The Russell Chambers 1938 R-1 Chambermaid is a laser cut balsa wood kit for the serious flying competitor. This kit is a modified Bill Henn competition design Greve Racer.
With retractable landing gear, a wingspan of 13'10" and a fuselage length of 17'4" the Chambermaid was one of the smallest racers ever built. Russell Chambers built this "tiny screamer" in his garage. When Art Chester saw the plane he commented, "Ya forgot the wings, Russ." Sadly on September 12, 1938 at the National Air Races in Cleveland, Chambers died when he crashed his plane into a vegetable patch.
This free flight rubber powered kit includes a full-size rolled CAD drawn plan, laser cut balsa parts hand-picked balsa strip wood, vacuum-molded canopy, exhaust cylinders, spinner, and wheels in up position, FAI rubber motor, E-B propeller, EBM thrust bearing, LaserCal™ markings, and Easy Built Lite tissue in white. To build this model you will need a building board, hobby knife, fine sandpaper, and glue.
CUSTOMER BUILDS & INFO
"This is Chambermaid #2. The first one has logged over 130 flights, most of which were successful. I would estimate that 45‰ of it has been rebuilt, patched,and recovered. It now weighs 14 grams more. It still flies as good as ever despite 4 death spirals, 3 accidental wound rubber releases, 6 tree recoveries and one full power tree strike that severed a wing." - Bob Bard
2 min 49 second flight at the Middle Wallop event in Hampshire, England in August 2011
| Attribute name | Attribute value |
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| Wingspan | 22"- 22.5" |
| Classification | Civil Aircraft, FAC Scale Aircraft, Racing Aircraft |
