download my corrected version here<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s still not exactly right, because the wheels aren&#8217;t round, but it&#8217;s good enough to build a nice little plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kadetito by Alex McLeod is a half size Kadet Senior, published in Model Airplane News in 1994.\u00a0 The plan is a big mess, so watch out when you build it.\u00a0 The first thing to note is that there is &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?product=kadetito-short-kit\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7941,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[39],"product_tag":[71,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/7939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=7939"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=7939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}