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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from R... - 10/25/2007 2:48:06 PM   
travis


 

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From: Boyle, MS, USA
Status: offline 		Glad to see fellow modelers from Georgia have a pasion for ag planes. Let me introduce myself; My name is Travis and I cohabitate in the heart of the Mississippi Delta-that's right, Cotton and Rice Country. My beginings were on a family farm where the first agplanes were 'butchered Cubs' then the Pawnee appeared. Later Cessna came up with the idea of the AG WAGON then later the AG TRUCK. I have flagged quite a few times putting out fertilize on wheat and rice or spray on cotton. Later with improvements came the old AG CATS with their radials along with the SNOWS and THRUSHES. Now everybody has gone to turbines since the gas flowa for 1200 hp radials was around 90 gallons per hour and turbines burn cheaper fuel at 60-70 gph. Enough history on ag planes.
I had a Cessna 188 AgWagon by Great Planes a while back and it flew great with a 46 on the nose. Even went to the trouble of scratch building a fertilize spreader (non-fuctional) for it. Got crazy and sold it. The AG WAGON will be a great plane to customize as there are several here that I can use as examples. Orange, red, green, yellow were pretty much the standard colors and with the introduction of the AG TRUCK came a red, white and blue paint combination. Most have the spinners the same color as the trim with a few pilots giving in to the chrome spinners. OK, R.C. Guys, I see the Decatholon and it is a winner, SO......LETS GET THE AG WAGON UP AND FLYING.....Travis in Miss. Delta

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from R... - 10/25/2007 3:33:20 PM   
outacontrol41


 

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From: Girdletree, MD, USA
Status: offline 		Welcome to the thread, Travis, glad to hear you're into this stuff, too. I think the Agwagon you're speaking of from Great Planes is actually a Kyosho brand model carried for a while by Tower Hobbies. I know because I still have mine after over 500 flights. I bought it around 2000 and have flown it since. Good history lesson about the agplanes you mentioned. I'm an old traditionalist so I don't care to much for the turbine engines...I've always seen them with radials...I love the sound they produce when they go by.
BTW...I had a spraybar system (nonfuntional) on my Kyosho Agwagon when it first took to the air. After so many flights and a few deadsticks into the cornfiels around here they finaly came off.
Haven't heard anything from RC Guys lately or anyone else that has...but the latest up to the minute news pops up here. Subscribe to this thread and wait in the wings with us and put some $$$ aside, you'll need a little in DEcember to get you dusting!

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from ... - 10/25/2007 6:04:57 PM   
travis


 

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From: Boyle, MS, USA
Status: offline 		Hey Outacontrol41,
Thanks for the invite to join in. You were right, it was a Kyosho ARF that I put together and powered it with a Tiger Shark 46. Later sold it minus engine and a fellow modeler put a K & B 65 in the nose with a three bladed prop. Boy did it look good and would fly at less than 1/2 throttle and not have to put in any extra power to pull up and turn-really scale. This pilot was a full time ag pilot and the paint scheme was really close to the ones that his father flew a few years ago. I recently built my nephew a turbine Airtractor out of a Sig Astro Hog. It is hanging up in his bedroom as a present. See all later...Travis in Miss. Delta..

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from ... - 10/25/2007 11:37:06 PM   
jantrit


 

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From: london, UNITED KINGDOM
Status: offline 		I have been a big fan of the ag wagon since I saw it in the Kyosho catalouge a while back. I am wondering if when ready, it would be possible to have one shipped to the uk, and how much that would cost?

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from ... - 10/26/2007 1:39:02 AM   
tmackel



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From: Simi Valley, CA, USA
Status: offline 		This picture was in the paper this morning. GO AGGIE!!!!! Actually that's an Air Tractor.

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from ... - 10/26/2007 2:41:05 AM   
fire_paramedic


 

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From: Ludowici, GA, USA
Status: offline 		Wow i want that job, i think i would do it for free. At least til i had to start paying bills again which would be next month. lol....

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from ... - 10/29/2007 2:51:40 AM   
retransit



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From: DeBary, FL, USA
Status: offline 		Here's an old Kyosho kit from the 80's that I built. I finished it two years ago and subsequently had an earth incursion. Repairable. powered by a Saito .45 4-stroke.

Bob

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from ... - 10/29/2007 6:11:01 AM   
outacontrol41


 

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Status: offline 		Very nice. One of the better looking Kyosho Agwagons I've seen. Mine still looks more scale than yours, though. Ever see a real one after a few decades of hard work? Worn out looking and dirty and gritty....yup. That's mine. Actually, my Agwagon looks like it's gonna fall apart if I keep flying it. I guess it's time for it's 100 hour service detail. No, really, I'm not kidding!

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from ... - 10/29/2007 1:39:35 PM   
fire_paramedic


 

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From: Ludowici, GA, USA
Status: offline 		Anybody know if a zenoah G38 would be a good engine for the new agwagon from rcguys?

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from ... - 10/29/2007 3:00:52 PM   
retransit



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Status: offline 		My flying buddy said it looked too clean to be an ag plane.

Bob

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from ... - 11/6/2007 5:52:16 PM   
roknhs


 

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From: Tick Fever, ID, USA
Status: offline 		Somebody better get a cup and start passing it around so we can send Dan enough money to get a set of big snow skis to fit that Ag Wagon...............I'm afraid winter is gonna catch him before he gets this second one wrung out.

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from ... - 11/15/2007 3:48:51 AM   
roknhs


 

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From: Tick Fever, ID, USA
Status: offline 		Had an E-Mail from Dan the other day...........said he's waiting on the factory to send him some pics and ship him another airframe to test............and he said don't worry about snow and incliment weather getting in the way of a test flight.....won't happen......

I think he's got his passport warmed up for a trip South to do the final test flights.......wonder if he'll leave his golf clubs at home???????? Let see.......the boys down in Harlingen, Tx have a really nice field at Rio Hondo........and its easy driving from South Padre Island............about now I'd guess the Gulf is a pale green and it's probably in the low 80's........................nice golf course at Laguna Vista.......you have to drive right by it on the way from SPI to Rio Hondo.

Hey, Dan............need any help with that test flyin????????

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from ... - 11/22/2007 12:51:21 AM   
roknhs


 

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From: Tick Fever, ID, USA
Status: offline 		Progress...............more dihedral and still working on the canopy........but.........progress

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RE: 1/4 Scale AG WAGON ARF next from ... - 11/22/2007 12:54:36 AM