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Why are Multiplex users so darned evangelical about it? - 2/21/2003 6:01:23 AM   
Kris^


 

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Status: offline 		T-bolt. . someday. . WAY off far in the future . when the IMAC bug has run its course. . I want to do a 1/3 scale jug, in the Robert S. Johson color scheme. NO. . I don't want to simulate the over 600 7.62mm and 15 20mm holes that his Thunderbolt suffered in a mission early in its combat history. He made it back!!! no hydraulics, no flaps, no gauges, flat tires on the landing gear, barely able to see because his eyes were swollen almost shut by hydraulic fluid, unable to get out of the plane because a 20mm shell had butchered the turtle deck so that the canopy would not open. The only undamaged parts of the plane were the engine and guns.

I guess it pays to keep the important stuff intact in air Combat.

On a side note. . they are STILL making R2800 engines to this day!! Lots of big radial engines planes still need them, and are, in fact, designed around them.

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Why are Multiplex users so darned evangelical about it? - 2/21/2003 6:35:10 AM   
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Status: online 		I think the 2800 has gone the way of the R985 in that they are still being used, but new engines are not being produced. There is just an inventory of parts out there constantly being refurbished.


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hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm - 2/21/2003 6:54:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		There is an amphibious Water Tanker for fighting forest fires, made in Canada, that uses the R2800, they are being built as of today. Also, many older aircraft still use the engine,meanign a steady supply of rebuilt engines or parts for them shoudl be available.

Truly one of the great aircraft engines of all time.

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Why are Multiplex users so darned evangelical about it? - 2/21/2003 7:14:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ryan:

About 10 years ago I bought a "Zero-timed" R-985 for a Howard restoration, cost $30K, With the trade of the run-out engine taken from the plane.

And I'm sure there are a lot more '985s running now than R-2800 engines, if only because you have to own an oil well to supply the fuel for the '2800. And the '2800 was almost exclusively a military engine - F5F, F6F, F7F, F8F, F4U, P-47, and so forth. While there probably were more, I don't know of any transport other than the C-46 that used the R-2800.

Just checked, the R-2800 was in production until 1960, with a little more than 125,000 built. Check this URL:
http://www.pratt-whitney.com/classicengines/html/CE_r2800.html
Itis P&W's R-2800 page, and there were a LOT of transports that used it.

This is the R-985 page, not quite 40,000 were made, last production was 1953.
http://www.pratt-whitney.com/classicengines/html/CE_r985.html

So even thought there were three times as many '2800 engines built as there were '985s, the R-985 engines didn't get lost iin combat. AndI think there are a lot more R-985s still running than R-2800s

If I have duplicated myself in here I'm sorry, been back and forth into many references while composing this epistle.

Fly with an engine, round.
. Not round? Stay aground.

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Why are Multiplex users so darned evangelical about it? - 2/21/2003 7:23:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		heh worx for me. . thanks for the info and effort

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Robert Johnson's Jug - 2/21/2003 9:43:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		Kris:
Wow - a 1/3rd scale jug. Huge!!!
When you are ready to go, there are a bunch of scale guys who specialise in huge fighters. Jeff Quesenberry for one. He is building a 13 foot F4u4 corsair.
He goes by F4u5. Go to http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/tm.asp?m=316975
to take a look at this monster.
You are right about Johnson's flight all shot up. Don Blakesley the famouse CO of the 4th FG had a similar experience with his first combat mission in the Jug.

My first Jug was from Johnson's 56 FG. Mine was called "Pistol Packin Mama"
It was a Dennis Bryant plan with a OS 90 in it. I think I built it about 1979.
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Big Jug - 2/21/2003 10:14:24 AM   
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Attached is a picture of my caller and much better half Bonnie with a friend of ours 102 inch P-47. This plane is awsome in the air with a 3W200CC engine. This one is 1/5th so you can only imagine how big a 1/3 Jug would be. By the way, this is painted in Robert Johnsons paint scheme.
Brian

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Why are Multiplex users so darned evangelical about it? - 2/21/2003 2:35:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		great putdown lf, you could get a job at fox.

how many of the ppl bagging multiplex have actually owned one,(since the advent of ic's)lol,lf.

must admit jugs are the best looking warbird.

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Why are Multiplex users so darned evangelical about it? - 2/22/2003 2:51:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		Both of mine were IC models. NOT microprocessor however.I was only 12 when I bought Multiplex ,it was my first new radio . Until then everything was inherited from my dad and brothers. Mostly old Kraft and ProLine. We live very close to Canada and there are many occasions to see the new Multiplex stuff. Haven't seen any reason to switch yet .if they don't offer 50 MHz gear it's unlikely I'll be a customer in the near future. A good solid radio could interest me none the less.


Some folks are happy with it and I've seen just about as many neutrals and negatives. About the same as anybody elses radios.
At least from what Ive seen.

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Re: hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm - 2/23/2003 3:23:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kris^
There is an amphibious Water Tanker for fighting forest fires, made in Canada, that uses the R2800, they are being built as of today. Also, many older aircraft still use the engine,meanign a steady supply of rebuilt engines or parts for them shoudl be available.

Truly one of the great aircraft engines of all time. [/QUOTE]

Kris, a bit of correction on the Canadair water bomber, they are no longer produced with these engines. They are all using Turbo props nowadays. The old Canadair 215 was introduced in the 1960, they have since evolved some years ago with the 415 version with Pratt&Whitney Turbo Props.

< Message edited by aerografixs -- Feb 22 2003 10:31PM >

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Why are Multiplex users so darned evangelical about it? - 2/23/2003 4:51:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		Let's see, T-bolt. . the P47-N had a span of about 41.5 feet .. making a 1/3 scale just a smidge under 14 feet in span,, or about 172"

I guess a C would be in the 156-160 range.

Great looking caller, and nice plane, too

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Why are Multiplex users so darned evangelical about it? - 2/25/2003 6:02:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		T'bolt ,you cradle robber

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Cradle robber/LF - 2/25/2003 10:15:09 AM   
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Attached is a picture of our F4U-4 Corsair with your initials on it. I have another photo of it in my gallery. It is from the Brian Taylor plan with a Webra Bully 35CC on glow , Airtronics radio and 82 inch wing.

Yep the woman is my OL, Bonnie. Believe it or not, she is a remarkable 52 years old. She was a sergeant in the Army in 1968. My buddy, Frank Tiano, described her as the "best broad on the planet."
Lucky for me she loves scale warbirds, motorcycles, dancing, rockclimbing and the blues. Easy on the eyes too!!!

She owns the planes and lets me flyum. Works for me.
She doesn't fly, but she fuels um up, fills the retracts with air and cleans them after each flight. She calls for me at contest too!! I have learned to listen to her good judgment or I would fly til the wings fell off.

How is the weather in Michigan? It is a balmy 3 degrees in Denver.
Brian





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52 years since the cradle - 2/25/2003 10:48:12 AM   
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Bonnie with her plane Bonnie

A Ziroli 92 in TBolt.
I know this is off the subject, what ever that was seven pages ago.
Brian

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