G Line Baby Shark with O&R 23 sparker. We have come a long way

rsv1cox Sat Jul 17, 2021 11:58 pm

But I do love the lines of this thing.

Second half of Mark's flea market buy. $15 it's a keeper. Historically significant. Mahogany spars, block balsa, pretty basic. But pole flying?

Had to picture instructions in sections, scanned it, file too large to single post here.

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Ken Cook Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:34 am

I'm a big O&R fan. I have a small collection and I enjoy them. Gutless as can be but they start and run steady. I keep wanting to build a fairly sizeable free flight plane for one. All of mine are totally complete with original needle valves and timers etc. Usually, you find them molested with missing prop washers.

rsv1cox Sun Jul 18, 2021 3:37 pm

I have the glow plug version of the .29 Ken, I have a sparker .23 around someplace but I can't find it. Seems I read where O&R was the first model engine manufacturer to cast the displacement size into their engines. Darn, just thought, I have an O&R .049 with the shield too, can't find it either. One of my favorites, maybe in the display case down stairs.

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A little nasty, I should run it and then clean it up.

It must have been fun way back flying that Baby Shark with a 35' to 50' single line attached to the end of a fishing pole.

Instructions say to add rudder deflection and experiment with the elevator until it fly's off the ground. I would have liked to have been there. Many crashes I would think. Sad for such a beautiful design. If I were back in my passion days for this stuff, I would have built one in standard control line.

BTW, got a kick out of the spelling a grammar errors in the instructions. Likely typed on an old Smith-Corona with no spell/grammar check. I would have been lost. Smile

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