Composite Wing (spoiler) !?!?

[MarkyDents]

Never seen this before, to be perfectly honest I’ve had it for a while now and before looking at it closely I thought it was a homemade aluminum wing.
It’s thin, somewhat flexible, yet strong as well.
Any idea what company may have made this ?

[dinglem]

These were made by Composite Craft.

I used to run them on my indoor Mid carpet racer and still have a couple of them. More recently I was actually sent a brand new one for my Mid rebuild.

As you say, very strong and absolutely feather light!

[dinglem]

My original one still in storage, and a new undrilled one. I have a third one on an 870C too. I know I do have a fourth one with a floro Novak sticker across it but i don't seem to have a photo.

Quite cool items and something you don't see very often, now, or back then.

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[dinglem]

Here's number four with the Novak sticker.... looks like it was retired to the door of my pit box due to a split at the mounting point hole.

[MarkyDents]

Composite Craft, of course ! Thank you dinglem
You have a fine collection of them.
I was hoping it was CC, the material weave looks just like that of the upper chassis of my CC worlds car.
Any idea of the year range they were available ?

[dinglem]

Well my indoor Mid days were 88-90ish.

[dinglem]

Bit of an older thread, but i noted the graphite wing availability dates were being discussed. This advert is for the pre-Composite Craft days, so D&D Graphite.

This advert is from a 1986 UK mag, so they were clearly available that early.

I also purchased a UK lightweight RC10 and when I tracked down the original owner he sent me a photo of the very same car surrounded by trophies from 1986... and the car was sporting one of these graphite wings.