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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/5/2012 2:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		To those that have asked if I would do a build thread on the A7, I will post pics of my progress but nothing like a complete build thread.
Thanks Mike.

Added some pics of wing halves being glued together and the central braces of the wing. The completed ailerons and flaps.
Also a pic of the start of building the fuse.

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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/7/2012 3:36 AM   
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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/8/2012 12:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Unclebuck, if you haven't already done so, now would be the perfect time to install some LEDs for a little night flying. It's a great sport plane, night ops plane and camera plane, all rolled into one. I hope you have as much fun with yours as I've had with mine!

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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/8/2012 1:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		 Hmmm I haven't considered that.   I just may have to look into it.  I have never done anything with lights, any suggestions on brands or suppliers?

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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/8/2012 11:42 PM   
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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/9/2012 1:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		eddieC is right on, BPHobbies is a good place to start looking for LED lights. There are lots of sources like Nitro Planes, but the ones in the US can ship quicker and cheaper. Here is a place to check out information about night flying planes:
http://www.rcgroups.com/night-flying-522/
They even have a thread on a Kadet Senior, which might give you some ideas. Good luck!

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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/9/2012 1:57 AM   
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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/9/2012 5:37 PM   
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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/9/2012 10:51 PM   
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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/10/2012 5:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well it became winter here in OKC last night. Thursday it was 73 and ideal for RC flying today it's 21 with a wind chill of -4F.

A humble GWS Spitfire is on the bench. For Spit boffins it is a bit amusing that this kit is a Mk IX painted like a Mk II. I'll be moding one of the radiators back to an oil cooler to get it looking just a bit more like a Mk II

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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/11/2012 1:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi! Y'all: Well I've just started a Sig Kobra that will be electric. The wing is all done except for covering, just started the planning stages of the fuselage. Will have the "bash it a bit" for the motor and removable cockpit, as I don't fancy taking the wing off each time to change batteries or unplug them. I plan to use a GForce G25, e-flite 60amp esc, and e-flite 3s 3200 lipo. A few flakes of snow here today, so this project is right on time.

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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/12/2012 4:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		More Pics of my A7 Corsair prop jet build:
Framing up the fuse and set the wing on to test fit. Cutting out all the formers is a chore
but it is coming together...



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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 12/15/2012 3:48 AM   
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To those that have asked if I would do a build thread on the A7, I will post pics of my progress but nothing like a complete build thread.
Thanks Mike.



Photos will be fine many thanks Yours Paul T

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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 1/2/2013 12:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		Started a Dynaflite Corsair today to add to the others in the stable: F-82, P-40, P-51 and Spitfire. These kits still come available every now and then and the Corsair was purchased last spring. After building and flying a couple of 3mm foamies over the summer, it's fun to be working with balsa again. Have kept a good selection of templates for the Dynaflite kits and "someday" would like to bash out a Hawker Hurricane using a similar fun scale design.

Update: 2 Feb 2013 and the Corsair is starting to look enough like a plane to do some bench flying.

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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 1/2/2013 12:04 AM   
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Status: online 		Building a new fuse for my 33% WACO YMF-5 due to a very bad landing this past spring. The fuse was a total loss. Next on the board is a Sig Wonder.

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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 1/2/2013 12:26 AM   
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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 1/21/2013 3:23 AM   
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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 1/21/2013 3:41 AM   
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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 1/21/2013 8:30 AM   
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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 1/21/2013 7:19 PM   
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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 1/22/2013 7:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		Busa fokker dr1 1/4 scale. I have the three main wings complete. About to start the subwing. Thank god there is only 4 wings to build!! Lmao!

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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 1/23/2013 9:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		Just finished this. I noticed someone else doing an A-7.

This is Rich Uravitch's design. It was in the January 1995 MAN. Has removable landing gear, which I may use on paved runways, otherwise on grass, it may need a hand-launch.

E-Flite Power 32 in the nose.

Will use a 3 or 4 cell Lipo, thinking around 3000 mah

11x7 prop.

She should be quite fast!

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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 1/24/2013 11:19 AM   
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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 1/25/2013 9:21 PM   
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RE: It's Building Season, Whats on your bench? - 1/26/2013 8:42 AM   
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Just finished this. I noticed someone else doing an A-7.

This is Rich Uravitch's design. It was in the January 1995 MAN. Has removable landing gear, which I may use on paved runways, otherwise on grass, it may need a hand-launch.

E-Flite Power 32 in the nose.

Will use a 3 or 4 cell Lipo, thinking around 3000 mah

11x7 prop.

She should be quite fast!


Nice!!

I would think that a higher kv motor in a similar size from perhaps scorpion would produce more rpm?

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