Duplicator41

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Very nice.....

Cheers

Prekin

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Thank you Duplicator, but now I´am very angry with the retract. Two flights- two failures.

Prekin

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I glued new front parts of the ribs and new retract mounting. This mounting is almost done. The sheeting of the leading edge I strutted with piece of hard paper and I put a piece of balsa infront of the L.E.

OldScaleGuy

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Prekin, congratulations! The Dauntless looks great in flight. Sorry to see the retract problems, hopefully you have that fixed now and will have many successful flights in the future.

glazier808

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+1...
looks great!

casey

Prekin

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Thank you Steve and I hope so, I´ll have many successful flights and happy landings. Now it looks like I could fly my Dauntless this weekend.

Casey, I´m happy, you like my Dauntless.

Prekin

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Repairing works are almost done. Last morning I made edge for the sheeting connecting and before some minutes I glued sheet of balsa.

Prekin

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Today I´ve done the sheeting of leading edge and tomorrow I´ll cover it by a covering film.

oriole

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Prekin,

Make sure you coat the landing gear mounts and all the nooks and crannys around the mounts with 30 Min. Epoxy. I had the same issue you had.

Oriole

Prekin

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Oriole, thank you for your advice. The landing gear mounts seemed too fragile, so I coat with CA glue, but in my case it was problem of the metal parts. Now I´m wiser and would check thi retract before each take-off.

Prekin

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Repair is finally done. I´m glad, that I can fly my Dauntless this weekend. Painting and wear out I´ll do after this fyling season.

OldScaleGuy

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Looks good Prekin. Please let us know how the flights go for you.

Prekin

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Finally I passed some flying action without any accident or crash. This warbird flies very nice, and during a take-off behaves as real bomber very laaaazy move up, but I didnd´t roll out with full of power. My Dauntless is a little bit heavy, so during the approach he lose the speed very slowly, so landing is long. For the next flights I want to set flaps and aerodynamic brakes. But before it I have to buy new receiver, because I don´t have any free channel in my one.

OldScaleGuy

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Congratulations Prekin! It looks great in the air. Nice airfield too.

Prekin

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Thank you Steve, I´m looking forward to some shots with a scale rear gunner.

Prekin

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Hi all, I´m going to make a scale rear gunner. Does anybody have some picture of gunner´s combat dress? I´m not sure, that they had the same combat dresses as pilots.

Claydoc

Hi Mate,


What did u set your COG at?

I read some where the 125mm from the book is incorrect.

Thxs

Regs Chris

Prekin

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Original plan says, that you have to set COG 125 mm from leading edge of the outer part of the central part of wing. I set COG to 110 mm.

Prekin

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Here are shots, where you can see, where I set COG.

eskiserkan

Prekin, your SBD looks really nice. I hope i will finish mine soon. How about the engine you have on the model ? I am going to put FS-a155 4 stroke.

Prekin

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Thank you eskiserhan for the kind words. I have JC 28 EVO in my Dauntless. I wanted some smaller and less powerful engine, for ex. some 23 up to 25 cc engine. I wasn´t able to buy some another engine with similar dimensions. Now I know, there are some guys who have some 20 cc engines 1800 mm wingspan warbirds.

bcrc

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Does the ESM Dauntless have any open structure on the wings or stabilizer? Or is it all sheeted?
Thank you.

oriole

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Sheeted

Prekin

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Yes it is all balsa sheeted, but only a small part of the wing is without balsa sheets.

oriole

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Prekin,

It's all sheeted unless you are referring to the dive breaks which have the scale perforated holes.

Oriole