My Plans

Introduction

Having put quite a bit of development time and effort into designing/building/testing SPAD planes that fly well, and having my arm twisted by Club members, I decided to make them available to all, so here they are ;

Note that these planes have to go through the "approval" test.  After I am happy with the performance, which usually takes some further development from the MK 1 version, they are test flown by experienced Club Members.

Their comments have been reproduced here as well as on the plans so it's a known performance machine you are building.

1) Kombat Train MK4

Kombat Train is a stable Novices or Experts Combat plane.  

The 48" version is for Novices and the 44" version is for Experts.

Tested by K. Hitchen

Stability :- Very Good

Speed :- Very Good

Loops and Rolls :- Very Good

Glide :- Very Good

Hand Launch Stability :- Very Good

Overall Impression :- Very Good

Tested by R. Stephens

Stability :- Good

Speed :- Enough

Loops and Rolls :- Quick Loops

Glide :- Superb

Hand Launch Stability :- Fine

Overall Impression :- Excellent

No build pictures version         -   Download here      :   

(file is 280K Adobe Acrobat .pdf file so the reader has to be installed on your PC)               

Full build pictures version       -     Download here     :   

(file is 4.10Mb Adobe Acrobat.pdf file)

2) Viper MK4

The Viper is a stable Combat platform but is designed to be lighter and quicker than KT4. It turns quicker and loops and rolls tighter than KT4. Most noticeable is a big increase in speed and control sensitivity, without being "twitchy".

No build pictures version         -   Download here      :   

(file is 290K Adobe Acrobat.pdf file)