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Old 10-19-2021, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by tbzep
When I read your post I was thinking it could be a pic of a block II that someone modeled for an NAR or international competition. Upon seeing it, the fins aren't scale for a block II and it looks to me to be an illustration instead of a photo.


It is one of the early prototypes. Bt-50 tank tubes and whatever they could cobble together. It did exist and did fly. That photo was converted into a line illustration later, but on page 123 of the 1969 catalog, there's a liftoff photo of the model.

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