Ever Heard of a Swoose?

[Bernie & Jude Olson]

We have a club float fly coming up in June so figured it would be fun to put something together for the event.  A build article was published in MAN in ’89 by Nick Ziroli for this plane and I just thought it was one of the neatest looking float planes ever.  It was originally designed in ’46 for free flight ROW then Nick scaled it up for RC.  It’s about the size of our SPA pattern planes and this one sports an inverted OS .55 in the nose.

 

A friend suggested that the name may have come from a forties song about Alexander the Swoose.  Half swan, half goose – Swoose.  If you like the music from that era here’s a link to the song  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8gVgOV-G6Y

 

 

 

Bernie

[Charles Johns]

Cool Bernie and real nice work.

CJ

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[chue...@comcast.net]

Yes, I have heard of the Swoose.  I saw the original article, and was very ready to built it, but...

...work and pattern got in the way.  Also, KCRC was not having float fly's in those days.  Good luck with it.  Where and when is your float fly?

Phil Spelt, KCRC Emeritus
AMA 1294, Scientific Leader Member
SPA L-18, Board Member
(865) 435-1476v  (865) 604-0541c

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[Giuseppe Fascione]

Bernie, it is a gorgeous aircraft!!!

Beppe

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[Bernie & Jude Olson]

Float Fly is on June 4 in Weatherford TX.

[bd5wingnut]

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From: Bernie & Jude Olson <olso...@att.net>
Date: 05/03/2016 10:30 (GMT-06:00)
To: SPAme...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [SPA] Ever Heard of a Swoose?

We have a club float fly coming up in June so figured it would be fun to put something together for the event.  A build article was published in MAN in ’89 by Nick Ziroli for this plane and I just thought it was one of the neatest looking float planes ever.  It was originally designed in ’46 for free flight ROW then Nick scaled it up for RC.  It’s about the size of our SPA pattern planes and this one sports an inverted OS .55 in the nose.

 

A friend suggested that the name may have come from a forties song about Alexander the Swoose.  Half swan, half goose – Swoose.  If you like the music from that era here’s a link to the song  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8gVgOV-G6Y

 

 

 

Bernie 

There also appears to be a Vultee XP-54  "Swoose Goose" aircraft.

[bd5wingnut]

OBTW

After a fairly lengthy search, for Ziroli plans, but no luck...  Do you have a source for plans?

Peace, Wolf