Dragon Rapide


	Christchurch and District Model Flying Club


	trevor’s dragon rapide


	You can read all about the Rapide on Trevor’s website http://homepage.mac.com/trevorhewson/home/modelflying/scale/electricscale.html but for a taster, here she is just before the maiden flight.




	And taking off, and in the air. The model is built from an Ivan Pettigrew plan http://www.geocities.com/ivansplans/ and the next one to come from the prolific Canadian is the 4-engined brother to the Dragon the DH 89 Express, seen below. The fuselage construction is pretty well identical, but the wings look a lot simpler


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