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Culver Cadet Section => Culver General Discussion => : Moggy1 August 28, 2016, 05:27:39 PM
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Hi folks
Thanks for letting me join the group. I must admit to not knowing much about the Cadet, but from what I've read it seems like a fun ship to fly!
A long time back, I read somewhere that someone had used a Cadet as a basis for building a 3/4 scale Spitfire. It was nicknamed "Li'l Spit", but that's all I can remember of it. I never found any photos or any other references for it online. Does anyone know any more?
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I haven't heard of the "Lil Spit", but I was once reported to my local FBO: "A low flying Spitfire just buzzed my house". This happened one day when I was flying my Cadet (LCA #215) over a very sparsely-populated area near some lakes in Skagit county, WA, back in '87.
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And was it painted in camouflage with RAF colours?? :D
I was browsing through some of my old homebuilt warbird files a while back, and I found a Spit replica whose wing has certain similarities with the Cadet, namely the ailerons, slots and the undercarriage. It started making me think this was the one I had read about, but it wasn't based in the US, whereas "Li'l Spit" was.