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Aquarius, Royal
It was sold by Royal in 1973 before royal started putting their name mostly on Marutaka kits. After that most kits sold under the Royal name were made by Marutaka. Royal was open about the fact they manufactured nothing. On everything they sold it said service is our only product. He could not say who ktited this model but was sure it was not Marutaka. It was designed by M.R.M. that too is an unknown to me. It is 1330 mm long, wing span 1720mm, wing area 46.4dm 2/, weight 2.7-3.3kg,engine 60-61.

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Derringer: Here is a little of the Derringer history. Official name Derringer 1 - 60
It was designed by Harry Taylor using the name Harry Taylor Model in Fountain Valley
Ca.
He did not date the plans but I suspect it had to be 1975-'76 because it was
manufactured in Maylasia. He used the Bridi Dirty Birdy to base the design on. He
tried marketing the kit as a ARC. There was too much competition in southern Ca.
with Bridi, Kraft and Craft-air.
The first time I saw the plane (1978) was at a Pattern contest at Mile Square in Ca.
He told me it was designed around a Clarence Lee K & B 61 PDP pumper. It flew very
well on the engine. Extremely fast. Landed too fast.
I bought all of his complete inventory in 1979 including original plans, books and
art work.. All of the kits that I purchased have been sold as of 2001. He did sell
some of the extra parts to a man in Los Angeles.
Wing span 64. area 702. covered 1/16 over foam
Stab span 26.5 area 194 covered 1/16 over foam
Fuse Lg 57.5 Target weight was 8 lbs.
All parts precut and sanded to shape.

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The New Era 20 was originally named the New Era III by designer Don Dewey. Its name was changed in 1982 when the aircraft was upgraded with a stronger fuselage and other refinements.

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Peppermint Pattie:
Here's the complete evolution of all the Peppermint Patties:

Niris: I have a print of the original plan w/ some notes - no date on the plans. It was published, however, in Model Aviation October 1975.

Niris II: a copy of the original plans, with notes for versions III, IV, V, and VI. Changes noted were engine mount, Aileron placement and shape, rudder cross-section, and the like. Funny thing, I don't remember building all these versions. Unfortunately, no dates are on the plans.

Major fuselage changes generated the Peppermint Pattie .60 - I have the original plans, with a note that they were modified in 11/79. Then I found the Peppermint Pattie II ! This is what Master Kit produced, but that was after it was sold from CT to the Midwest somewhere. It was dated 12/81. Notes on the plan state the nose was lengthened 1" for a 16 oz tank, the tail 2" for lateral area, bottom of fuse was made parallel to thrust line for increased side area (read smoother knife edges) Main gear changed to make retract and fixed gear placement the same, gear lengthened 1/2" for ground clearance, and lastly, the fuse doubler was extended beyond the wing TE to disperse forces. (must have been a crash breakage point?) The .60 Pattie was marketed as "the pattern ship of the '80's"

Now let's back up to the .15 Pattie: Published in March 1978 R/C Sportsman. I have early photos of my first one, which differ from the Masterkit version. I have a photo of me hand launching it at Rocky Hill. Sadly, I could not find my original plans. I think I gave them to M/K to reproduce, they might have had the same sort of notes I put on the other plans as I evolved each design.

Pattie .40: I have the original plans, dated 7/79. Sadly, I only built one of them, and didn't like the way it flew. It needed stab anhedral to prevent a pitch problem in knife edge, I remember clearly having to cut the stab and make the modification. After one season, I sold it at the WRAMS show. I remember doing it after Rhett Miller won the Nats with a .40 Contendor(?)

By the way, my current .15 Pattie is done like Ed Kasmirski's Taurus, MAN Jan '63 cover. And yes, I had one of those, too.
Nic Damuck

	Updated 1-1-2010		Classic Pattern Plane List							est. June 2008
	previous update 9-5-2009
	I am compiling a list of classic pattern planes. I have combined my list of planes with the list of SPA legal planes from the seniorpattern.com website. This list will complement the image-base and eventually link with the pictures there (if one exists). I would appreciate everyone's help in making this list as complete as possible. I'd also like your input in determining the cut-off date for planes that qualify as classic and contributing specs and images for the one's that are lacking. Submissions can be made using the guestbook link or directly to the thread I started on RCUniverse. Let me know if I need to make any corrections. Text in blue are recent changes and additions as of the last update. Thanks!!! CASniffer										Classic Pattern Page
	Plane		Designer	Engine	Wingspan	Length	Area	Weight	Circa	Kitted/Plans	Misc	Ebay
1	A6 Intruder	SPA	Kirkland	.60					1971	MAN March and April of 1971	Carolina Aircraft
2	A6 Intruder (Airborne Models)
3	Accustar	SPA
4	Aero Master Bipe	SPA
5	Aerobat
6	Aerostar
7	Allegro	SPA
8	Alpha		Dominic Palumbo	.45	53	48	525	4.5	1980	Model Aviation
9	Altair	SPA
10	Amansua	SPA
11	Ambassador	SPA
12	Anonymous		Jimmy Greer							might be a modeled after the Tiger Tail
13	Apogee		Tom Brett
14	Apollo	SPA
15	Aquarius[1]		M.R.M	.60	67	1330	719	2.7-3.3kg	1973	Royal (see bottom of page for more)
16	Ariel		Guy Hansen						1994-5	Dick Hansen Models	Rich Lee has molds now. http://pages.prodigy.net/ka9lnp/rl.htm
17	Aristo Cat	SPA	Bud Atkinson	.45	62.5	48	770	6.5	1964	Midwest Products, Inc.	Class II winner at the 1965 Nationals
18	Arrow		Gunther & Wolfgang Matt	.61	63	54	712	7.7-8.8	1978	MK Kato, Osaka - 1979 F3A World Champion
19	Astro Hog	SPA	Fred Dunn	.35	71	51	830	7-7.5		Sig
20	Astro Hog	SPA	Fred Dunn	.35	72	50	824		1957	Berkeley Kit #16-4
21	Atlanta			.61	65.25	58.5	775	8.6-9.25		Golden Gate Hobbies and Zigzaw
22	Atlas	SPA	Gunther & Wolfgang Matt	.61	65	52.5		7.5	1974
23	Atlas 20
24	Atomic		Franz Weiberger	8-10cm	1500	1360		2800g	1974	Fiberglass fuselage, foam core wing	Plans here
25	Augusta MKII		Darrel Kampshor
26	Aurora (MK)		G. Naruke	.60	67	61	775	8-8.8		Stab Area 209
27	Aurora 25
28	Aurora 45 (MK)		G. Naruke & M. Kato	.45	62	56	667	6.6-7.0
29	Avanti	SPA	Donald A. Grassi	.60	60		638		1974
30	Avatar		Donald A. Grassi	.40-.46	54 1/2	46	520			RCM
31	Avenger	SPA
32	Baby Birdie			.074	37		200			Global Quality Kits
33	Banshee (Eureka)	SPA	Jim Martin	.60	62	49.75	630	6.5-7.5(rt)		J&J Industries, Flying Models 9-71 Plan CF236	Plans here for Europeans
34	Bar Fli	SPA	Phil Kraft	.60					1967	MAN 1967
35	Beachcomber	SPA	Jim Kirkland						1963	Veco Products Inc. Burbank, Ca. MAN May 1963
36	Beatnick		Dick Sonheim & Cliff Love	.60	66		705		1969