Waco M-F kit?

[steve pollina]

I am building one of those Taperwing "kits". I bought mine from the original owner, Ernie Body. Due to health resons he sold it to Roy Redman in MN. Roy started out offering kits but soon just starting making completed planes. A few guys just put data plates on the kits and passed them off as certified aircraft. The plane is built almost identical to the original WACO except for the trim system and motor mount. You can still get most of the factory drawings from the Smithsonian or on CDs. Look on Ebay for the CDs. The wings are the most challeging. I think WACO went out of their way to make them as complicated as they could. All most nothing is 90 deg. Even the spars slant at angles to the verticle. They also have a complicated pin and cam locking system to join the top wings to the center section which is built in 3 bays. This is NOT a KISS plane by any means.