Father of the Funtana, The

Model Airplane News, Jun 2004 by Bell, Rick

If you have followed the Tournament of Champions for the past few years, you've seen the name Sebastiane Silvestri up there with competitors Chip Hyde, Quique Somenzini and Jason Shulman. This Italian superstar quickly carved out his spot as one of the world's leading innovators in 3D flying and airplane design. He has competed in several TOCs, is an expert in F3A aerobatics and is a freestyle master. He has amazed audiences all over the world. His very popular scale aerobatic design known as "the Katana" is based on the Terzi Katana, and his latest TOC version, the Katana S, has been seen in model-aviation magazines worldwide.

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As the designer of Hangar 9's Funtana, Sebastiano's goal was to create a smaller version of his Funtana S 1.20, which he uses for 3D practice, and still have the same flying characteristics and the 3D capability of his large TOC Katana S. One distinctive feature of the Funtana S .40 is the tapered, constant-thickness airfoil. By using an airfoil section at the wing's center that is 11.5 percent of the thickness of the chord and a thicker, 20-percent airfoil at the tip, Sebastiane has been able to create a model that has stable low-speed characteristics much like his giant-scale aerobatic plane, yet it still flies very precisely. -Rick Bell

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