History of the Ultimate Aircraft Corporation

[Bjorn Lehnardt]

The plane Prettner tried unsuccessfully to enter in the TOC was a 
biplane, a Skybolt I think.  That was mid '80's?   The Dalotel he won
with was at the 5th TOC in 1978.  I have a Feb. 1979 M.A.N. with him
on the cover along with the plane.  Huge for it's day, and still not tiny 
compared to today's TOC planes.  Here's mine which is about the 
same size, but with 60cc more than Hanno had.
http://home.att.net/~rmimac2001/cphotos/DSCN0400.jpg
The other planes that year used mostly .90 size glow motors and would 
look rather small next to a modern 2m pattern plane.  


 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin X. Moleski, SJ" <moleski at canisius.edu>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:41 PM
Subject: History of the Ultimate Aircraft Corporation


> --On Monday, November 25, 2002 10:57 PM -0500 Rcmaster199 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Lance,
> 
> > The Ultimate Bipe was designed in a collaborative effort, taking some of
> > the best features of the prototype model, to full scale. That's what i
> > recall Don Lowe talking about many years ago now.
> 
> > Matt
> 
> I haven't talked with Don Lowe, but I've had many conversations
> and exchanged lots of e-mail with Gordon Price, designer of
> the Ultimate Biplanes.
> 
> RC may have played some role in the evolution of the design,
> but it is rooted in Gordon's development of a wing, fuselage,
> gas tank, wheel fairings, and other products for the Pitts
> biplanes.  You can read the story as I understand it
> at <http://moleski.net/ULTBIPE/index.htm>.
> 
> Gordon judged at the TOC for several years back in the
> early 80s.  I haven't got that timeline nailed down yet.
> I think his last year there may have been when that
> European fellow tried to pass off a pattern plane as
> a scale model of a Dalotel--Hanno Prettner?
> 
> No RC model pre-existed the 10-100 and the 10-200.
> Gordon assigned the RC rights to a Canadian developer.
> He has some plan sets available--see the links on my RC
> page.  By the time Gordon produced the 10-300 and
> the 20-300, he had had lots of contact with RC people
> and--I think--was no longer judging at TOC.  The
> press release announcing the design for the 20-300 is
> from 1987.  Hanno Prettner's win with the Dalotel
> "model" was before 1984, I believe.
> 
> Marty #2874 (Paid in full.)



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