RE: Bates B-26 Marauder
I am going to have to totally, 100% disagree with Bill, this time. Bill and I are in the same club, by the way, only I fly from 7:00-9:30 in the morning and he flies from 5:00-7:30 in the evenings.
Drop me an e-mail and I can get you in touch with a man who, as I recall, built and who I watched successfully fly a giant B-26 in our club. He then gave it to the owner who bashed it a couple of weeks later. I saw all the flights on the plane and you can forget getting practice on a little Twin-Air. It will only teach you bad habits. I don't think the plane can be flown successfully on 1 engine. If you lose one, you'd better cut power and find some real estate.
The original test pilot, who is about the best scale pilot I have seen, told me he could not come off full power until he was committed for landing. But talk to him about it. I think they were using 2 OS 1.08s. I hope we are talking about the same plane, around a 10 ft span, fuselage about a foot or so in diameter.