tahfiet

Hi guys!

I am still collecting documentation of the Cougar, before I will start to build on. The last couple of weeks I was browsing the internet to see if there is any F9F-8 out there to get pictures. I am looking for a grey and white colour-scheme, with the "regular" nose, not the photo-recon one. I really like the one from Singapore, flown on TopGun.

Does anyone of you know a museum/airfield in the U.S. where I can find one? Or does someone have a set of useful pictures? Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,


David

tahfiet

Just to give you a clue what I am looking for:

BeanerECMO

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Go to NAS Pensacola Wings of Gold Museum. It may not be grey, but it is Navy. Also, visit www.pwam.org/f9f8coug.htm
I haven't been the the Air and Space Museum near Dulles IAP, Washington, DC, but I don't doubt there is one there as well.

tahfiet

Thank you!

I spent a couple hours on web-research. There are just 4 grey Cougars I found. Three in the USA all stored outside. Patuxent, Pima and Pensacola. And one with red stripes in Korea. Well, I keep searching, if someone has anymore information, I would be happy to know.

David

Jeff Foley

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David,

I have climbed all over the one at Patuxent River....measuring and photographing. It is in pretty rough shape with lots of corrosion. There is a cast resin kit available from:http://fishermodels.com that is pretty accurate, and I believe they have some documentation with it as well. I love this airplane too and hope to build one at some point. Damn work keeps getting in the way.

Jeff

tahfiet

Hi Jeff!

Thank you for your information. They do look good, don't they? I have parts for a wooden Cougar in the work-shop, but time is the limiting factor. That's why I will go the fiberglass-way with an Airworld-kit.

David

Malcolm Kay

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HEY DAVID, I AM BUILDING AN AIRWORLD F9F COUGAR RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK AND I HAVE THE GREY AND WHITE WITH INTERNATIONAL ORANGE MARKINGS IN A THREE VIEW PLAN AND i ALSO HAVE A SPARE THREE VIEW WITH ALL THE SPECIFICATIONS IF YOU WANT A COPY.... YOU CAN E-MAIL ME AT [email protected]OLM

Ram-bro

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I have a JHH COugar that I am finishiing. Here are some of the pics that I will be choosing from.

flyme2moon

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I would like to build a cougar, I need ifo on PALMER PLANS by precision cut has anyone built on of these?? I have the plans, waiting to buy the wood kit this plan was designed in the 1990"s or so for glow ducted fan I woud like to go electric, any info , please share..... Ray

k_sonn

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I have the Palmer plans also. Plan to get the wood kit from Precision. I will also build mine as an electric. I plan to use the Schubleler DS-77 HST fan. I have that fan in a Ziroi Panther and it flies it better than scale and sounds as close to a turbine as one could get.

Kirk

flyme2moon

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Change in plans........ I recently bought a partialy assembled zirol Panther complete withretracts ( Robart) and a O.S engine with fan and all of the misc. parts ..... I still plan to go electric ................. Any thoughts............. will provide photos

jetster

Heres one I built from palmer plans, have yet to maiden it, P80 power,24lb.

AVIOJET

Hi Jetster,

I also have the Palmer plans but I guess it is a little small for a P-120, so I am thinking to enlarge the plans at 1:5 scale, the same size of the Skymaster one, so I can get the canopy.

BTW I am very interested in your comments about the maiden to take a decision. Thanks in advance.

BR

Jesus

Dave Wilshere

The Airworld one needs some work to be scale, quite a lot is wrong! I spent ages looking at the Cougar and have some books. The Derjet version I was flying yesterday is closer to scale

Dave

tow

Have to agree the Der Jet one being quite scale as far as outline goes at least. Flies well too.

thunderceptor

My Derjet Cougar flies since 2010, flies perfectly and looks quite in scale:

mr_matt

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jetster your plane looks fantastic, how was the palmer plan to build? Did you get a laser cut kit from someone? Any deviations to the plans?

Any more pictures of your build?

Thanks so much!

jetster

Mr Matt, the fuse part of the plans are good,you need to beef up the wing tubes,the wing and stab part of the plane needs a lot of work,as in parts not fitting,parts wrong size ect. I cut my own parts because so much has to be changed for turbine power,but when done it has a very scale look and with ready to fly weight of 24lb.less fuel, it should fly well,I have yet to fly mine,It looks like next year now to much going on,when I do I will post results, jetster

fire.42

Some images of Ron Sweeney's two seater from Peter Nye semi kit.

cheers

Dave