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Old 08-30-2015, 08:43 AM
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I Have a new one that I picked up from Charles before they stop selling parts if you need it? Let me know. I have a few other parts for the P38 also. Thanks Donzie
Old 12-29-2015, 04:53 PM
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Been dead here lately so I'm going to try to get things going again. I have been making a little progress on my P-38 getting bits and pieces done so here are some pics.

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Old 12-29-2015, 05:04 PM
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sorry the pictures are not in any kind of order.

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Old 12-29-2015, 05:23 PM
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Nice job on the yoke, what did you use to make the brown grips on it?

What engine is that?
Old 12-29-2015, 07:30 PM
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Nice job on all of it! VERY nice indeed. You really owe it to your fellow P-38 enthusiasts to posts lots of pictures .You machining all your own parts?
Old 12-29-2015, 10:00 PM
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The handles on the yokes are made from bass wood, and the engines are 3W150 inlines. I'll try to post some more pics as I make more progress. trying to get My CNC lathe up and running so I can make some spinner and gear parts. to large for my small manual lathe. Hoping to get to the point in a few weeks were I can run the engines up and test out the exhaust system.
Old 12-29-2015, 10:16 PM
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Here are some videos of me testing the servo hidden linkage operation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6zOC_FqfAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyUMQ-i7cZM Machining the wheels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncnb0jaEvF0 wheel cover first test piece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqeK-Ls8pmE Brake leak test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HqeeqwEA34
Old 12-30-2015, 06:37 PM
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Very nice, checked out some of your other videos, love the turbo superchargers!
Old 12-31-2015, 09:34 AM
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Agreed, exceptionally fine scale detail work.
Old 12-31-2015, 02:19 PM
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What P38 Plans are you working off of or is this scratch built?
Old 01-02-2016, 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by pilotbum
What P38 Plans are you working off of or is this scratch built?
This is based on the Ziroli plans that are blown-up with a few mods where needed.
Old 01-02-2016, 08:00 PM
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PJ38
how far are you from Gilbert and what club do you belong to?

Larry
Old 01-05-2016, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by lkahn4
PJ38
how far are you from Gilbert and what club do you belong to?

Larry
I'm about 47 miles from Gilbert, I live in Peoria. I'm a member of the Sun valley fliers club.
Old 01-06-2016, 05:25 AM
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Very cool, I just joined the Az model aviators. Hope I get to meet you in the near future, I'm going to try and hook up with Chad this Sunday depending on the wife.
Old 01-06-2016, 07:22 AM
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Hopefullly you can make it out to our winter warbirds event 15-17 Jan
Old 01-06-2016, 03:35 PM
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Here's something for the "brotherhood" to enjoy.
Picked this up for less than I could assemble the individual parts for.
It's a Legend Models '38 with 2x RCGF 15CC gas two strokes. Not my choice of engine but since they were already installed, what the heck. Test flight was performed with 3 blade master airscrew 14x7 props.
I was not comfortable with the engines on my first flight and forced a landing situation in which I got too slow at 2 foot off the ground and ended up having to do some repairs to the right wing and left boom.
The following images and video are from the flights performed after the repair work.
The engines are gaining my confidence and the 4th flight last Sunday was performed with APC 14x8 two blades and the overall performance was MUCH improved.
The plane accelerates faster and flies with a higher top speed than seen in the video.
I am slowly changing out the servos, as the original builder opted for hobby king servos that seem a bit sketchy in their operation.
https://youtu.be/tBwecZoDO6k
https://picasaweb.google.com/1160310...December312015
https://youtu.be/QUWvm11d0HE
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Old 01-11-2016, 05:22 PM
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Mike,
Just came back from the AMA Convention in Ontario, Ca. with a G&P 88" P-38 partially built for $40.00!....It's all there!
My partner just finished a Robart P-38 for a customer and we couldn't believe our luck.....This one will be electric to save weight..........
Frank
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Old 01-17-2016, 11:18 AM
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Please sign me up for the Brotherhood. I'm finishing up a 1/5th scale Ziroli, twin DA-50s, all metal covering. Photos of final build forthcoming.

Peter Young/San Pedro CA
Old 01-18-2016, 10:40 AM
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Mike - pls add me to the P-38 Lightning Brotherhood. I'm finishing up a Ziroli P-38 with
DA-50s, am presently sifting through the blog for knowledge and insight, lots there!

Peter Young
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Old 01-19-2016, 08:01 AM
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Look forward to those pics
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hey guys wondering if theres any decent scale plans out there? I want to do a built up 1/4 scale P-38J-25-LO Lightning I starting drawing up my own plans but would be nice if there was already a decent set of P-38 plans out there. I hate Zirolis its so non scale its silly
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Ok guys i come across this site and spent the 50 bucks to join for a year. awesome site not just the P-38 but other planes too but there are over 22k of factory drawings from microfilm on this site just for the P-38 but its like 50 bucks for a year which is cheap considering they have factory drawings for like 10 is american air corps fighters then theres the bombers and hughes aircraft etc http://aircorpslibrary.com/
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Originally Posted by ProfLooney
Ok guys i come across this site and spent the 50 bucks to join for a year. awesome site not just the P-38 but other planes too but there are over 22k of factory drawings from microfilm on this site just for the P-38 but its like 50 bucks for a year which is cheap considering they have factory drawings for like 10 is american air corps fighters then theres the bombers and hughes aircraft etc http://aircorpslibrary.com/
Great find
Thank you
Old 01-24-2016, 08:46 PM
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Welcome guys!
Please feel free to post all the pix and videos you want.

Great looking VQ Tommy_gun

Can't beat $40 for a P-38 Jazzdrmr!

Aeroastro congrats on finishing up a Ziroli build.

ProfLooney, I too want to build a Ziroli size plane, but want to tweek it to look more scale. My plan is to build a plug from foam, glass it, detail it, and make molds. The Yellow P-38 is about as big as I can get in and out of my basement by myself. A Ziroli will need to come apart to stay manageable (for me). Thinking glass booms and gondola, with (maybe) foam core wings and stab that all "plug In". Not sure, in the early thinking about it stage, but I know I like glass and foam planes

There seems to be a bunch of cutaway drawings, some pretty good scale drawings with stations and former shapes, and a few plans. Honestly, you can't bet the factory drawings if you want to get it right. Nice fine!
I hope you will keep us posted on your progress, and if that site has the views RCs need.

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Old 01-24-2016, 09:14 PM
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there are 22k drawings for the P-38 and the structural maint has all the views we need I am going through it and pulling pics off it. when I get them all from there i will zip up a file. mine will be a 1/4 scale but wont be hard to scale down and I will be doing a J-LO model with the dive flaps etc.here is where min is at now but will prob redo the wing once i find out what the proper washout etc sb. I think on this i used the normal ratio of zero the tip out from the incidence which if I remember is around 3 1/2 deg its been over a year since i worked on it wanting to find factoryt drawings. on the drawings it shows the pod at parellell to horizontal plane and the booms at a negative incidence to it just have to study them later after I get everything
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