I've spent the last five months completely reorganizing the business so I can stay focused on my core strengths: designing and engineering new, and supporting existing products in the market.

To that end, we now have new manufacturing, sales and marketing partners to help with the huge task of keeping track of orders, answering customer inquiries, and taking time to beta build and develop new ideas.

Since the beginning of 2009, I've completed plans for a third scale SGU 1-19 which can also be built as the long-wing 1-20 version, a brand new quarter scale 2-33A plans and partial kit, the SGS 1-23 Standard through H kit has been reworked for quarter scale and we have plans for several more releases before the year is out!

Remarkable things have happened at the turn of the New Year in 2009 with introduction to the curator for sailplanes at the National Air and Space Museum - Russ Lee. I was asked by Chuck Coyne to write an article for SOARING, the journal of the Soaring Society of America and that is now out in the April issue. And best of all, I've met Mike Smock, owner marketing consulting firm Vsente who has partnered with me to bring our marketing and sales to the level these quality kits deserve.

Alex at AK Models is now our primary laser cutter and has been gearing up to drop ship and satisfy wholesale orders of the entire line of TMRC designs.

I am excited about the many new designs around the corner and invite you to come back and visit often. For the most up-to-date information on what's new on the desktop and on the bench, visit my blog Tom Martin's Flightline.

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I've always admired the beautiful designs of the 40's and 50's from the likes of Frank Zaic, Earl Stahl and others. The grace and style of many of the vintage SAM qualified gliders that my dad flew with his brothers and his dad capture the imagination.

We have already CAD parts for several and will continue to add to this part of our product line as subjects catch our eye or cannot be found elsewhere.

One that I just picked up is a little scale Schweizer SGS 2-22 two seat trainer with 32" span and we may just have to offer a kit of Earl Stahl's 32" span interpretation of the Schweizer TG-2 from the 40's as well.

Orders Aerosente Telephone: 415 234-6757 or bolt55@aerosente.com Technical Support and Questions TMRC Telephone: 816 331-8807 or tom@tmrcsailplanes.com

We currently offer more than 40 distinct high quality vintage and classic model sailplane kits in laser cut partial kit format. We also offer scale instrument panel kits, decal sets, replacement canopies, hardware packages, documentation packs and high quality original three view drawings for just about every make and model we offer. Please follow the links above for more information on all of our fine products - and thanks for visiting.

What's New? I've been working on three views for the Baker McMillen Cadet, the Franklin PS-1 Texaco Eaglet and PS-2 Primary/Secondary Glider. In addition, I've completed three views for the Lawrence Tech IV sailplane designed by Jack Laister, as well as for the LK-10 (TG-4A). I am excited to add all of these to our product offerings in the future. Herbert Eberbach will be building the new 1/4 scale (4.4 meter) Schweizer SGS 1-23H from our kit beginning in just a couple of weeks. Herbert is pictured below with his 1/5 scale which was featured in Aufwind, the German magazine for soaring enthusiasts. He will be doing a construction article on the large scale 1-23 on those pages and at RC Groups as soon as he gets started. I've also completed what is the most accurate three view of the Bowlus BS-100 Super Albatross from Earl Menefee's drawings with measurements taken from his full size Super. It was a joy to work with such professional drawings to CAD out the entire ship in barely a day, ready to begin the task of engineering it in three scales - 1:6, 1:4, and 1:3. I've made a serious push into large scale models with the release of the the Schweizer SGS 2-8 (TG-2) at whopping 40% scale. This ship is very likely the largest production sailplane kit ever produced in the world at 252" (6.3) meter span. One is in beta build and we hope to be posting the build to our blog and showing photos of it here soon. I also finished parts for the Sailwing 50. Several requests for this model have been made and I think this is going to be a real fun light lift slope glider with a little tweaking and conversion to micro RC. Sailplane plans and kits offered: Schweizer SGP 1-1 SGU 1-7 SGS 2-8 (TG-2) SGS 2-12 (TG-3A/LNS-1) SGU 1-19 SGU 1-20 SGS 1-23 Schweizer SGS 1-26B SGS 1-26D SGS 1-26E SA 1-30 SGS 2-32 SGS 2-33 Other Scale Baker-McMillen Cadet II Hall Cherokee II Slingsby Cadet Tutor Fournier RF4-D Jasco Trooper Thermic C Thermic 50 Thermic 50-X Thermic 70 Thermic 72 Sailwing 50

Ordering Information Please visit our other pages for plans only or replacement parts orders.