Dear LDalmas:
The PIPE Here once more...and I'm doing up a set of GIANT SCALE (1/4th size) CAD-drawn plans for Lanoe Hawker's "No. 1611" Bristol Scout C from 1915!!
It's going to be my very FIRST RC Giant Scale WW I aircraft...I've already got an RCV 120 SP "geared output" four stroke engine for it, to swing a 56 cm "nearly SCALE diameter" prop (it CAN swing those after a good break-in period)...and if you got yourself a copy of the
Windsock Datafile No.44, the J M Bruce authored volume on the Bristol Scout series (I got my copy from
http://www.hrunway.com/shop/en-us/p_105.html at Hannan's Runway in Calfornia...and where you ARE right in the middle of the Mediterranean, the UK based publisher of these books, Albatros Publications, should ALSO have them available at
http://www.windsockdatafilespecials.com/datafiles.html )...you would have a GREAT initial document to start building YOUR Bristol Scout from!
If you asctually wanted to do the "later" Scout D version, my old RC buddy HANK ILTZSCH designed up one nearly a quarter century ago for the US "Model Aviation" magazine...check at
http://www.modelaircraft.org/plans81.asp , and it's plan number 328 that you're looking for there. I've got a copy of Hank's plans set myself...
and they are MAGNIFICENTLY done, with every detail in place...and they are STILL READILY AVAILABLE...please let me know if you'd like a set of printed-out pages of his construction article for HIS Bristol Scout D design !
The Scout C is a "quirky" aircraft, since it changed a "fair bit" in the details from one production batch to another. One example of this is that the first two production batches in 1914 and 1915 actually had the rotary engine's oil tank located BEHIND THE PILOT'S SHOULDERS...which is EXACTLY where it is on Lanoe's No. 1611...and a publication that both Hank and I subscribe to, Leo Opdycke's WW I AERO quarterly (one issue per season) magazine, at
http://www.aviation-history.com/ww1aero.htm , had a drawing OF that early oil tank's location AND the whole set of "plumbing" to get the engine's oil from right behind the cockpit forward into the nose.
So, if you're planning on a Scout C version, my CAD-drawn plans are getting worked on...the Scout D plans are available from the USA source I've already mentioned in RC Quarter Scale...and be SURE to get yourself a copy of Windsock Datafile No.44, as those will NICELY help you create a Bristol Scout you'll enjoy for MANY years to come...and just "private message" or Email me, through RCUniverse, if you'd like some more help on getting info for your Bristol Scout project! (And ATTCHED is a photo of the Scout C I'm going to be doing...Lanoe Hawker's No.1611!)
Yours Sincerely,
The PIPE!
