Built and flown by Mike Brewer of Astoria Oregon. Scratch built from plans, Enya VT240 for power.

Beautiful scale Stinson Reliant? Top flite? Very nicely flown at the Wenatchee Red Apple Flyers field in Washington state. Looks like its powered by a Twin glow motor, looks to fly well.

The Stinson Reliant was a popular singleengine four to fiveseat highwing monoplane manufactured by the Stinson Aircraft Division of the Aviation Manufacturing Corporation of Wayne, Michigan.

Design and development[edit]
The Reliant is a threeplace highwing fixed tailwheel land monoplane powered with a variety of radial engines.[1]

1,327 Reliants of all types were made from 1933 to 1941, in different models, from SR1 to SR10. The final commercial model, the Stinson Reliant SR10, was introduced in 1938. A militarized version was first flown in February 1942 and remained in production through several additional versions (all externally identical) until late 1943 for the US and British armed forces.[citation needed]

Reliant production can be broken into two distinct types – the straightwing Reliants (all models up to SR6) and the gullwing Reliants (all models from SR7 and after, including the militarized V77/AT19), with there being little in common between the two groups of types. The straightwing Reliant had a wing of constant chord and thickness which was supported by two struts each side with additional bracing struts. In contrast the taperwing Reliant had the broadest chord and thickness of the wing at midspan, with the outer wing trailing edge heavily angled forward and a rounded cutout on the leading edge root, all supported by a single strut. The taper wing had a significant step up between the fuselage and the wing, and the changes in wing thickness gave it a distinct gull appearance from the front.[citation needed]