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RE: crop duster r/c - 5/28/2004 1:08:26 PM   
RandyL


 

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Status: offline 		I like these Ag threads. You all have some nice airplanes and good ideas. Crop dusters are always great scale projects. I have a page about my own Ag-Cat that contains a link to the plans and a link to a .25 size kit that can be built electric as well. Scroll down my homepage and click on the Ag-Cat link.

http://www.flyinglindy.homestead.com/index1.html

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RE: crop duster r/c - 5/28/2004 6:24:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		My father in law used to own two special built callair A-4 crop dusters that he used for tow planes. I'm going to modify some callair A-9 plans and replicate the open cockpit A-4 he had. They were ugly as sin but their won't be any others flying with me.

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RE: crop duster r/c - 5/31/2004 11:30:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi crop duster fans,

I am in the process of moving house so no workshop

I am selling the full plans and hardware pack of the N,Z. products
1/4 188 Agwagon.

Cost me 295 USD. Will sell for the same plus postage.

Regards,

Jaime Hilario
Portugal.

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RE: crop duster r/c - 5/31/2004 5:11:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		OMG, your Ag-Cat is totally awesome!!!

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RE: crop duster r/c - 5/31/2004 6:08:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		I just finished my agwagon from some enlarged RCM plans. It has a 72" wingspan, a full cockpit and a hopper under the bottom but I am having a real doozy of a time from keeping the power from leaking into the fuselage. It took me a year to build because I am in the military and it was my first attempt at building from plans. It has about five flights on it but I think I want something a little larger in the range of the airtractor or the thrush.

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RE: crop duster r/c - 6/1/2004 1:45:22 AM   
RandyL


 

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Status: offline 		I really enjoy having my Ag-Cat. You may want to consider trying a smoke system on your 72" Agwagon instead of powder. So far I like the smoke my G-38 turns out. Low passes look decent and I still do not have my piping in place. The smoke smells good too as it drifts by.


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RE: crop duster r/c - 6/1/2004 5:40:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		Randy,

Just out of curiosity, have you checked into the scale radial engines to see if there is one that would be a good fit on your Cat? That would be the ultimate on an Ag Cat your size. I am about to order the plans and kit in about a week. Aside from flying R/C, I've got a little over 3,000 hours in real aircraft, and around 1300 of that is in 450 and 600 Ag Cats. Flew 4 seasons over in Arkansas doing rice work.

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RE: crop duster r/c - 6/1/2004 12:52:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, There is a motor kit out now days that will fit it. Williams Bros makes a 1/5 and a 1/4 scale radial kit that look very nice and is right around 100 bucks. There was no such thing when I built mine some years back... http://www.williamsbrosinc.com/rc.html

My engine is called a 9CSPR. That stands for Nine Cylinder Sewer Pipe Radial. The crankcase is a Cool Whip bowl and the cylinders were made by clamping a section of sump pump outlet tubing to a straght edge ( angle iron ) and filling it with spray foam..then the individual cylinders were cut from this stick of corogated tubing. Holes were cut in the Cool Whip bowl and the cylinders were snapped in place. A disc of 1/4 balsa make up the front of the crankcase and clothes hanger wire make up the pushrods. All in all it made up a decent way to hide the G-38.
The plans show no cowling, engine or fuel systems, or radio suggestions. They are plans for the airframe only. It does fly very, very nice however and is worth all the effort to build. I have a lot more pics and general info if you get into the project as you plan. Here is a shot of the nose of the Ag-Cat plans. I have all the plans on photos in case something ever happens to them.

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RE: crop duster r/c - 6/1/2004 2:23:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Randy, I have considered using smoke but I have never used one before and I was tolds they it wasn't a good idea to use it on a four stroke engine. If I could figure out a way I would surely try it.

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RE: crop duster r/c - 6/1/2004 2:52:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was in contact with someone that actually had great smoke from a OS 52 Surpass. I'll see if I can add some pics later. That story made me decide to order a nice sullivan skywriter smokepump at Tower Hobbies.

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RE: crop duster r/c - 6/1/2004 5:03:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		Those dummy radials from Williams are really nice looking. I was actually thinking more along the lines of a Robart R780 engine. That Ag Cat just begs to have a real scale radial engine sitting out front.

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RE: crop duster r/c - 6/1/2004 6:37:23 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Lowlevlflyer

Randy,

I've got a little over 3,000 hours in real aircraft, and around 1300 of that is in 450 and 600 Ag Cats. Flew 4 seasons over in Arkansas doing rice work.


Lowlevlflyer: Just out of curiosity, where do you get your engines? Do they have a little yellow sticker on them? Reason I ask is that I used to build 985's and 1340's at Aero-Engines when I was working as an A&P back in the early 80's. Our main customers were dusters.

Tom

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RE: crop duster r/c - 6/2/2004 1:40:09 AM   
Lowlevlflyer


 

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Status: offline 		Both of the 450's I flew had Covingtons on them, but the last one I was in had a geared 1340 from Aero, mated to a three blade Albatross prop. That engine had 140 SMOH on it when I started flying it, and it was a total workhorse! I can remember several times when we filled the hopper almost full and I could still get off the runway. I never once felt nervous about sitting behind that engine... I cant say that about the two Convingtons. Both of them would burp and stumble now and then, just to make your butt draw up and your mouth get dry! But, I guess that's just part of being a radial engine driver.

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RE: crop duster r/c - 6/2/2004 3:23:57 AM