{"id":8348,"date":"2021-09-17T12:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?p=8348"},"modified":"2021-09-17T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:28:41","slug":"two-new-short-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/two-new-short-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Short Kits!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce two new Short Kits coming out of the FAC Outdoor Champs earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Welshans was able to successfully fly his Comet AYA#4 prototype Short Kit.\u00a0 This is a reproduction of Comet&#8217;s 1940 AYA#4 kit from 1940.\u00a0 This rarely-seen kit makes a nice 25&#8243; cabin\/fuselage model and should be a good flyer in FAC&#8217;s 2-Bit Plus One event.\u00a0 Thanks to David Narance, Dan Driscoll, and Mike Welshans for making this happen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8344\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AYA4-Dan-and-Dave-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8344\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8344\" src=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AYA4-Dan-and-Dave-s-965x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AYA4-Dan-and-Dave-s-965x1024.jpg 965w, https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AYA4-Dan-and-Dave-s-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AYA4-Dan-and-Dave-s-768x815.jpg 768w, https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AYA4-Dan-and-Dave-s.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Driscoll and David Narance with their AYA #4s at the 2021 AMA Outdoor Nats.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Find the AYA#4 short kit <a href=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?product=comets-aya4-short-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second short kit is our Folkerts SK-2 Indoor NoCal short kit modified for Outdoor use.\u00a0 Many of the laser-cut parts were reworked to make them more robust for outdoor abuse and some portions of the plan were redesigned for the same reason.\u00a0 James Martin suggested the change and I built and flew the prototype at Muncie.\u00a0 I also made tissue templates for the &#8220;Toots&#8221;.\u00a0 You can use the free &#8220;Toots&#8221; or the &#8220;Miss Detroit&#8221; for either the Indoor or Outdoor versions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SK2NCOut-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-8323\" src=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SK2NCOut-01-1024x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SK2NCOut-01-1024x399.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SK2NCOut-01-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SK2NCOut-01-768x300.jpg 768w, https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SK2NCOut-01.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find the Outdoor Folkerts short kit <a href=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?product=folkerts-sk-2-outdoor-nocal-short-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find the Indoor Folkerts short kit <a href=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?product=folkerts-sk-2-miss-detroit-nocal-short-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce two new Short Kits coming out of the FAC Outdoor Champs earlier this month. Mike Welshans was able to successfully fly his Comet AYA#4 prototype Short Kit.\u00a0 This is a reproduction of Comet&#8217;s 1940 AYA#4 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/two-new-short-kits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}