mrrandyman

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Hey guys I need some help.
Does anyone have some scale documentation showing the sizes of the trim tabs and such. I want to install all these things but I can't find a reference to go from to be somewhat accurate.. I have a 1/48 model but nothing seems to add up properly. I take 48 and divide that by 5.75 and get 8.3475 but it doesn't seem to work.What am I doing wrong?

Thank you,
Randy

mrrandyman

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Good luck on the Maiden. Looking forward to some good video.

Randy

BobH

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Why are you dividing 48 by anything? Multiply 48X12 that will give you the full scale inches. Then multiply that by the scale factor of your plane. That will give you the scale inches. Or you can just take a percentage of the trim tabs vs the 1:48 model and multiply that by your planes scale inches.

rt3232

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Or if you not planning on supper scale just make it look right

You might try Corsairjocks thread on 1/8 scale T/F birds, there also a coupla of more threads that might help but will have to go to my notes to find will try and get back tommarow

Cheers Bob T

rt3232

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Nick

Good luck with the maiden

Cheers Bob T

mrrandyman

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Well,I thought that was how it was done. I have a 1:48 scale model and a 1:5.75 Topflite kit so I wanted to convert the measurements form the Tamiya kit to get my placement of the various lines and such on the Topflite kit.Thank you for your input.
Math was never my strong point and I'm not embarassed to say so either.

Randy

Chad Veich

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Randy,

Your scale factor of 8.3475 should be right according to my math. Any dimension on the 1:48 scale model multiplied by 8.3475 should give you the dimension for the 1:5.75 model.

Chad Veich

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Sorry Bob but what does 48X12 (576 by the way) tell us about the full size Corsair? Any dimension on the 1:48 model multiplied by 48 will give you said dimension on the full size airplane. Then he could divide by 5.75 to get where he wants to go. However, it's simpler just to multiply any dimension on the 1:48 scale model by the scale factor of 8.3475 (48 divided by 5.75) to get the same result.

mrrandyman

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Ok Chad, Thank you.

Randy

frisconick

Hi guys,

Did not do the maiden today. Too many little things to still re-check. Ran the engine again with the cowl off and nothing shook loose this time. Will run it again with the cowl to make sure the mounting is solid. Double check the throws, sub trim, flap linkage, hope for good weather Saturday, and say a prayer....

Here are a few shots from the drive way...

Thanks for all your help.

frisconick

Not sure what happened to the images in that last post. Maybe too many?? I'll try 3 here....

frisconick

Two more....

DaddySam

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Nick,
Good luck with the maiden, and good for you to not be rushed into it. I'm still going to check CG with my pilot figure, and hopefully get some more stick time before I try mine. Please do post vid. Your plane looks great!
Sam

Fly2XS

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Nick,
That is the greatest looking pilot figure. What is it and where did you get it?
Scott

frisconick

Thanks. The pilot is from Aces of Iron. They come unpainted. Greg Pierson painted it for me. His contact info is on the Aces of Iron web site. Very reasonable. I painted one myself a while back. It looked "OK", but Greg's work is off the charts.

ctflyboy

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Nick,

GREAT LOOKING PLANE, and GOOD LUCK WITH THE MAIDEN.




GEORGE
CORSAIR Brotherhood # 1

ctflyboy

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CORSAIR BROTHERHOOD (UPDATED 7/07/2010)
NAME SCREEN NAME NUMBER ASSIGNED
George Ctflyboy 1
Devens 2
Gibbs Ncis 3
David Tomcat 4
Bob RT 5
Winston Cimara 6
Charlie Foxfoto 7
Cliff Cliff 600 8
Tim TIM (Deceased) 9 (RETIRED NUMBER)
Dave D Bronk 10
Scott Scotty C 11
Mike Wulf 190 12
B Bowen 13
R Schaffer 14
M Callahan 15
Randy Bossman 16
Quinn Corsairkidd 17
Scott Sbleile 18
Ron Flytoolow 19
Phil Fili 20
R Monty 1 21
Mike Corsairbrotherhood 22
(NUMBERS 23 & 24) not used
Kelly Thunderbolt 25
Sam DaddySam 26
(Numbers 27 thru 34) not used
Mike Picard 1 35
Howie Texasskydiver 36
Leonard 555 41
Nick Frisconick 44
Nick M3guy100 48
Scott Fly 2xs 49
Gary M Gary M 50
Don Airboss45 51
George GTC 52
Radek Radek M 53
Jim JazzRC 54
Jack JSCogin 55
Robert Acerc 56
Nchrome 57
Henry FTMustang65 58
Duane Aceisback 59
Bob nauticom 60
mrrandyman 61

tfarmer96

ok boys give FriscoNick a big atta boy! He earned his Giant Scale F4U wings today. Here is the video of his maiden. Thats a good looking bird Nick!

http://www.wyliewarbirds.com/video/n...sconickf4u.wmv

pilotx

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FriscoNick: Nice work the plan looks awesome I hope you have many many more flights

-Tracey(hoping to be in the brotherhood soon)

wulf190

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Yeah baby! Nice job Nick! That feels good I'll bet huh? Baby just leaped right up in the air on take off and climbed out really nice. Great power for the plane for sure. Looks like it takes a pretty consistent management of speed on the landing with this thing I noticed, but you did a nice job smoothing out the descent while learning what she needs for sure. From here on out it's hopefully butter! Thanks for posting Terry...nice camera work. Must get my bird ready, cuz that sure does fly good.

GaryM

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Nick, awesome first flight, good job on the sticks, just wish it had not been 102 degrees in the shade.

rt3232

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Great job Nick[sm=thumbs_up.gif]

Cheers Bob T

frisconick

Thanks guys. Just now got to view the video. Nice work Terry! Engine was WAY rich, and I did the one thing I told myself I wouldn't do; get too slow on landing !! It dropped the last foot or so. Two of the cowl mounting stand-offs came loose and the axle on the port landing gear bent a bit when it stalled and fell. It won't be ready to go tomorrow, but next weekend better be nice weather !!

I've got some stills I'll post later. Someone (wife) left the camera on and drained the batteries!!

Thanks to all of you for your support and encouragement. When you spend 13 months building a plane, you go through the highs and lows, getting excited then getting frustrated and taking some time off. In the end, I can't think of a better way to have spent the last 13 months!!

wulf190

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Yup, that first flight is so nerve racking. If a bent axle and a couple of cowl screws is what it takes to get it done on flight one, that's ok by me. The thing looks like it drops out of the sky pretty fast dropping to idle. I will remember watching this video on my first flight. It seems like my preference for higher than average landing speed might be right up this birds alley. I gotta get cracking and get to the field! Great motivation, especially since my bird is in the same scheme!

rt3232

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Nick

Check your back side you might find a dimond, they say a bit of carbon heat and pressure is allit takes

Cheers Bob T