That's great help Marko, I wrote down your wing angle recommendations in the manual. Thanks! Did you mount the ZDZ directly on the plane’s firewall or did you made it a bit flexible to minimize the vibration of heavy one cylinder motors? (with rubbers and Tony Clarks hydromount for example)
Last Friday I visited, just like every year, Intermodelbau in Dortmund, Europe’s biggest modellers exhibition. Almost all R/C manufacturers show there newest items and during the exhibition a lot off stuff is being sold much cheaper. Oracover for example, the average price/meter in the Netherlands is about 9 euro. In Dortmund it’s 4,75 euro. So I bought 15 mtr of white Oratex for the Waco for about 60 euro. The red striping is going to be painted (sprayed) on the plane. Two component paint works very well on Oratex and it’s resistant to almost any fuel.

After visiting the exhibition, there’s more doubt as far as the motor concerns. My mind really isn’t made up yet. Haven’t looked any 5 cyl. radial yet, because I thought they are above my budget, but after the exhibition I think it must be possible. The Waco is an important project for me, so I’m willing to save some extra money for a motor that really puts a smile on my face. A real challenge for me, because I have no experience with that kind of powerplants. There are two demands in which I won’t compromise, it must fit under the cowl and it has to be as powerful as the plane’s construction can handle (there’s, even for a scale plane, no such thing as overpowered). Other important issue is an acceptable vibration level.
Then there’s also a “nice to have list”, number 1 item on that list is a two or more cylinder power source. Do you (or anyone else), assuming price doesn’t matter, have any suggestions meeting the above requirements?
I also like to install a smoke system, but again, I’m a first timer in choosing and installing a smoke system. Any suggestions or tips and hints are really welcome here.
Last question for now, you wrote you equipped your plane with a flight computer. What’s the purpose of a flight computer? It sounds a bit like unnecessary “bling”, but as you may guess, I like some “bling”, and I’m interested in some info about it.

A lot of other questions (what kind of servo’s/battery packs to use etc.), keeping me busy but I haven’t applied one drop of glue yet so that’s for later concern I guess.

Thank you being so helpful till now!


Grzt,

Gerry