CLOUD KITTEN

The Cloud Kitten is a nice looking, easy building, .15 powered aircraft with a 48 inch wing span. Designed by Fred Reese, and originally featured in  RCM Magazine in 1999, Fred is no novice to model aircraft design. For those who are not familiar with Fred Reese or his designs, perhaps listing a few may ring a bell. Going back to 1972 Fred designed the Quickie and El Bandito in 1973.  Adding to his list of designs, lets include a few size variations of the Cloud Dancer and the Simple Series kitted by Ace RC.  Aircraft in the Simple series were the Staggerwing, ME 109, Extra, and T-6 Texan, and a few others. Fred also had some of his deigns kitted by House of Balsa. I’ve discovered 46 designs by Fred and this is the second one I’ve built. From 1/2 A all the way up to 1.20, Fred has it covered. Electric, glow, scale, civil, racers, biplanes, float planes, and gliders round out his resume. He certainly has my voter for the R/C Hall of Fame! About The Build Not much to say here other than excluding the wing ribs, there’s only about 10 parts to cut out. The plans show 3 Hitec HS-80 servos for control which are no longer available. I substituted 3 HS-81’s which will work fine. Full size servos will work but will be a tighter fit. Model was covered with Ultracote pearl white, yellow, and true red for trim. A Great Planes L1 .19 size gear was used. Give this one a try, I guarantee you won’t see one at your local field!

Front View

Wheel pants will need to be finished up, otherwise it’s almost ready to go.

Angle View

Clean, simple lines make the Kitten an attractive bird.

.15 Engine

Well tested Enya .15 used for power.

Kitten should fly fine on smaller

engines such as a .09 or .10. Larger

engines than a .15 are not

recommended. The wing is not

stressed for Whack-O G loads.

Top View

Ultracote design on the Kitten was

inspired from the Monokote design

poster. Identical design, I just used

different colors.

Decals

Font was downloaded from web at Dafont.com. I used EXPERTS- CHOICE™ DECAL FILM SHEETS for the decals and sprayed with Krylon Cover MAXX acrylic gloss clear.

Fuselage View

Shot of Cloud Kitten graphics on fuselage.