Control Line Scale Air Racer
AMA Plans Service Showcase
Find the entire feature on page 47 in the June 2011 issue.
Read an abridged summary relating to the article.FRANK BEATTY admired the classic fullscale air racer Chester Special and built a 16- inch-wingspan balsa-and-tissue Comet kit of the same name while in grade school. The airplane (and the model) became a favorite subject of his and he vowed to build a better model someday.
Frank began his design by using three-views from J.H. Robinson (featured in the 1959 Aeromodeler) as his main reference. Using Brodak Piper Cream and…