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Approximate Date: 1995
Owner: Roly Williams
Owner's website: http://uk.geocities.com/rolywilliams/midwest_fantail_launch.html
Notes: Supplied as two kits, one for the hull and one for the steam engine. Fitted with radio control on the tiller. Built and customised by Roly Williams and named 'Firebird'. Overall length 480mm. Single cylinder, single acting, oscillating cylinder. Vertical flue-tube boiler, originally designed to be fired with Sterno fuel (usually fired with broken up Esbit tablets).