Radio Controlled Baby Ace Model Airplanes
Here is a really nice Corben Baby Ace R/C (radio controlled) model airplane. Notice the workshop... really nice and perfect for the large scale project like this Baby Ace. I wonder how it flies? Looks just like the real thing. I started out flying R/C model airplanes back in the early 1970's when proportional radio control was really coming into its own. I eventually became involved with full scale flying but never forgot my love of these wonderful R/C airplanes (they are more difficult to fly then a real airplane... I know several pilots that have not been able to fly them without training.... so do not make the assumption that you can handle one of these just because you fly a full scale Corben Baby Ace.... t'aint so.) I still have several of my R/C models to this day - but have not flown one in years.
If anyone knows the status of this airplane or who ended up with this airplane, or - if you are the Owner, Builder, Pilot or Photographer involving this airplane, please e-mail me with your story and I will try my best to publish it on these pages.
If anyone knows the status of this airplane or who ended up with this airplane, or - if you are the Owner, Builder, Pilot or Photographer involving this airplane, please e-mail me with your story and I will try my best to publish it on these pages.
A Really Nice Radio Controlled (R/C) Baby Ace Model Airplane
Quality workmanship is apparent... one can hardly distinguish it from a full scale Baby Ace until you peek into the cowling. Notice the detailing on the propeller which is for display only. Flying R/C airplanes is exhilarating to say the least. You can crash and lose one of these in a mili-second. The adrenalin rush is unbelievable when you come close to losing one. You don't get physically hurt but you get deeply hurt in your wallet; not to mention losing perhaps 400 hours building time for a model of this quality. Expect to spend at least $1,500.00 to build the model shown here, possibly more depending on engine and radio. Some of the larger four-stroke model airplane engines cost nearly $1,000 alone (see picture of one of those fancy engines below in an equally fancy model airplane). Copyright notice: If you see an image here that should not be displayed due to prior copyright issues, please feel free to contact us about it. We will take necessary action if required.
See Paolo Severin's fantastic steel tubing Corben Baby Ace airplane kits below.
See Paolo Severin's fantastic steel tubing Corben Baby Ace airplane kits below.
Steel Tube & 4-Stroke Powered
Yes... this is a model airplane.... a 1/4 scale Corben Baby Ace kit by Paolo Severin that has put a new twist on large scale radio controlled model airplane kits. See the availability below. A visit to his web site will knock your socks off! There are many photos of these kits online elsewhere that show the model in various states of completion. Once covered you can hardly tell it from the real thing. The engine is an O.S. 4-stroke twin small enough to hold in your two hands, one hand if you ar careful. It has every moving part of a full size airplane engine except for an ignition system. You even must adjust the valves (I have two of these engines that have never been run that I have owned for more than 25 years). Guy Foster [The Baby Ace Man]
Paolo Severin's Abridged Biography: I'm an italian scale rc modeller, some time ago I've founded a little company to produce my kit. Location Padova, Italy (near Venice) Interests RC Scale. Occupation Art Director in Advertising Agency and Scale RC Kit producer.
I like to think there's a club of early homebuilders, who have long since gone to that great big flyng field up in the sky. I bet they're real happy there's a whole new generation of modelers who also love to build and fly parasol-type aircraft like this Baby Ace. (From Scale RC Modeler May 1988)
www.paoloseverin.it
[/COLOR][/COLOR]Finally available the new Baby Ace kit, thanks to its simple construction is proposed at only 950 € (+ 20% VAT only for the EEC). The Baby Ace kit is of the same quality of the other Paolo Severin kits, and includes welded stainless steel tube fuselage, tail planes, functional landing gear and struts. Balsa and CNC cut plywood wings, fiberglass cowl and instrument panel, and aeronautical quality aluminum plates CNC cut. The coverage is in fabric (not included).
GREAT NOVELTY:
"Ready to weld kit"
for expert at only 500€
(+ 20% VAT only for the EEC).
Technical data:
Wing span: 2144 mm. (84,4”)
Lenght 1426 mm. (56,15”) without prop
Wing area: 79 dmq. (8,5 sq. ft.)
Weight: 5 kg. (11 lbs.) approx.
Power: 15/25 cc. (OS 160 boxer suggested for aerobatic performance)
I also sell welded model airplane kit(s) for:
Fieseler Storch 1/4 scale
Piper J3 Cub 1/4 scale
Baby Ace 1/4 scale
Bücker Jungmaister 1/3 scale (wait until you see this one!)
U.S. dealer:
www.vogelsang-aeroscale.com
http://www.vogelsang-aeroscale.com/vintage.html
Paolo Severin's Abridged Biography: I'm an italian scale rc modeller, some time ago I've founded a little company to produce my kit. Location Padova, Italy (near Venice) Interests RC Scale. Occupation Art Director in Advertising Agency and Scale RC Kit producer.
