Here is a new quarter scale plan of Matty Laird's Immortal Golden Era Racer. It has two wings, a round engine and oozes class! Even though it is quarter scale, the wingspan is only 63 inches. The 13 inch cowl is big enough to hold any engine you might want to use.

The LAIRD SUPER SOLUTION Plan by Dr. Lyle F. Pepino, IMAA 1519 of Scale Plans and Photo Service (SPPS), 3209 Madison Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27403, Phone 1-919-292-5239. It is a follow-on of the Miles Magister M14. As reviewed in the Fall '83 issue of HIGH-FLIGHT and of the Gloster Gladiator, reviewed in the Summer '83 issue. See the SPPS Ad in this issue.

Price of the Laird Plan is $28.00 for 3 sheets rolled in a mailing tube and includes cut-a-way drawing and 3-Views. A photo documentation pack of 10 glossy 3 1/2" x 5" full color prints of the EAA Replica Super Solution is available for $15.00 P.P. from Scale Plans and Photo Service. This machine was built with the help and advice of Matty Laird and is authentic in every respect. Color-scheme is Viridian Green with Diana Creme wings and trim - gorgeous!

CONSTRUCTION: The fuselage is built around a stiff 1/4" balsa backbone or crutch, built flat on the plan. It should be next to impossible to build a banana-shaped fuselage! The bulkheads and ribs are balsa, the stringers and longerons are spruce. The plan shows a super tigre S-2000 engine mounted on a 1/4" plywood box bolted securely through the plywood firewall. By making the mounting box to suit, the plane can handle a wide range of engines.

The wing spars are 1" x 1/4" sitka spruce for the one piece top wing (63" span) and 1/4" x 3/4" for the bottom wing. There are a lot of ribs but they are all cut the same in each wing, cut from a metal template, the pattern which is provided. The cowl is 1/32" ply rolled around balsa and ply rings. The wheel pants may be built up of 1/4" balsa or made by fiberglassing over a foam core cut and sanded to shape. Melt the foam out with gasoline.

The plan shows a tailskid but the EAA machine uses a tailwheel and the tailwheel makes sense. Construction is beefy but simple and there is a lot of wing area in that stubby machine. C.G. is shown on the plan. The weight should come out under 22 pounds with a average engine, and under a weight of 20 pounds with the S-2000 should not be hard to reach.