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The Vintage Pattern Corner

Curare
Contest November 1 & 2, 2008
All day
Contact: Bob Cox, CD
              305-218-2254
              Mike Cipolato, Co-CD
              305-274-3835

The Silver Palm Classic                                   DATES CHANGED
A VINTAGE PATTERN CLASSIC
Venue: Silver Field

Event Flyer                                      

Documents of interest to SPA competitors

2008 SPA Competitors Guide SPA Maneuver call cards

2008 Maneuvers Descriptions

Links of interest to SPA competitors

Senior Pattern Association website
This is the link for the SPA. They are a Special Interest Group (SIG) under the AMA. There is a lot of information on this site. The best thing to do is just spend some time checking out the menu links. This is the organization that uses cut off dates of Jan. 1, 1975 for legal airplanes.

Ballistic Pattern Association
This is the BPA. They are not currently a Special Interest Group (SIG) under the AMA. This is the group that uses the cut off date of Jan. 1, 1996 as their cut off date for legal planes. There is not much information here, but you might want to check it out.
Aztec Airplane Factory
This company has the Phoenix 8 available. They make the kits on a by order basis so it might take a while to get one. The Phoenix 8 is a legal SPA plane.
Trenton RC Flyers
This is a website that has pictures of many of the vintage pattern planes. I thought you would enjoy looking through his pictures.
Eureka Aircraft
This company has five airplane kits available that are SPA legal. Most are short kits, but a couple are available as full kits.
Home And Hobby Solutions
This company has three full kits available that are SPA and antique pattern legal.
Lazer-Works
This company sells laser cut kits from plans. They will cut any plans you send them and have many already on their list. They have the Phoenix 5 (which I sent them) and Super Kaos as well as many more.
Model Airplane News Magazine
Model Airplane News still has many of the vintage pattern planes plans available. Check out their RC Store and click on the plans link and then the pattern category.
Bridi Airplanes
This is Blue Jay models who bought the rights to the Bridi designs that hadn't been sold to other company's.
PassTime Hobbies
This company has short kits of the Curare and the MK Atlas.
Performance Model Aviation
This company has short kits of the Deception and the Peppermint Pattie. They are working on a couple more planes that they haven't listed yet. Click on the SPA Planes button in the left hand menu.
Pyramid Hobbies
Pyramid offers ARC versions of the Astro Hog, Curare and the Compensator.
ZIMPRO
Although it's not listed on their web site. Zimpro offers either a kit, ARC or ARF version of the Daddy Rabbit. You will have to call them to get information.
RCM Magazine Plans
Even though RC modeler magazine is no longer in production, their plans service was purchased by an individual who still offers all their plans. I purchased the Dirty Birdy and Super Kaos plans from him.
Early RC Models
This is actually a sub company of Wing Manufacturing. They offer antique legal planes as well as the Phoenix 5. These are complete kits.
my Uncle Willies Plans Service
This guy offers hundreds of plans, but the only one that is a pattern plane is the Taurus. His plans are cheap but he sends them to you as a digital file and you have to have them printed out.
Southern Reprographics
This is Southern Reprographics. This is the plans printing service company I use to print or copy plans. They are located right here in Kendall.