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The aviation products of the Granville Brothers are legend,although they only produced thirty aircraft during their unique career the machines have gone down in history as the ones that won air races during the golden years of flying in the 1930's one Gee Bee broke the speed record for landplanes which was amazing due to the small team of engineers involved with an ailing company which only lasted five years.
The model depicts the Super Sportster called the R1 which was tailored to suit a particular air race and fitted with a 550 hp Wasp Junior engine averaging a top speed of 260 mph,the next year a bigger 900hp Hornet engine .The design was a very tricky beast to handle and great care had to be exercised on landing and take off and the aircraft were damaged many times only to be rebuilt again and again.
In 1991 the Experimental Aircraft Association held a convention at Oshkosh which featured a Golden Age of Air Racing theme,many of the pre war survivors in the form of replicas produced in the 1990's appeared to represent the full range of aircraft produced,one of these replicas is owned by Disneyland for films.

BUILDING THE MODEL-This follows basically on the lines of past models and I suggest that reference is made to these for additional card model building instructions,print out the file using Bristol board obtainable from art shops as your card,this gives a wonderful finish,is easy to work with and above all very light to ensure good flying performance,glue the fuselage onto balsa sheet or thin foam and cut the slots for the wing and tailplane,the wing can be curved slightly by rolling with a rolling pin or similar dowel over some soft material such as sorbo rubber or similar,some washout in the wingtips at the trailing edge is recommended to prevent any tip stalling on this model ,simply bend this in holding the wing between warm fingers.If required rigging wires can be made from fuse wire or thin cotton,the positions of these are not shown but reference to any Gee Bee web site will help here.
Balance positions are now to be shown on all future models,note the segmented circle which denotes this,simply hang cotton from a pin at this point and add some plastercine or similar product to nose,launch with the nose pointing slightly down and aim to get a flat glide across the room.