ThunderBoat42

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My 10yr old Daughter was with me at the Hobby shop and expressed interest in a Gillows cub. Excited in r interest I said YES build it!

Opening the box ws flood of memories of the long ago days of building hese stick and tissue wonders.

Now laser cut, ultra light weight covering materials and mirco motors, rceivers etc makes this an exciting aventure

Anyone else converting a Gillows plane to RC? ws looking at the new 3 axis receiver Horizon just rleased never venturing into electric - there a LOT to learn about micro and electric systems

Excited about his bild!

exocet-RCU

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See my thread on the Guillows Zero in this forum. I'm almost done with it. It was a laser cut kit and I have been happy with it. It is definitely not for the heavy handed.... It seemed like I could LOOK at a stringer and hear it crack. Still, it has been an enjoyable build. Hope to finish it this weekend.

Tim

Dan Vincent

I had a friend named Herb Birmingham who lived in Stoney Point, NY. Herb taught shop classes in the local high school and was a great machinist and even did casting for scratch-built engine and parts like timer housings.

Herb love tiny models, usually powered with Cox .020 engines. He had many Guillows models and flew them with the little Ace Actuator for rudder RC control. I was very impressed with a little Fokker DR-1 he built.

I lost track of Herb over the years but he was a master modeler.

cfircav8r

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I'm almost done with a Guillows giant scale Hellcat converted to 4 ch electric. I have done a maiden and it flew great, even though it is above the max recommended wing loading for a scale plane. The only mods I made were to reduce the wing incidence and decrease the dihedral to a more scale angle. I put a Super Tiger .10 outrunner,10-6E APC prop, a 25 Amp speed control and a 1200mAH LiPo. I never needed full throttle. I am running the light sullivan push/pull cables on one servo for the ailerons and the solid wires in a sleeve for the rudder and elevator. I am very pleased with the results as I have often had double centering with these types of installations due to binding, however all controls are solid and return to center every time. It handles like a larger plane and has great slow speed characteristics. It is finished in regular monokote (some old stuff I had lying around from the early 90's.) It is finished per the plans as far as an open stringer construction and nothing was done to beef any of it up except to use the plastic spar and firewall. I haven't been able to finish it completely so have not flown it anymore, but I am looking forward to spring.

skaliwag

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cfircav8r ... Pictures por Favor...

cfircav8r

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These are from when I was still finishing it. I don't have anything current right now.

scale dail

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I RC'd the Guillows Hellcat in 1983. Sheeted and glassed. Flaps but no retracts[&o] G Mark .061 good throttle. 42oz. a little heavy. Flew that way too. I still have it! It's a Hangar Queen now.

Dan Vincent

Very nice building and finish.

cfircav8r

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Beautiful Hellcat.