Little Legends

I didn’t want to clutter up the Balsa Hyper Viper thread, so I’ll do one on the Little Legends here.  For those who don’t know about the Little Legends (not to be confused with the L’il Legends CL models by Dick Sarpolous), they are 1/2A profile versions of five full size winning pattern planes.  They are the Nobler, Genesis, USA-1, Stiletto, and Impact.  The plans were drawn down by Steve Buso.  They might fly on a good TD .049, but would be better served with a Norvel or better.  The plans are $20.00 plus postage and are sold by Walt Umland on his website:
http://builtrightflyright.com/2019/Ribsets/LittleLegends.htm


The plans come folded in a standard mailing envelope, although you might be able to get them shipped rolled.  I don’t know.  They are a very large plan set when unfolded.




As you can see, all five fuselages are shown on the left, and the wings on the right.  The wings are basically the same, with the different tip shapes  shown on the wing plans.  A built up wing and a foam wing are shown.  There was talk of Walt Umland producing kits or rib sets, but I think health issues deferred those plans.  If I can figure out how to scan the drawings and convert them to .dfx files, I’ll assemble the cheap laser cutter kit I got last year and cut five sets of ribs for the planes.  I did see that John Duncan apparently has templates for foam wings for the Little Legends, so he might be able to cut cores:
https://stunthanger.com/smf/jd's-foam-wings/more-templates-in-stock/msg269417/#msg269417


I could only find two pictures of built and flying Little legends.  A  LL Nobler:



And a LL Genesis:




As you can see, the plans are fully authorized by the original designers.




I wish now that I'd ordered two sets of plans, one for reference, and one to cut up.  I cannot wait until I have the time to do the cutting for these and start building.  But I have so many projects going now, it’ll be a while.

The Legend In His Own Mind Mark