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RE: Your First Warbird? - 9/16/2003 3:11:03 AM   
vicman



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Status: offline 		My first was a jk aerotech Corsair (ugly foam and tape combat job ). I went thru the Mustang and the FW 190. I liked the FW 190 the best ( built three of em ). I consider my first good warbird a PT-19 (.40 size Texas) built from a set of free plans in RC Scale. This is possibly the smoothest plane I have flown! I am planning to build a Wing MFG FW 190 in the near future. After all those Corsair kits I have laying around.
Hope you find one you like. Have you thought of trying the GWS electrics? The Tiger Moth is an excellent flyer.

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RE: Your First Warbird? - 4/4/2008 2:14:20 PM   
cubnpede82


 

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From: Yakima, WA, USA
Status: offline 		Hey guys, thought I'd try to revive this thread

Electrics have come leaps and bounds in recent years

I have a GWS t-6 and soon will build a P-40, the new GWS birds are about 40" so they're good size, but still a foamie and easy to take to the park, about $60 for kit, $60 for motor and ESC, and $60 for servos, and all you need now is a Rx/Tx and LiPo, hope there's some interest in this thread once it gets a new post.
Check out the E-Flite sea fury 400 coming out soon, or the P-47 they already have out, the P-47 flies great on a park 450 , but I'm hung up on KA22-20L motors, can't beat the price and power for a 28mm outrunner. Also, the GP combat series looks good, I may do the Spit.
T-28 Trojan has been a good one for a few at the park I fly at.

Laters,
Isaiah shadymoon1282@yahoo.com

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RE: Your First Warbird? - 4/4/2008 5:54:03 PM   
bigtim


 

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Status: offline 		first warbird TF Spitfire,first flown warbird Hangar-9 P-40 warhawk with a OS 91 surpassII great flyer.

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RE: Your First Warbird? - 4/4/2008 7:21:29 PM   
mscic-RCU



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Status: offline 		Sig J3 Cub converted to an L4

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RE: Your First Warbird? - 4/4/2008 8:53:26 PM   
NoFlaps


 

Posts: 943
Joined: 6/25/2004
From: Louisville, KY, USA
Status: offline 		MY FIRST WARBIRD WAS A:
MIDWEST 1/2a CHIPMUNK KIT
2ND SURE-FLITE P-39
3RD L4 CUB-SIG
4TH GLOBAL P-51D
5TH GLOBAL ME 109
6TH NITROPLANES P-47
7TH ASTROPLANES ELECTRIC ME109
8TH GLOBAL CORSAIR
9TH DYMOND TIGERMOTH
10TH KYOSHO ZERO
11TH YOSHO STEARMAN
12TH KYOSHO PT-19
13TH KYOSHO P-40
14TH EZ PLANES FW190
15TH GLOBAL FOKKER D VII
16TH BALSA USA TAUBE
17TH GREAT PLANES STUKA
18TH VMAR PC9
19TH GREAT PLANES GIANT PT-17
20TH TOP FLITE GIANT P-47
21ST TOP FLITE P-39
22ND GREAT PLANES AT6
23RD GREAT PLANES FOKKER Dr.1
24TH NITROPLANES FW190
25TH VQ P-51B
26TH H9 P-47
27TH KMP SEAFURY
28TH WM GIANT ZERO
29TH BOB HOLMAN BUKKER JUNGMEISTER
30TH WM GIANT P-51D
31ST CERMARK F-16
32ND VQ A4 SKYHAWK
33RD SKYSHARK GIANT P-40
34TH BHM P-36
35TH CERMARK SPITFIRE
36TH KMP ME 109
37TH SIG P-51B
38TH KMP P-47
39TH NITROPLANES ZERO
40TH FLYBOYHOBBIES ME163

I'M SURE THERE WERE MORE...BUT THIS LIST IS PRETTY CLOSE TO CORRECT
OF COURSE I'M NOT INCLUDING THE GUILLOWS RUBBERBAND OR COX CONTROL LINES PLANES THAT WERE THE START OF THIS ADDICTION~




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RE: Your First Warbird? - 4/4/2008 9:44:35 PM   
andernamen



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Status: offline 		I highly recommend the Top Flite P-40 Warhawk as your first warbird. Glassed with retracts, a .60 size motor and without flaps. If you can handle that, you can handle anything!!

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RE: Your First Warbird? - 9/5/2008 4:43:52 PM   
VeeAte



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From: Geraldton, AUSTRALIA
Status: offline 		My first Warbird arrived today.

