Hi Guys, I just finished my model and test flew it yesterday. Iam pretty impressed with it flight performance. The engine a Saito 182 twin was running rich on an 8x16 was a bit down on power. It has onboard glo,sierra landing gear,Keleo exhaust C/W smoke coil. The paint job is from the latest Cessna brochure,painted on over the film. I had to use a pound of lead in the nose for balance even though I have three battery packs up there too. This appears to be worth the wait to build and fly. I appreciate all the news and reviews I have read over the months at this form. Thanks, Rob
Oh, I almost forgot my best pal/Photographer Al "Astro" Eastman for the fly by picture !
Nice job Rob;Hard to figure why you needed a pound of weight,mine only needed 8 oz and its running a OS160 twin with onboard glow and Sierra gear.Maybe the extra paint on the tail?..Steve.
Hi Steve, Thanks for the comments,I actually only need 12oz but added the extra just in case. There is alot of gear in the tail,I had to modify the linkage on the rudder to make it work properly. I have 4400mah "D"cell,6x1950 mah for smoke pump and a 1800mah for the reciever up front too and still the extra,hard to figure. With your OS 160 what prop are you turning at what sort of rpm? How do you loke it's power? Iam turning the 3 blade 8x16 at 8,000. Were flying off a 300ft. grass runway.
I'm using an 18x6 Dynathrust and its turning around 7500? I kinda forget now..anyways its veryscalelike power,not overpowered at all.We have 350" of grass strip.I'm happy with my setup.....
Nice paint job Gunny !Is it taken off a real Cessna 182 that you saw? What are the two pipes coming out of the cowl? Intake/exhaust? The motor fit in nice. Happy Landings, Rob
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Thanks guys,
It has a 17 x 10 wood prop and at 20 lbs the power is very scale like, but not too overly powerfull. The black pipe is the exhaust and the chrome one is actually the spark plug cap. I think I'm going to have to add just a tad of nose weight (still seems a little pitch sensitive on flare)
Thanks,
Gunny
Oh Yeah, I copied the color patterns from a cessna in England but changed the actual colors.
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Hello, I´m from Portugal and I would like contribute to this forum with this fotos of my cessna 182 s with Saito 182 Twin. It´s a replica off cessna 182 S Millennium Edition. Do you have 3 view drawings for cessna 182S?
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Hi Gary. The millennium scheme was made by a friend that works in advertising and have a ploter. I give them the lateral photo of a real Cessna, he copy and enlarge the scheme acordind with dimentions of my model. I have the lateral view of cessna 182T, However I need the 3 views in order to participate in Portugal championship. I March I contact Cessna. Until now no answer. Sorry my English but I´m from Portugal
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Joaopestanas I don't think Cessna will respond to you. Your next best choice would be to to go www.airliners.net and do a search on Cessna 182. They give lots of photos of 182's .......several milleniums and other T's and S's. You can get near front-ons and almost overthead flyings, but no top-down shots....... .
Don't know if you could find a small plastic model of a modern Cessna 182 to use as documentation, but that is accepted as a 3 view sometimes.
Since you used N398ME as your subject's number you could find the owner in our FAA registry (google search on "N398ME" and write requesting photos of the actual plane. Good luck there, as you are at the mercy of the owner.
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and write requesting photos of the actual plane. Good luck there, as you are at the mercy of the owner.