Hi Paul I'm using this slow correspondence time to ask your opinion.

I'm deciding which plane and engine to pick.  So I could start building

from plan.  (less expensive).  Well now I know for sure a want a rotary

engine (which one? like 13turbo w/o the turbo so I could have ram air

induction,  renesis on a Mustang II?  will it fit?).  From the start,

my mine was made up for a rotary.  Don t ask me why but rotary just make

so much sense.  Rotary engine goes in an airplane like daddy goes with

mummy :)))

Now where I'm hesitating is the Mustang II.  A fellow at work is

building one from plans (great).  Where I'm concerned is that it seems

so much popular with the RV.  Also there is so much been made for them

and so little for the Mustang II  why not the Mustang?  I don't want to

find my self lost in the garage walking around in circle cursing at me

regretting making the wrong choice.  Because everything has already been

created for the plane (RV) but I have to re-invent the wheel for the

mustang.  I'm limited in human resources I'm a train conductor not an

engineer.  The Mustang has so much (for me) room for improvement
reducing

drag and all that jazz it seem the sky is the limit in improving it (Am

I wrong or the RV would be just as fun to build from plans possible?).

I just had to get it of my chest.

Just about everywhere I look they talk about a RV 4, 6, etc etc...  not

much help from RWS Tracy he is a RV guy.   At RWS they have only one

customer with email address doing Mustang II and rotary.  Did not find

much much more than this one guy.

Where is the beef???

Marc Montreal Canada

I'll let people answer that have built both.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.


In spite of its many attractive features, the Mustang II has not been as
popular with the homebuilding crowd as the RVs or some other recent
additions to the kit plane market. I think it is because Mr. Robert
Bushby (the originator of the Mustang II) was principally a one-man show
and never tried to mass-market the kit; however, there has been a change
in emphasis. Declining health forced Mr. Bushby to sell the production
rights for the Midget Mustang and Mustang II kits in 1992 to a company
called Mustang Aeronautics, under the management of a very energetic
Chris Tieman. He has made several enhancements in the kit, making it
easier and faster to build.   You can see them at the Mustang
Aeronautics web site
_http://www.mustangaero.com/Mustang%20II/MustangII.html_

I would_ not_ recommend that you build from plans.  Go with the
quick-build kit, unless you want to spend the rest of your life building
instead of flying.  Everything that you can get pre-made and still stay
within the 51% rule is well worth the money in my estimation.

I think that the Mustang II and the 13B rotary are a nice fit.  My
experience in flying one with a Lycoming O-320 is that it has excellent
short field characteristics.  It flew nicely in and out of a 2,100 foot
grass strip.

Bob J. Rogers

I am probably the Mustang II / R13b builder referred to by Tracy.   I've
been building from plans since 1993, and I second everything Mr. Rogers
says.  I started out delighted by how much money I was saving over the
kit cost.  But now, after graduating from college, moving twice, getting
married, and having a child, I still haven't finished the project (99%
though), and have bought a factory four-seat to haul the growing family
around.

Anything that you can buy pre-made is one less thing to worry about--
and the 13b is a very tight vertical fit under the cowl.  Don't
underestimate the job of building from plans.

Steve Rosine


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