I like to think there's a club of early homebuilders, who have long since gone to that great big flyng field up in the sky. I bet they're real happy there's a whole new generation of modelers who also love to build and fly parasol-type aircraft like this Baby Ace. (From Scale RC Modeler May 1988)
www.paoloseverin.it
[/COLOR][/COLOR]Finally available the new Baby Ace kit, thanks to its simple construction is proposed at only 950 € (+ 20% VAT only for the EEC). The Baby Ace kit is of the same quality of the other Paolo Severin kits, and includes welded stainless steel tube fuselage, tail planes, functional landing gear and struts. Balsa and CNC cut plywood wings, fiberglass cowl and instrument panel, and aeronautical quality aluminum plates CNC cut. The coverage is in fabric (not included).
GREAT NOVELTY:
"Ready to weld kit"
for expert at only 500€
(+ 20% VAT only for the EEC).
Technical data:
Wing span: 2144 mm. (84,4”)
Lenght 1426 mm. (56,15”) without prop
Wing area: 79 dmq. (8,5 sq. ft.)
Weight: 5 kg. (11 lbs.) approx.
Power: 15/25 cc. (OS 160 boxer suggested for aerobatic performance)
I also sell welded model airplane kit(s) for:
Fieseler Storch 1/4 scale
Piper J3 Cub 1/4 scale
Baby Ace 1/4 scale
Bücker Jungmaister 1/3 scale (wait until you see this one!)
U.S. dealer:
www.vogelsang-aeroscale.com
http://www.vogelsang-aeroscale.com/vintage.html
SIMPLY LIKE A REAL PLANE
In order to build a beautiful scale model, there is nothing new to invent, but you only have to make the most faithful replica of the real plane. I discovered this simple truth when I built my first Fieseler Storch which had a welded steel tubing fuselage like the real one. The final result was simply astonishing!
Thanks to this type of skeletal structure which one can admire looking through the cabin glazing and can also be guessed under the skin of fabric covering, the model looks extremely realistic. You are not in front of the same old big scale model, but of a real, true-to-scale aircraft. These aircrafts (I apologize, but I really can’t call them simply “models”) are not only a pleasure to the eye, but their flight characteristics are incredibly similar to those of the real ones. I obtained these results thanks to the large scales adopted and through a rigorous and respectful work on the original plans and airfoils. But there is more: unlike what one could imagine, these stainless steel structures are not only extremely strong, but also very light, much lighter than their traditional balsa/ply counterparts. Let’s see an example: a traditional quarter scale replica of a Fieseler Storch weighs around 17 kgs, but my Storch weighs only 11,5 kgs and in comparison is much, much stronger.
In my kits nothing is left to chance and every modeler can finish the work making his own unique masterpiece, a wonderful replica which can withstand a lot of abuse and even the hardest landings. Anyway, small repairs and servicing are simple and straightforward. The operational life of these small aircrafts is bound to be similar to that of their beautifully preserved full-size brothers who are still flying today after so many years and are still giving wonderful emotions and great satisfactions to their owners.
Paolo Severin
I'm sorry for my bad English, any help is appreciated. [email protected]
In order to build a beautiful scale model, there is nothing new to invent, but you only have to make the most faithful replica of the real plane. I discovered this simple truth when I built my first Fieseler Storch which had a welded steel tubing fuselage like the real one. The final result was simply astonishing!
Thanks to this type of skeletal structure which one can admire looking through the cabin glazing and can also be guessed under the skin of fabric covering, the model looks extremely realistic. You are not in front of the same old big scale model, but of a real, true-to-scale aircraft. These aircrafts (I apologize, but I really can’t call them simply “models”) are not only a pleasure to the eye, but their flight characteristics are incredibly similar to those of the real ones. I obtained these results thanks to the large scales adopted and through a rigorous and respectful work on the original plans and airfoils. But there is more: unlike what one could imagine, these stainless steel structures are not only extremely strong, but also very light, much lighter than their traditional balsa/ply counterparts. Let’s see an example: a traditional quarter scale replica of a Fieseler Storch weighs around 17 kgs, but my Storch weighs only 11,5 kgs and in comparison is much, much stronger.
In my kits nothing is left to chance and every modeler can finish the work making his own unique masterpiece, a wonderful replica which can withstand a lot of abuse and even the hardest landings. Anyway, small repairs and servicing are simple and straightforward. The operational life of these small aircrafts is bound to be similar to that of their beautifully preserved full-size brothers who are still flying today after so many years and are still giving wonderful emotions and great satisfactions to their owners.
Paolo Severin
I'm sorry for my bad English, any help is appreciated. [email protected]