ORIGINAL: capnduane
Great, Oberst! looking foreward to seeing your birds in MA. I have a few WW1 models also. Lets see... Fokker DVIII 1/4 scratch built with G 23, Balsa USA 1/4 DVIII w/ G26I, rebuilt from a crash, given to me by a good friend. Balsa USA Moraine Saulnier 1/3 with a Zioritz 42. 1/4 Balsa USA Fokker DR1 built last year and setting in the living room waiting for covering and paint...... Then theres the cubs, and the warbirds, its a SICKNESS, I TELL YA! Got inspired by your great pics today, and made up the gas gauge for my Z out of a #3 pencil, a piece of 1/4in dowel and a straight pin! Turned out pretty good, if I say so myself! later, Duane O ya forgot, my Moraine is pictured in the current Balsa USA catalogue.
Nice job on the gas gauge and the famous gas cap! It's still not known- I don't think, that the gas cap had anything to do with Lowell Bayles death during the speed record test. To me it looks as if he broke a spar and the right wing folded. A few days or so prior to the attempted speed record, he overshot the runway and cartwheeled damaging the right wing. I suspect that the right wing was already damaged or weakened by the time his last speed attempt was done. His last pass was clocked at 300mph!
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I was going to build the BUSA Fokker DVIII and decided to put it off for this Gee Bee Z. I'm on a tight budget and I would have been way off if I were to build it and "Bash" it the way I would have wanted. Besides, the largest engine in my collection is the brand new Saito FA150GK for now. My other engines are a 1983 O.S.FS 120 (before Surpass), FS91 II Surpass, 46Max and a Supertigre 51. All too small for another 1/4 scale except for the O.S.FS1.20, it would be good in a 1/4 scale Eindecker, Taube or Cub.
Wow Duane, I bet you knocked over a few lamps in your home before, where do you store them all? Me, I have to hang them up for winter storage.
My theory is we can not ever have enough planes until the wife starts to gripe. [&:] Even then, we have ways of influencing her that we should get just one more.
Pete