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With the permission of Gordon Banks, Owner and Editor-in-Chief of R/C Report Magazine, here are scans of the original DPS article that appeared in the April 2003 issue, as well as the "Spad Report" columns, which had a year long run from August 2003 through July 2004. A big THANK YOU to R/C Report for it's support of Spad, and for allowing us to reproduce that work here for all to enjoy.
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Cover Picture
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Month
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Description
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April 2003 | DasPlaStick construction article and flight report. |
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August 2003 | Introduction, SPAD History. |
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September 2003 | SPAD Originals, SPAD #1, SPADFEST 2003. |
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October 2003 | Cutting, Shipping, Scoring/Folding, Hinging, Gluing coroplast. Working with PVC gutter pipe. |
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November 2003 | Engine, Radio installation. Getting ready for first flight. SPAD Jet by Andrew Coholic. |
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December 2003 | SPAD Slope Soaring. |
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January 2004 | Aternative materials for fuselage, wings, tail feathers and spars. Typical yardstick measurements. |
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February 2004 | Landing gear. Kitchen cutting board engine mounts. |
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March 2004 | Speedy SPADS: Sickle, Ddust. Square coroplast fuselage. Chris Jumper |
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April 2004 | Club Combat. The GNAT. SPAD Bad? |
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May 2004 | The Ultra SpadStick. Large SPADs. |
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June 2004 | Electric SPADs. |
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July 2004 | The ESPA3D. Scale SPADs. The CoroCub. SPAD in the classroom. The SPAD Power Pack. |
These Spads are perfect for training, with flight characteristics equal to those of ARF trainers.
Beginners, please enlist the help of a qualified instructor to help you build and learn to fly your Spad!
Spad's first incarnations, which have one thing in common: Simple square gutterpipe fuselages with or
without landing gear. Some of our most popular designs are found here!
Simple and durable, the alumnium rail fuselage is a great choice when PVC gutterpipe is hard to find, or even when it's not!
Here you will encounter fun-scale Spad warbirds guaranteed to turn heads at your field.
The building requirements are more advanced, but well worth the effort.
The .40 size SpadStick, and the 1/4 scale UltraSpadStick, are masterpieces of Spad design
and performance for you sport flying fans who crave a good looking model.
With the introduction of the Qhor, and eventually the Spa3D and it's variants, Spad took the 3D world by storm.
Finally, some of the more popular non-original Spads, now offered here for your convenience.
A few plans/diagrams of quick simple solutions to common Spad tasks. Some great tips are here.
