Classic Bipe Specifications: 32 inch wingspan / 26inch length / 300.5inch wingarea / 42ounce weight / 21ounce wingloading / semisymmetrical airfoil.

Controls: ailerons, elevator, rudder and motor speed.

Equipment: Hitec HS-20 servos on rudder, elevator and aileron. A Hitec 555 receiver and AstroFlight Cobalt 05 motor and speed controller. Seven 1200ma SubC nicads. Flight times are 4 minutes.

Construction materials: Balsa, spruce, 1/16 plywood and covered with Monocote.

Comments: This was an early electric design and flew by shear brute force of the Cobalt 05 motor. I was using the first speed controller Astroflight made. Performance was great but flight times were a little short. After a crash and bending the shaft on my 05 I converted the Classic Bipe to a .15 gas engine. Performance was outstanding. This plane would flat spin like none I had seen before, flat like a plate. After building the suzy and its steller performance I will rebuild the Classic Bipe again and apply what I have learned. Also, with the newer batteries now available flight times will be extended greatly.

A really nice thing about the size of this plane is that you can rig it up and leave it in one piece. And when you go flying just grab it by the top wing and away you go ready to fly.

Sad to day the Classic Bipe was stolen from our home by a Christmas thief. That was years ago but if you have seen this plane in bright red with yellow sunbursts and a gas .15 engine. It’s mine.