The Red Cumic 100 flew today for the first time in a couple years at 6000 Ft in Colorado Springs.

It’s first flight was in Tucson back in 2017 I believe, this fine 1972 Renaud Design Sailplane sports a E385 airfoil, app 5 3/4 inch chord, and weighs in at under 35 oz.

The plane was never kitted, though a few kits where handed out to Lees friends back in the last Century

The original design included full flying articulating stab surfaces like the Aquila and Sagitta, but made the plane a handfull to fly.

thanks to an enormous amount of feedback from the owner of the above pictured Cumic, the stabs where changed to fixed with app. 30 % movable surface.

The fuselage is similar in shape to the more popular Aquila Series

Launching this plane is easily done with an F3L histart, and I have flown mine many times at about 8 to 9 lbs Tension on the line.

The sleek Cumic has a high 16:1 aspect ratio, and today some 50 plus years later can keep up with the best of the latest 2M lightweights in some cases in the right hands, outfly them, albeit you need to be mindful of your speed especially in descent, where I would recommend using spoilers as much as possible.

A number of other changes were added to these updated Cumics in 2017

• single 1/4 wing rod
• increased dihedral angle
• increased polyhedral angle
• spoilers added

If you would like to read more and follow the Build please have a look here, Cumic Build , where you can find more details on the exhaustive efforts made recreating ribs, and other parts for a very fine Sailplane

To close here’s another picture of this fine plane, and I might add very rare, as there is quite possibly only 3 or 4 in all of North America