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Joined: 7/11/2002 From: ames,
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I promise not to hijack your thread, just bring a little camaraderie and add a couple of shots of our progress on the Wingspan 1/9 scale. Frank's building, I'm paying. He is a Top Gun level builder with several B-17's in his resume already. I am always shocked by how much progress he's made every weekend when I come by with a camera. Still, anticipated maiden flight day is not till Spring '09. He enlarged the rudder a little to be what he considers scale and set back the firewalls some from plan specs to allow for good prop position on the Saito 125's we're installing.
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Joined: 6/19/2004 From: saginaw,
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my van has fold down seats. i can fit a fully assembles gp tiger moth in her so I already measured. You ought to see the 1/6 scale makes mine look little but i dont have the money for that. The hardest part is you must be able to read plans as there are no instructions, what puzzles me is mike shows the servos in the stabs and fin but that would mean control horns(yuk) he also has a servo plate in the stab area inside the plane. I think he tried to satisfy both types of builders
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Joined: 8/17/2002 From: n. canton,
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Sounds like you have a plan for transport. I saw the link on the 1/6 scale and checked it out. What a beauty. I saw a 17' wing span B-17 fly at the Byron show in the early 90s (their B-29 had crashed the year before). It had (4) 4.2 Sacks engines I think, and a pilot and co-pilot both with transmitters. It was awesome. Yours will be impressive in it's own right. I am going to send you a link to some internal actuators. Very cool and very scale like.
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Joined: 6/19/2004 From: saginaw,
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thats what i was looking for the aileron thank you. ill use old fashioned torque rods on rudder and elev. each elev will have its own high torque servo . Reports are 90 oz will be enough but im going higher for saftey. Also ill run two jr 6v 3000mah packs parallel for power as this monster will take a lot of servosat least 15-20 servos
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Joined: 6/19/2004 From: saginaw,
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more sheeting done on both sides. pics tomorrow im tired. Taught all day and sheeted all night so im watching futureweapons and looking at my wifes computer art. well im really happy i make a left hand piece and reverse it and trace and it fits perfect. My fuse is straight and true. i need to lock the l side up tonight and shell be good. no school friday so lots of progress this weekend. guns and turret motors also on the way
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Joined: 6/19/2004 From: saginaw,
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heres the guns. OMG they are perfect resin replicas and the turret motors. motors will run on 2 aa batts and use a servo to reverse the polarity so the turrets rotate. im not elevating guns having the turrets rotate via radio is enough for me. again kudos to mike and his company he puts all others to shame
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Joined: 6/19/2004 From: saginaw,
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4 day weekend so watch for lots of progress. pic of the crew too. the cat is capt fred as they are smarter than dogs LOL. second pic is co pilot gretz. Holding fred was the group leader maj. general debbie. the one who lets me do this uptairs! third pic ha grets and lt sheridan as top turret gunner/ engineer. . the dogs are enlisted crew
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