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Kit-Bashed Joss Stik

Randall Huston (Box 33, Skidmore MO 64487; E-mail: randall1959@yahoo.com) kit bashed an old Joss Stick by cutting four inches off the nose and installing a Maloney 1.25 gas engine. He also removed the dihedral from the wing, made a cowling from an old canister and installed it, and fashioned a machine gun from scrap wood.

Randall added Charles the pilot (a Hobby Lobby product) and a few decals and some trim so that the finished product would resemble a Fokker Eindecker. The Maloney 1.25 powers an APC 14 x 6 propeller and pulls the model well. Randall wrote, “It flies straight and stable and will do most aerobatic maneuvers. It behaves well upon landing.”