ROBINHOOD 80 PLAN + Building Instructions to Build an 80” Span RC Model Airplane

Description

I AM NOT SELLING A KIT
,
only new, full-size copies of the kit
PLANS
+
building
instructions
to build a 80"
ROBINHOOD 80
model.
The model, a spoof-scale version of the
CURTISS ROBIN,
is John Maloney’s 1985 adaptation of his ROBINHOOD 99.
This 4 channel RC was drawn by Joe DeMarco. DeMarco's prints have been sold at the National Air and Space Museum gift shop in Washington, the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, the San Diego Air and Space Museum, the Wright Brothers National Memorial Museum at Kitty Hawk, N.C., and the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. His drawing of the
Fokker D. VII
, not included in this listing, shows DeMarco’s skill as an artist.
The 2 full-size plan sheet drawings consist of one for the wing construction and the other for fuselage construction. An additional sheet details front side fuselage.
A historical note about the Curtiss Robin:
In 1938 Douglas Corrigan became known as "Wrong-Way" Corrigan by flying a radial engine powered
CURTISS ROBIN
nonstop from New York to Ireland. Before his flight, the CAA (now the FAA) inspected his raggedy old plane and declared it unfit for trans-ocean flying. They gave him a one-time-only permission slip to fly back to California. But, in the dead of night, he took off and headed east eventually landing in Ireland! He claimed his compass stuck and he thought he was flying west to California when all along he was actually flying east to Europe!
He was given a ticker tape parade down Fifth Avenue---just as Charles Lindbergh had gotten in 1927, wrote an autobiography entitled "That's My Story", played himself in a Hollywood movie, bought a California orchard & became a well-to-do man. He never changed his story and he died happy and still famous for flying the "Wrong Way" in 1938!
(The Curtiss Robin also was used for the first aerial refueling and endurance flight over Hattiesburg, Mississippi.)
As a
BONUS
I include some very nice
CURTISS ROBIN
scale 3-views and other documentation sheets.
My last picture shows World Engines owner holding his
ROBINHOOD 10
. I offer the
ROBINHOOD
10 plans and its large photo building instructions separately.
YOU ARE PURCHASING CLEAN, WHITE, FULL-SIZE COPIES OF ORIGINAL
PLANS
AND A COPY OF THE
BUILDING
INSTRUCTIONS
FOR THE
ROBINHOOD 80
+
BONUS
SCALE 3-VIEW DOCUMENTATION, FOLDED IN A MANILA ENVELOPE.