The Planes

Over the years Dale has built and flown many different planes. Here is a collection of just some of them.

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1963: This is a built up "Spook" Dale designed while working for the LM Cox Manufacturing Company. All the parts are molded of Styrene plastic with construction similar to a balsa wood wing. The Spook has a twenty-four inch wingspan and is powered with a Cox "290" .049 engine. Flies on a forty-two foot of .008 braided steel lines.

Below is an ad for the Spook.

1963: Lil Proto - 1/2A Proto Speed plane. Designed, built, and flown from 1963 to 1967. An article was published on this plane in the American Modeler, Sept/Oct 1964. The plane was powered with a Cox Tee Dee .049 engine. It had a twenty inch wingspan, and had a speed range of eighty to ninety mph.

1996: Tiger Shark - World's first engine powered control line model airplane kit (1939). Designed by victor Stanzel and used his patented "G-Line" control system. The plane featured adjustable rudder and elevators (set before each flight). It had a thirty-six inch wingspan and this model was powered with an OK .60 cubic inch disp. ignition engine. The plane is now in the Stanzel Model Aircraft museum in Schulenburg Texas.

1998: Stanzel "Shark G-5" two-line engine powered plane. It had the Stanzel's patented "Control-It" and "Thum-It" control system. This was the third two-line control system manufactured by Stanzel. Dale completely restored this plane in 1998. It is now in the Stanzel Model Aircraft museum.

2000: Jamison Special - A control line stunt plane that Dale built. Installed in the plane is a Stanzel "ABC Stunt-Master" mono-line control system and it was flown on a seventy foot by 0.028 diameter music wire control line. The engine is a Fox .35 and has a fifty inch wingspan.

Dale and Joe (son) holding the mono-line equipped Jamison Special. Joe flew this plane at the Vintage Stunt Contest in Tucson, Arizona.

2002: Stinger - Dale originally designed this V-Tail control line stunt plane in 1952. The original no longer exists, so Dale made a new one by referring to the kit that F-B Models of Denver, Colorado made in 1953. Dale also had good pictures of the plane for reference. This plane is powered with a Fox .35 and has a wingspan of forty-eight inches. This plan is now available in kit form by Brodak Manufactory.