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have spent some time corresponding with Riley Wooten through the mail and in one very nice phone call. He sent me some pictures of his first full- fledged Stunter, an F-86D model with a Fox 35 for power. Riley, besides being an excel- lent Combat pilot and a provider of great balsa to modelers, has also competed and done well in the field of control line Stunt. The pictures are real, but Riley does not have plans to this F-86D. He has passed along recollections of this first in a series Sabre. He maintains that the airfoil is similar to a Still Stuka or a copy of the Black Tiger. All three are straight winged models and were all constructed about the same time. The wing is built like most airfoils of the time with 1⁄4-inch wide cap-strips of 1⁄16-inch balsa. Leading and trailing edges are also 1⁄16-inch sheeting. The nose moment is very short, which caused some problems even getting a three- ounce Veco type tank in the front with the Fox .35. Six and a half inches is all Riley al- lowed himself from the leading edge of the wing to the back of the spinner. He even had to restrict the venturi size in order for him to have enough fuel to fly the pattern in 1953, ’54, and ’55. The tail moment is a bit nebulous as he and I are guessing from the pictures.
The spinner is a two and a half-inch Veco, so we surmised that the flaps might be around two and a quarter to two and a half- inches while the stab center chord is around a two and a half to a two and three quarter- inch piece of wood. The total 50-inch span wing encompasses about 475 square inches of area.
His F-86D was very light at 32 ounces, and the Fox .35 was pulled through the air by a 10–5 or 10–6 Top Flite propeller. Riley put this particular model together at the end of 1953 and flew it with great gusto during
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PHOTO: TOM HAMPSHIRE
Tom Hampshire’s Kingfisher now has over 100 flights under his belt. The electric powered model is well trimmed and is going well for him. This is a great project from a very skilled builder.
the 1954 and 1955 seasons. The finish is ni- trate clear dope and Aero Gloss color. Riley relates that he won most of the contests he flew in, and they included venues in Amaril- lo, Abilene, Lubbock, Midland, Odessa, TX and Hobbs, NM. This to me is an early Clas- sic model, but Riley still does not have a set of plans for it. Most of the guys in those days built without plans or went down to the local grocery store and asked for some butcher pa- per. I did the same in my younger designing days.
Tom Hampshire Kingfisher “Hi Allen, my new electric model is based on your Buccaneer 746 design, using the wing, areas, and moments. The wing tips,
flaps and tail group, as well as the ‘green- house’ fuselage profile were redrawn so as to be semi-scale. Obviously, it is a Stunt model, not a scale effort. The motor is a Scorpion 3260-890v2, with a Castle Ice Lite 50 con- troller, Hubin timer, and Hyperion 4S1P 3300 mAh 25C battery. I have had some teething problems, but Spring is coming soon, and I can get out to the field more with this power combination….” Any of the Buccaneer 746 series has a
wing of about 650 squares and a nose mo- ment of ten inches and a tail moment of six- teen inches. The stab and elevator are nor- mally around twenty-three to twenty-five percent of the total wing and combined flap area. Good luck to Tom on his new venture.
PHOTOS: RILEY WOOTEN
Riley Wooten and his F-86D (at left) somewhere in Texas circa 1950s. This very lightweight 32-ounce Stunt model was powered by the venerable Fox .35 and is typical of Riley’s model and other modelers from Texas. Although this is a very grainy shot (above), the scanned picture is a closer view of Riley’s F-86D. This short nosed model had barely enough room for a three-ounce Veco styled metal tank.
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