Piece O' Cake

Eric holds my dad's Piece O' Cake airplane in 1993

 

My dad bought this from John Rivers. He and his son built it, but never flew it. It originally had a Cox Black Widow .049 on it, but it needed more power so he replaced it with the exhaust throttled Cox TD .09 shown in the picture. This was the first plane Eric flew. Within a couple of years Steven had a couple of flights on it too. But it was completely destroyed when he put it into a steep dive and he quickly pulled it out. The wing folded and it came down hard. The wing failure was due to an insufficient leading edge repair after a previous crash.

 

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