tevans55

[/quote]
That is the one that I installed. I had to cut away the last former and put a new one in further forward to get the tailwheel to fit. Mine works great and yes it did not add a lot of extra weight.

[/quote]

Skillet-
Yeah, I did the same...made a new former a little more forward. That was fun. My tail gear was not assembled straight and I had a heck of a time getting a system where the gear doors would work properly. Took about 3 weeks of trying different setups till I got something to work. For me, one of the best parts of the hobby is getting stuff like this to work properly.

Rcflyinmike-
If I might suggest a flap servo...Power HD 1501MG. I got this servo at ValueHobby.com. It is 236 oz/in of torque on 6 volts for $12.85. This thing is a stump puller for the price.

rcflyinmike

rcflyinmike

Sigh:

skillet92

Oh man! I had started to post on what a PITA bending that wire was. I might have something that will work. I will check today and let ya know.

rcflyinmike

Thanks Skillet,

I called Customer Service, Said They would get the correct gear in the mail.
But Thanks Anyway!!

This might be Rare and someday a maybe a collectors Item, A Beam Mounted Syssa for my Corsair!

rcflyinmike

Just the "rough-in" Stage of the engine install, The beam motor mount blocked the mixture screws and choke linkage so I went with the Stand off's.
That opened up the Beam mount on the Engine for this...

rcflyinmike

Hmm, 2.5 deg. right thrust ,ok.  1.5 deg. Down?  Or should I adjust that out?

tevans55

Don't adjust anything built into the firewall. Both of mine flew great with no adjustments.

aghost

My Feedback: (13)

+1 on the "don't adjust the firewall".

skillet92

All of my ESM planes fly great with the engines mounted straight to the firewall.

rcflyinmike

[quote]ORIGINAL: DOC

1. I put the engine in with 2.5 deg. rt thrust.

Okay, Now I'm Confused.

skillet92

RC he just added to what was already there. I can tell ya I have built two of these Corsairs and have a mustang and a FW-190 that all have gas engines. 2 30cc dles for the mustang and FW and a G-38 for the corsair. All of mine fly great. Mounted ll mine straight to the firewall. The only thing I did was strengthen the firewall in the back.

rcflyinmike

Thanks Skillet,
aghost the firewall is all original my ajustment is in the tapered ply carb spacer that I made according to Syssa's, mounting template.
The 3 leg design makes an easy bind free standoff install.
I'm just trying to make it trackstraight at lift off, by compensating for enginetorque.

tevans55

FYI, the full scale Corsair has 2 degrees of down thrust.

rcflyinmike

2 deg. dn. I had no idea tevans, Thanks, what about right thrust?

tevans55

Not sure about the engine right thrust but the verticle stab was 2.5 degrees if I remember correctly.

st_dysan

My Feedback: (21)

Hey all

I keep looking at some of the pics but I can't tell how the "gear doors"(not true gear doors but the ones that are mounted facing forward on the strut) are mounted. Do most do some custom attachment because I don't have any parts that will attach them that came with my kit. Im to that point in the build, any suggestions.

thanks in advance

Casey

tevans55

Casey-
I used a flat DuBro nylon hinge to attach the gear door to the leading edge of the wing. I then epoxied a brass tube (1/16" dia. I think), 3 3/8" inches down the door on the back side. You can use wire or a small spring to wrap around strut. This allows the door to ride along the strut while it retracts and rotates. Hope that helps.

speedpro 1

Another successful maiden here with a zenoah g26i Started with 12 oz on front of engine on back side of dummy radial but that proved to be nose heavy. A lot if not all down was needed inverted fly great and was even slower on landing than I thought. Needed a ton of right trim flying. Has Anybody else had to put that much right trim in?

skillet92

Congrats on the successful maiden. Speedpro how much does yours weight if you know? And where is yours balanced? I ask because i am trying to do my maiden one afternoon this week. A local club is having a warbird flyin and i would love to take my corsair. Right now i am right at 19pounds and balanced at 4 1/2 inchs or 115mm. I have a g38 up front and still put some lead up there, but i also have a retractable tailwheel. I am just wondering if i cam move my cg back. I had another one a year ago but because of an engine failure i lost it. This one is set up the same i just am wondering if i coyld make it a little lighter. And i had to add some trim on my first one dont remember how much. Does yours have the high speed corsair waggle?

speedpro 1

It's 18 lb. not sure on balance. Used my fingers I thought was 4 1/2 I couldn't get my balancer I use to work because of the bent wing all I know is inverted it took a lot of down to keep level. I have stock tail wheel but full cockpit. On the waggle ill let you know didn't do any high speed runs on first flight

skillet92

Cool. Yes i could not get my great plane balancer to work for my first one so i built one that i use on my heavier planes. This corsair is the heaviest i have so far and it handles it with no problem. Is the g 26 plenty of power?

speedpro 1

Yes the 26 flys my fine. I did notice climb out a little slower than my esm ki84 with the same engine but will cruise at half throttle. Next time out ill known more as I will put it though its paces. the 26 has a 17x6 apc

speedpro 1

Pics

tevans55

Well I had my maiden flight this week and all in all it was rather uneventful except for the snap roll, three spins and recovery about 50 feet from the ground. Luckily I had my good friend John standing beside me because it all lasted about 4 seconds...no time to think just react.

Takeoff was straight down the runway with a gradual climb out to about 200 feet. I made about 5 circuits of the field to trim and then pulled the gear up and trim was perfect. I flew gentle turns and horizontal eights and a few low passes and everything was running great. I decided after about 8 minutes to climb to about 300 feet and set up for landing. I pulled the throttle back about a third, dropped the gear and started to click the flaps down. My flaps are on a left, rear slider and at the fifth click the plane snap rolled inverted and headed straight to the ground in a spin. I pulled the flaps up as my finger was still on the flap slider and countered the spin and pulled back on the elevator as the roll stopped. The plane slowly pulled level and began a slow climb. After I made a lap of the field and started breathing again I pulled the throttle back to just above idle and started to drop the flaps again. The plane slowed nicely as I turned on final I dropped the throttle to idle and made a nice slow landing without a bounce and taxied back to the pit. At that point I looked at John and said it was way to early in the morning for that much adrenalin. It took about an hour before I was ready for the next flights which were uneventful. Conclusion was to much speed and to much flap made the whole system unstable. We checked everything and flaps were matched and working properly with plenty of power on separate channels. Live and learn...

Third photo is post maiden flight!