Graupner Taifun For Sale

[Jay Turner]

Yep, one of the famous Graupner Taifun sport hydroplanes. Long out of production and rare as hen's teeth. As new, never built, in factory box. Sold as-is with hull, hatch, etc. May be missing a few smaller parts and some decals. Does not include a drive system.

Graupner says:
VERY fast! Skips on the water, partly flying! Deck comes prejoined to the hull. Very little building is needed to complete. Mostly preformed ABS parts. Full of speed-increasing details. 24” long hull.

$60 + Shipping
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[FreeFlight]

I'll take it, how do you want the $$.
Wayne

[Jay Turner]

Okay Wayne, e-mail or PM me your address and I'll send you mine for PayPal, and I'll figure the postage. I'd prefer PayPal, but we can talk. Thanks!

[Dr. Jet]

Good score Wayne! Talk to Jay on how best to set-up the Taifun. He is a wealth of information. I think Jay used a car (or other "500-sized" motor) with a Hughey gearbox in his 10-cell record-setting boat.

Just don't make it faster than my H&M Miss Bud.

[AndyKunz]

Dang! That would have been a great addition to my collection!

Congrats, Wayne, you won't be sorry.

Andy

[BACKEMF]

Dang! That would have been a great addition to my collection!

Congrats, Wayne, you won't be sorry.

Andy


I hope you take time to run them too Andy, collecting is only part of the fun.

[FreeFlight]

I just made adeal with Mike Holland to buy his Graupner running gear,
now How to go as fast as Bill's 12 Cell Hydro on 8 or 10 cells??
Taifun is lighter, What else? What else?

Jay, what prop did you use, and any ideas for using a brushless motor?

anyone else??


InSane Diego Wayne

[AndyKunz]

I hope you take time to run them too Andy, collecting is only part of the fun.

I don't collect for the fun value, Ray. I collect to preserve those things which I believe are historically significant. Plans I collect because I hope to retire one day ;)

I've had several Taifuns for running. They're a great boat, especially on 8 cells. They're a little too short to run legally as P Sport or LSH boats (even with the new method of including the flashing in the hull length), but they are a blast. Good and stable, too.

Hobby Lobby is still selling the running gear kit for them.

Andy

[DJ Campbell]

I still have my Taifun with the stock setup from Graupner. It was a top contender at Batavia a few years back in their version of the LSH class. A great running boat.

[mrrace]

I recently got one of the taifuns brand new and cheap a swell I was very lucky I also got the 1157 power set spending very careful hours making it