orvel
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Willey, I was reading your threads, if I had read them before you flew the maiden I would have told you not to worry about your Stang weighing 26 lbs. in fact I'd say that's not bad at all. The one I lost was a Top Flite 1/5 also which I had detailed to the hilt, full cockpit, sequencing doors, you name it. She came in at 28.5 lbs. dry and I had a 24 oz tank. I flew her with a Quqdra 52 and I think she didn't use more than 50 ft. of runway on the maiden and flew like a dream. In case your interested, her demise was caused on the second season that I had her by a stock $7.00 switch harness that most likely couldn't take the vibration and shorted out on me in-flight. It was my first warbird, and I was too naive (but also nobody told me) to realize that you need heavy duty stuff on a heavy warbird. Anyway, needless to say my P-47 has dual heavy duty switch harnesses and dual batteries which are part of a battery back-up system. Any failure in one, the other immediately takes over. Do try to make it next year, our event is getting better and better every year and we get people from all over the country.
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