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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/9/2007 4:36:25 AM   
rifraff



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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/11/2007 9:41:57 AM   
CAP232AC


 

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Status: offline 		Mind if I cut in? I now have one of these things. It'll be my third twin. I know it's probobly in the thread somewere, but were are you guys getting the spinners? They look quite scale.

Aaron

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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/11/2007 1:08:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		For Spinners you can try..Mecoa at www.mecoa.com/cb/spinners.htm

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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/11/2007 3:41:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		For the guys looking for a Mosquito to build from a plan, can I recommend the Ivan Pettigrew plan.

74" wingspan and electric powered with retracts.

Mine is fitted with a pair of brushless motors and is powered from 2 x 2100mAH 3S lipos packs which give 10 - 15 mins flying time.
She weighs 90oz which gives a wing loading of 15oz/sqft and makes the plane unable to tip stall without using washout.

Take offs are no problem from deep grass which goes almost up to the nacel / wing joint.
Handles really nicely.


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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/13/2007 2:06:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Had my first engine-out with my Mossie on Sat. It was actually "uneventful". I was zipping along in level flight when an engine died. I had enough speed and altitude that I wouldn't have noticed the engine out except for the sound. I even turned towards the dead engine (before I knew which one was dead), but I had it at idle at the time.


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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/16/2007 7:42:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		Anyone know where I can find a manual for this plane? I sort of "inherited" this plane without one. PDF would be nice.

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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/17/2007 4:07:05 AM   
rifraff



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Status: offline 		hey cap232ac here you go

http://www.quickworldwide.com/manuals/Mosquito_73.pdf

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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/18/2007 2:53:12 PM   
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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/20/2007 3:18:58 AM   
rifraff



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Status: offline 		heres the first video the first of many its not that good camera man didnt know how to use my video recorder


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrJk-dLDXXI

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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/23/2007 12:00:44 PM   
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well i maidened my mossy today and all i can say is wow she flew amazingly well, started the motors up had some isues with my gyro it made my the rudder twitch so i had to remove it,i started down the runway didnt have any ground handling issues so i throttled up as i reached three quarters throttle she was going pretty fast and all of a sudden she shot at a 40 degree angle from the ground,made me jump i leveled off increased speed and alltitude so i could start triming,it neded some down trim to make her fly level and she was very touchy on the elevator wich indicates to me a little tail heavy,thats the only trimming i did everything else was perfect.
when i had to land i tried the flaps and she balloned up on me, i have to mix in some down elevator with flaps no biggie,i lined her up throttled back and got her on a nice glide slope adjusting descent by using throttle and got her down on a three point landing,when i shut the motors off i realized i was shaking with exicetment,well enough chit chat check out the pics forgot my video cam this morning so all i have is stills


I hope this doesn't come across as offensive in anyway - but the anhedral on your model, to my mind, kinda ruins the look of the Mosquito. Why do ARF manufacturers do this?

I realise that this model is not scale but even still why do manufacturers of ARFs always insist on removing such obvious points about an aeroplane's character?

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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/24/2007 2:46:25 AM   
rifraff



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Status: offline 		jamieduff1981 dont worry about it, i did notice the enhedral but it dosnt bother me after all it is an ARF and they just mass produce them that way if i wanted it perfect i would have built a kit, but i dont have the time or the skills to start glueing sticks together haha, plus the guys at the field noticed it too and i told them it was an optical illusion and told them to get really close and they dont see it anymore haha




good luck and happy flying

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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/24/2007 9:57:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		I thought mine looked like I had Anhedral, but I put a ruler across the wing and it is straight across, with dihedral on the bottom surface. It is actually a bit of an optical illusion (at least on mine). That is not to say that the real Mosquito did not have a bit more Dihedral than this model.

I used P-51 spinners, and they look pretty good.




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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/30/2007 8:25:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK, almost done! So what's the "magic" C.G. number? I was going to go with 115mm like the book shows. Good starting point? Mine will need the battery moved to the back. I thought this thing would need nose weight for sure..

11.25 lbs with GMS .47's by the way... No time for a test flight before my clubs War Birds over Pueblo event. Just gona' have to do it Saturday morning.

Aaron

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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/30/2007 1:13:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'd say 117mm back, but at the FUSE, not at the outside of the pods as the book shows. I can't believe you will have to move the battery back, I would not recommend you fly it without double checking the CG. I put the battery in the nose (2000mah Nimh) and still had to use 8 oz. of weight with OS.46AX's.

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RE: DeHavilland Mosquito - 8/30/2007 1:55:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah, mine also has a tone of lead in the nose, in addition to a pair of battery packs.

Measure the CG at the fuse, then the given ~115mm is fine.


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