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CB Model Designs - Customer Photo Gallery

These are pictures of our models as built by our customers.
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Boomer Customer Photos:

This is a picture of Clint Brooks with his BOOMER P-30

This is a picture of Randy Ficklin's Boomer trimmed in yellow and blue.  It makes for  a very nice looking model under the Christmas tree.

Another view of Randy's Boomer  under the Christmas tree.

Skip Robb (left) and Kevin Sherman (right) with their BOOMER P-30's.

Kevin Sherman was the first Boomer customer.

Picture number 2 of Skip and Kevin with their BOOMER P-30's

 

Picture number 3 of Skip and Kevin with their BOOMER P-30's

Here is a shot of Clint Brooks holding his latest proof build BOOMER MK-II. The picture was taken at the Dog Park in Costa Mesa California a couple of weeks ago. The model has been set up with the Gizmo-Geezer front end.   Model as built per kit comes in at 37.7 grams without rubber. Stab and fin are tissue over mylar-the wing is tissue only. 

Close up of Clint's front end using the Gizmo-Geezer front end assembly.

Another close up shot of Clint's front end using the Gizmo-Geezer front end assembly

Richard Browning's BOOMER trimmed in red and white tissue.  Richard took 3rd place at his first model meet the 51st Annual San Diego Orbiteers and Fresno Gas Model Club Dual meet

Another picture of Richard Browning's BOOMER along side his nicely trimmed out YARDSTICK

Another view of Richard Browning's BOOMER and YARDSTICK

Another view of Richard Browning's BOOMER and YARDSTICK

via email from George Nunez:

A few words from this weekend's flying at the Dixie Nats in Palm Bay FL (with my BOOMER)  Windy, muggy and hot weather but we decided to go anyway.  Without rubber but ready to fly plane 34g 4 strands of 3/16 10 g motor.  A little tight but after a few stretches it freewheels OK.  Test glide looks very good  First flight 300 turns, goes straight and a few deep stalls. Did not get to glide.  I sand in some down and right ( more right than down ) give it 400 turns and  it went like gang busters, it got some nice altitude settled in a nice glide but then got some good air and it started going up real fast.  I estimate it got to more than double the altitude when the motor run ended.  I had a two minute DT and I got it back.  Almost lost it on its second flight.  People asked if it was a Sparrowhawk, heheh (not so, it's a CB Model Designs BOOMER!).....You got a terrific performer.

Cheers,
George Nunez

Another picture of George Nunez and his BOOMER

Another picture of George Nunez and his BOOMER

January 7, 2010 email from Haoyang Wang

My Boomer has finally had its maiden flight today, one year later. :-)

The building process was smooth and pleasant. The wing looked scarily complex but turned out to be straight and rigid -- all those little gussets and reinforcements must have helped keeping the warps away. During building, I kept referencing to both the rev-a and rev-b manuals, which I had downloaded from your web site. While rev-b is up to date, rev-a has some helpful pictures in it.

Covering the undercamber with tissues was frustrating. I had to constantly reassure myself that the plane would fly so high that nobody would see the wrinkles.

Indeed the Boomer flew high today. The final flight (with 1000 turns in the rubber motor) lasts about 2 minutes. Now it is a matter of trimming and trimming...

I had some previous experiences with the button timer from A2Z Corp (Peck-Polymers, Sting Aero, etc.), but could never get it work predictably, so this time, as shown in the attached picture, I use a ParkZone Vapor brick for DT. The radio seems to have a good range while the plane is in the air, but there was one time, after the plane had landed, the receiver lost signal, fail-safe kicked in, popped the DT. (Well, at least I got the assurance that fail-safe worked.) The 1-cell lipo battery lasted the whole morning 

Thank you for having designed such a great flier. Wow.

via email from Gary Acord:

I finally finished (my Boomer II). It went together very well. It's the nicest, most complete kit I've ever seen. I built it according to plan with a Gizmo-Geezer     My first trim flight last Sunday at the Grassy Knoll was 45 seconds on 300 hand wound turns. It's the best first flight ever for me! 

 It's a great design,  I couldn't be happier with it.  

Gary Acord

Rich Adams built this boomer shown in bare bones and ready to fly at the field.  Rich is a noted FAC modeler from Texas.

Steve Spence built this bright film covered BOOMER

Rich Hilliard built this BOOMER, photo taken at the dog park in Costa Mesa Rich's model flew away on it's 4th flight

This is Randy Wrisley with the second BOOMER kit sold. The picture was a cool morning at the dog park in Costa Mesa.

Chuck Powell smiles with his 4th BOOMER 

Chuck says: " I'm on my 4th boomer, the first one lasted 2 1/2 years , then lost it and built another one in 5 days for a contest in Oklahoma, trimmed it out at the contest and the first official flight lost it in a bean field. So I built another one for the Denver contest a couple weeks later , trimmed it at the contest and put a retrieval transmitter on it thinking "I ain't gonna loose this one" (NOT).  But U lost it dt,d at 3 minutes landed at 5 minutes, I thought "no biggy: I have a transmitter in it, but then I couldn't get a signal ? So now I'm on my 4rth one, the Mk 3, so far I've made it through one contest sp far"

 

 

 

The 3rd shot is Chuck launching his #4 at the Ike in February of 2014 at Lost Hills

 

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Joulebox 190 Customer Photos:

Hardly considered a customer, this is the designer of the JOULEBOX 190, John Oldenkamp himself with the prototype kit at the Perris, CA field.  Nice looking model.

John Oldenkamp with a JOULEBOX of unknown vintage at the Southwest Regionals in 2014. Note pre-production built up fuselage instead of production carbon tail boom.

Another picture of John Oldenkamp's JOULEBOX

John Oldenkamp launching his JOULEBOX at the Southwest Regionals in 2014
 

 

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Yardstick Customer Photos:

This is a picture of Randy Ficklin's Yardstick trimmed in yellow and black.  It too makes for  a very nice looking model under the Christmas tree.

Another view of Randy's Yardstick  under the Christmas tree

A nice view of Randy's model the standard kit color scheme with optional checkerboard tissue trim

Richard Browning's nicely trimmed out YARDSTICK

Another view of Richard Browning's nicely trimmed out YARDSTICK

Another view of Richard Browning's nicely trimmed out YARDSTICK

A nice gossamer shot of Richard Browning's YARDSTICK passing overhead.  Photo taken by Linda Wrisley.

This is a picture of Gene Smith's grandson Mathew who built the model with Gene.  This image appeared in the AMA magazine  about 6 months ago.  This is what modeling is all about..
 

 

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Curtis XP-40Q Customer Photos:





This olive drab P-40 was built by Mark Chomyn of the San Diego Scale Staffel

 

All silver XP-40Q built by Don Butman.

 It is covered with silver Microlite film.

Randy Ficklin's P-40 build

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