Yeah, I'm gonna post a building thread, whenever I can start it, but don't hold your breath. Got a s**tload to do on the house, figure it will be into late spring or summer before I start the Birddog. 1/4 scale, 108 inch wing, Vaillancourt plans, US-41 gas engine. I talked about it on the warbirds forum; going to be an amalgam of different planes from the Vietnam era, didn't want to get locked in to a specific bird; I know this kind of screws it up for a scale competition, but it will be accurate to the type, specifically an "A" model, they were most prevalent. I'm thinking of a short-lived camo pattern used by the Air Force, going to make functional hard points with drop mechanisms, also make removable pylons to mount rocket pods or M-60's. The Vailly plans only give 45 degrees of flaps, I'm going to try to do the full 60 the full-size has.

I found a book called "the Lovable One-Niner" that has all the technical specs of all the variants, and about 200 pictures, complete history of development and use in Korea, Vietnam and civilian, plus an index of ALL the serial #'s and tail #'s as well as their date of manufacture. I plan to use the tail number of the plane that was built on my birthday, August 24, 1954.