NOW ENTER THE BLOW TORCH ERA:
Jim Pepino, Scale Plans - Photo Service, 3209 Madison
Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27403, Phone 1-919-292-5239, sent me
a set of plans for a F-4 Phantom II for review. Now being a Golden
Era child, I do not make no truck with Jets! However I'll give it
my best shot. On looking over the plans, they look pretty good.
Naturally the fuselage and fin with rudder consume one plan
sheet. This sucker is BIG; I don't know what the scale is. The
fuselage is simple to build, being of light ply bulkheads jig glued
to a bottom sheet and then sheeted with 1/8 sheet balsa. A Gyro-Jet
unit is recommended, but a Webra .91 is also shown in the
nose. The canopy is cut from a Sig Long WW-II canopy. The
anhedral stab and fin plus rudder are from soft 3/8th sheet balsa.
Rohm retracts are shown. Now that I think of it, I have a nephew
in the Marines who told me this was what he was flying. The stories
this kid told me makes me glad that I'm a Golden Era child.
On this sheet is shown the wing and looks like an
oversized stab, however the airfoil section looks like it would create
lift and maybe contribute twenty-five percent lift, the other seventy-five
percent being thrust! I shouldn't say things like that, l apologize.
Wing is built up in the usual manner and sheeted. In all, this looks
like it would build into a very light missile and should go like a
scalded gazelle. There is also a full sized front view of this machine
and it sure looks wicked! If you like jets, you owe it to yourself
to investigate this plan from the above mentioned address.
