travel air mystery ship rc airplane kit

Would like to locate a Travel Air Mystery Ship kit, wingspan 70 inches or larger?
In 1924, Walter Beech, Bill Snook, and came from Lloyd Stearman and Clyde Cessna, a new company, Travel Air Manufacturing Co. They designed a series of fine biplane and monoplane model 6000. In 1927, Cessna left Travel Air to his own company.
Walter Beech felt the best way to promote travel by Air Racing. In the 1920s, the military dominated the unlimited racing class with decomposed fighters with the latest and most powerful engines. Air Travel engineers. Herb Rawdon and Walter Burnham, she beat the army and navy through careful planning of a new racer. The National Air Races of 1929 were less than a year away, when Rawdon and Burnham began work on the design.
The design follows the recent Schneider Cup Racer, low wings with wire and a firm anchoring gear. Search for a suitable engine was a problem, but Wright finally an experimental engine, the J-5, capable of 420 hp. They accepted the engine, feeling the large frontal area could be achieved by NACA type cap. Chevrolet also an experimental, 300 HP inline six-cylinder, inverted, and the engine also has been accepted, because the engineers decided that the construction of two riders plus a third racing biplane. It was now only ten weeks before the race, when construction began on the three planes!
Secrecy was enforced on the Travel Air plant for the new project. The windows of the separate system was dull and doors were closed. The press, mostly unsuccessfully information, the project of "Mystery Ship".
The planes were ready to fly from 18th August. The little biplane was first. Unfortunately, it caught fire when the engine to the rear and was heavily damaged. The secret R614K ship was flown by Clarance Clark, at first without the cap, and the performance was outstanding. Even without the cap, the model R 185 hits over 225 km / h and with the new cap NACA available. The second model R with the Chevrolet engine was disappointing. Maximum speed was only 150 km / h and never had problems, engine solved. After the race was the Chevrolet with a Wright J6-7-engine, and was at Pancho Barnes. This aircraft still exists.
On the last day of the National Air Races in Cleveland in 1929, seven riders lined for fifty miles, and free for all races for the Thompson Trophy, the biggest race of the year. On this day, Doug Davis and the small red and black Mystery Ship beat the army and navy at the best, forever changed, and military aviation. Davis had an average of 194.96 MPH. His fastest lap was 208.6 km / h and it clocked at 235 km / h in the straight aways. And although he again and again by a missed pylon he circle back to the front and left the military ships far behind.
That was faster than any other civilian aircraft ever flown. People jumped all the news about the military and pepered with issues such as the best military ships had lost the race to a civilian aircraft. The shock waves caused by this defeat and embarrassment of the military would lead to the total solar eclipse of the biplane in the army and two years later in the Navy.