Category: Kwik-Fli, Slow Build

  24 March 2011. The front bottom has been glued, as well as the plywood reinforcements in the fuse around the wing rubber band pegs. I know that in that area the fuse sides are doubled, but I prefer to be safe than sorry… Here also it’s time to glue […]

21 March 2011. I glued the firewall, and now I can glue the bottom piece (3/32 plywood) and start gluing the block in the nose. At the same time, while the epoxy was setting, I cut first and then glued together, the 1/8 balsa cross grain pieces that will constitute […]

16 March 2011. Following the Mk. III concepts, I prepared the fuse sides according to the Mk. II drawing, the tri-stock and the additional longerons, and I started the assembly of the fuse. I’ve to admit that, once you become familiar with the sequence, everything is very easy and the […]

9 March 2011. I started, I started, I started!!! Well, nothing major, but I started both the Mk. III and the Mk. II horizontal stabilizer. The Mk. III is one step ahead, as I was able to glue the frame on one side of the 1/16” covering. The Mk. II […]

26 February 2011. I opened the Wing Kit (Jensen) and I found a lot of material. I’m quite sure that the wing, even if the overall dimensions are the same as the Mk. III version, is built following differently from the Top Flite one. Included in the kit there is […]

Giuseppe “Beppe” Fascione’s first entry for the Kwik-Fli Mk. II reproduction was in late February 2011, but it wasn’t until March 13, 2011 that he started an overall information page for the project. He updated this page as the project progressed and finished. To avoid date confusion, this is the […]

The build log that Giuseppe “Beppe” Fascione donated to the museum along with his Kwik-Fli Mk. II reproduction is the first, completed build log in the museum collection. We have a few time/build logs, but none of them document a finished model, or the work log itself was left uncompleted. […]

Phil Kraft designed the Kwik-Fli prototype in 1963. His stated reason was “combining high performance with the fastest possible construction time.” Fastest construction time was right – the first Kwik-Flies had no nod to appearance whatsoever, and Phil comments that when he showed up with it at the flying field […]

Meet Beppe! Giuseppe “Beppe” Fascione is a life-long modeler and a retired engineer. In 2011, Beppe challenged himself to build reproductions of four of Phil Kraft model airplanes: Das Ugly Stik, the Kwik-Fli Mk. II, the Kwik-Fli Mk. III, and the Flea Fli. To track each project, Beppe kept a […]