Walt Mooney cook-up

[g_kandylakis]

Well, not a new one, but I thought it would be fun if we could repost the results of the great idea Pete Fardell had during the Covid times back in 2019-20.

A lot of models designed by the late Walt Mooney were built, how about each one of us posting what we built?

Starting with mine, the Weick W-1A
Reduced to Peanut size, Brown A-23 powered

[Squirrelnet]

Great idea George and great model of the Weick. Here's mine a Graham White GWE6 Bantam for CO2 Telco Power. 16" span I think ...?

EDIT - Actually I can see it says 15" on the drawing so enlarged from the peanut plan

[TheLurker]

Ermm, you sure everyone's not going to be bored by even more Chiribiri No. 5 snaps?  There is film of one, stally, flight, but I can't get into Vimeo any more to recover the link.

You won't be surprised to hear that the 1/18th version I'm currently working on will be the same scheme.

[THB]

The Mooney Cook-up was heaps fun - took me a while to find my pics but here goes... VIRI

[THB]

Mooney A-1

[THB]

Beecraft HoneyBee

[malc]

Avro Racing Baby

[cvasec]

Here is my Thulin Type K

[atesus]

Gorgeous models! All those pictures reminded me the level of craftsmanship on HPA!

Here's my Erla 5A, which lingered around the workshop for about 5 years and was finished just last month. I see in the close-ups that it needs a bit more wood filler here and there .

[KevinM]

Here are three that I built during that excellent cook-up:

[Prosper]

Happy New Year everyone!

Heck, I didn't remember that there were so many exquisite little 'planes made during that Cookup - lovely pics!

This is my Bücker ,,Jungmannʺ  B.131 A. It's still airworthy despite being a bit tatty from landing in trees and general handling. I didn't upload this video

https://youtu.be/PtaXCCDFT-E

during the Cookup I think - these are fairly early trim flights. When optimally trimmed it flew 75 sec consistently. I think sometimes of putting a geared prop on it - maybe one day . . .

Stephen.

[Pete Fardell]

How lovely to see these again. Thanks, George, for instigating this retrospective!
I do have photos of all the finished models on my PC still, so can add any that don't appear in due course.
Here are mine though...
DHC Beaver (enlarged a lot from the Mooney plan to about 37" I think)
This model is no more, but had some goods flights in its day. I even won the Selby Trophy with it one year.
Here it is about 5 years ago, at Buckminster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7tpzFNk_hU
and on a much sunnier day at Lodge Farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBJC4kwMOvU

[Pete Fardell]

And here's my my Demoiselle, enlarged from the Mooney Peanut plan to 16". Powered by a GM24 and piloted by Miss Truly Scrumptious I never really got much duration or consistency but I still have her so might give her another go some day.
Here she is flying at my field in March 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZ8QxHWsAs

Though the Demoiselle wasn't a great flyer, Miss Scrumptious did rather well for me in competition: I got my name on the Eric Coates trophy with this model in 2020 (where it effectively represented the whole Walt Mooney Cook-up idea), and it also rather illegally snaffled a coveted Gerard Brinks-made third place trophy at the 2022 Nijmegen IIFI. (It didn't make the qualifying time but there were only three CO2 entrants that year so they kindly let me have it anyway!)

[MKelly]

This is the Keleher Lark I built for the Mooney cookup.  It came out a bit heavy but has made some satisfying flights.  Here are a couple from the 2022 Flying Aces Club Nationals - my son Alex was helping me pick lift.  He did well...

Mike