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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 10/29/2005 2:44:20 AM   
corvett


 

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From: oregon city, OR, USA
Status: offline 		No problem at all with ballance using the os 46FX. I do not have any skids under the airplane at all. The center of the head is exactly even with the bottom of the cowl and the head sticks down about 1/16" on the outside edges. Of course the glow plug sticks down a bit, but so far no problem since I only land on grass. I also have to pick out a little grass around the head. I have the engine mounted as close to the firewall as possible. I have also installed a larger tank. The battery is mounted under the tank, the receiver is directly behind the tank. I am using a standard hitec servo for elevator, a hitec HS81 for throtle, and two hitec HS81MG for ailerons. It has beeen some time since I built this model I don't remember if I needed to add weight in the rear or not. I dont't think so. If you need to add weight in the rear, try to put it in the tail cone as it will take less weight the farther back you put it. I'm sure you probably know that, but I tend to ramble onnnnnnn last, I am running an APC 9/8 for a prop on 15% fuel love this plane. Oh yea anyone put a 46FX in the little mustang yet?

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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/6/2005 6:45:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		Has anyone mounted a Saito 30 on the Combat Corsair? What mount did you use?

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blacksheep

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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/6/2005 11:50:25 PM   
hy flyr


 

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From: Rawlins, WY, USA
Status: offline 		I put my Mustang together this weekend and used .25fx. With the battery installed toward the rear, it's still way nose heavy. Anybody else have this problem?

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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/9/2005 12:11:50 PM   
dkreitz


 

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From: Oviedo, FL, USA
Status: offline 		Yes. On mine with the 32SX, I moved the tank back over the CG, put a small 6v, AAA pack aft of the wing, and still needed 1.5 oz at the tail to balance it.

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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/10/2005 4:56:05 PM   
irwina


 

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From: Calgary, AB, CANADA
Status: offline 		What prop are you using and what elevation are you flying at. I've got the kit and will be flying at 3400' elevation.

Thanks

Art.

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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/10/2005 5:25:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Has anyone seen the Model Airplane news review of the Mustang and corsair? The expert reviewer got the vertical stablizer of the Corsair intalled backwards.

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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/10/2005 7:24:53 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: bassman

Has anyone seen the Model Airplane news review of the Mustang and corsair? The expert reviewer got the vertical stablizer of the Corsair intalled backwards.



Expert!!! funny!

I seen that too. It looks stupid, you would think he would have questioned it...





Whats with all the cap screws around the cowl for? Did he install that wrong too? The way GP has the cowl attached to the firewall is slick, why would he have screws holding it on?

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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/12/2005 10:53:12 PM   
acep51



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Status: offline 		I just received my yesterday and want to perform some modifications.Can anyone tell me where I can purchase chinakote/monekote corsair blue that matches what is already on this bird?Thank you.

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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/15/2005 6:17:10 PM   
babenson


 

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Status: offline 		If anyone has a crashed i.e. unflyable (GP) Combat Corsair, I will buy the firewall and cowl....name a price! Within reason...
-B

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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/15/2005 6:24:40 PM   
babenson


 

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ORIGINAL: ARF Guy

Yep! Bought the Corsair, added rudder and landing gear and have a great flying "sport" warbird. Flies with a Magnum .30 4 stroke, sounds great uses no fuel. Used a caster tail wheel and it makes for some comical taxiing in wind!


Hey ARF GUY
How did you add landing gear? I want to do this to mine, but I am not sure where to begin.
Any help appreciated
-B

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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/15/2005 8:43:18 PM   
acep51



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Status: offline 		I'm in the process of installing a pair of Sring Air 600 series retracts. You can check them out at the link below.

http://www.retracts.com/retracts.htm


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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/16/2005 1:44:41 PM   
ARF Guy


 

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From: Prescott, AZ, USA
Status: offline 		Glad you asked Babenson. I opened the wings just beyond the gull joint and boxed the area from leading edge to spar and rib to rib with lite ply to mount hardwood gear blocks to. I downloaded a 3-view drawing off the Internet and approximated the gear length, bent 1/8th wire to an appropriate shape and mounted 2 1/2" wheels. Then I glued the skins back in place and patched with some gray Monokote (which ISN'T what the plane is covered with. The rudder is yellow on my plane because when I took the wrinkles out with the Monokote setting it melted the factory covering right off and Monocote Blue doesn't match). Tail wheel is a caster since the rudder is not easily accessed from below. I cut and installed a working rudder and servo using the existing servo tray location, provided push rod and already installed guide. Taxiing can be a bit comical with a little wind but it tracks straight and takes off very scale-like. Landings are a piece of cake and my field is in Prescott AZ at 5500'.

This isn't a difficult task. I quit "building" about 30 years ago and sure as heck am NOT a master builder. The plane as I built it and where I fly performs very scale-like. It has a Magnum .30 4 stroke in it mounted inverted and it flys great. It doesn't fly at 2000 scale mph and I'm not a combat pilot, I just wanted a scale-looking warbird that didn't fall out of the sky if you dared slow down. It flys like a good .40 sized sport plane, hardly uses any fuel and makes real pretty wheel landings.

I bought the Mustang and have an old OS .25 FSR for it but the holidays and life are chipping into my model assembling time right now. It uses one less servo but that smaller, tapered wing might make it a bit more challenging.

Oh and one other thing. I was born with bad eyes and as I extend my string of birthdays, they don't get much better so I fly low and close and don't even THINK of flying it on a gray, clowdy day!

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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/18/2005 4:08:12 PM   
topspeed


 

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Status: offline 		Is 600 series good enuf for a 1/12 scale corsair ?

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RE: Great Planes Combat Corsair and Mustang - 11/18/2005 5:43:32 PM   
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