The Ka-1 (above) had a wooden fuselage with the same wing & tail as the Ka-3

As an enthusiastic glider pilot he built models and flew his "C" badge in 1942. After the war he became a civil engineer and a self-taught aeronautical engineer. He built his first sailplane, the Ka 1 in 1951/52 in the attic of his parent's house. It was small and easy to build with a wing span of 30ft, 129 lbs. empty weight and a V-tail. The fuselage was a plywood shell construction with a wood and fabric strut supported wing.

The Ka-3 was a re-design using a metal framework fuselage

A year after the Ka 1 was built Kaiser had already flown the Ka 3, a single seater that used the wing and tail of the Ka 1, but the fuselage was of steeltubing construction making it suitable for kit construction

Copy of original Ka 3 drawings

Alistair Bodin displays his recently built first scale project Ka-3 from the Charlsworth plan. Alistair flies on Watership Downs near Kingslere and Beacon Hill. Build pictures of this model will be found in Cliff Charlsworths report