NitroPlanes Hawker Seafury 90 4st size. Got a new ASP 91 4st on the way and a bunch of other goodies.

Although it will be a loooooong time before I fly it as I am still on my trainer. I have 5 other planes on the way that arent warbirds...... actually one is a P51 Miss America! hehe

I hope I dont chew through them all any time soon!!!

I want to wait until I can master the trainer. Then some of the low wing planes I have on the way. Then the BiPlane.....
The Seafury will be my little celebration when I figure I am good enough to get her up and back in one piece.

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RE: Your First Warbird? - 9/5/2008 6:42:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		my first warbird was a Hangar 9 P-51 pts,"my first trainer!!!",for second an At-6 Texan to the Grauppner.

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RE: Your First Warbird? - 9/5/2008 6:59:02 PM   
Deano1661


 

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Status: offline 		My first warbird was a DeAgostini Spitfire, built weekly from a magazine, then I got it a playmate, the Kyosho Me109 and of course I had to have the Kyosho fw190 when it arrived over the pond and just last sunday I became the proud owner of a VQ P51D Gunnin for Glory, want a Zero or the Ki 61 next

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RE: Your First Warbird? - 9/5/2008 7:16:46 PM   
fokke


 

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From: Sofia, BULGARIA
Status: online 		Hi guys
this is my first model this is C/L model from 20 years ago



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RE: Your First Warbird? - 9/5/2008 8:11:46 PM   
RVman


 

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From: Guelph, ON,
Status: offline 		this is my first (and only) warbird. I built it last winter from an old platt kit. Flies very well, and I will likely build more in the future.

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RE: Your First Warbird? - 9/5/2008 9:12:59 PM   
carlbecker



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Status: offline 		My first warbird was a 1/5 Grumman Wildcat. 92" ws 30 pounds with a Saito 450. Sweet flying plane.

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RE: Your First Warbird? - 9/5/2008 9:28:15 PM   
jescardin


 

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From: Talamanca de JaramaMadrid, SPAIN
Status: offline 		Hi friends.

My first warbird was also my first model: a Modelhob rubber driven FF Focke Wulf 190 I built with my father when I was 10, 30 years ago. We built quite straight and beautifull but used TOO much spray paint for finnishing it making it TOO heavy. We never got to flying it and it became an "Hangar Queen" at my beedroom.

Then my first succesfull warbird was my second CL model, also a Modelhob kit althought a profile P-51D Mustang this time, about 5 years later. It proved a total success and lasted quite long allowing me to learn to fly and even make quite some aerobatics.

My first RC warbird was a semiscale ME 109 E, again from Modelhob, for a .25 engine which they developed for aircombat together with a same scale Dewoatine during the early 80´s. Modelhob was the major -and nearly only-Spanish model manufacturer and imported kits like those from Pilot and Graupner were scarce and very expensive for most of us but unfortunately, like most of the most remembered and respected kit manufacturers is long "decesed"; it also was a major success for me (althought not for many other Spanish RC fliers) but even so I decided to include rudder control for a more confortable take off from ground. It also lasted quite a few years and was a most rewarding model.

Then it has been quite a long time before warbirds reached my workshop again but, like a coincidence, most of my current projects are almost exclusevely warbirds models -most from KMP like their 109 E, their 190 and even their B-25-.

So, from my point of view, warbirds are more rewarding but, believe me, never start your model career with such a complex model.

Best regards from Spain,

Jesus Cardin

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RE: Your First Warbird? - 9/5/2008 9:29:46 PM   
M_Callahan


 

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Status: offline 		My first warbird was a Pica T-28. 65" span. Had a como .75 2 stroke engine, flaps but had
fixed gear. That was in 1987.

Mike

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RE: Your First Warbird? - 9/5/2008 9:47:49 PM   
NCIS


 

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From: Janesville, WI, USA
Status: offline 		My 1st of a Warbird addiction. My TF 1/8 scale GE F4U-1D Corsair with a Saito 125 for power with all the trimmings including all the lights on the full scale version. This was my practice build for the monster yet to come which brings us to my second Warbird build. Now I'm building a 1/4 Scale 121.5" wingspan F4U-7 Corsair from Don Smith plans. Powered by a 20 hp 200 cc 3W engine swinging a 32" diameter 4 blade Solo prop. Otherwise known as the Beast! I also Have a Balsa USA 1/3 scale 109" wingspan Sopwith Pup with a Zenoah G62 ready for paint and in the production line of things to do. Here they are. But I'm really a Corsair JUNKY!!!

Gibbs/Corsair Kidd
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