Starting this new thread, and hoping that the focus can be kept on the subject (Hangar 9 B-25J ARF).
PLEASE USE COMMON SENSE:
I am also hoping that posts to this thread are informative and meaningful to those who own or are planning to own this ARF. In order to accomplish this, I am hoping to keep out the nuisance posts which eventually number so many, that it makes it extremely difficult for those seeking real information to find it.
That said; I have some rules for this thread.
The rules are totally un-enforceable: anyone and everyone has the right to totally disregard any and all of them. To me tho, they are a common sense approach to keeping this thread as informative as possible, without having posts that are meaningless to the majority us us.
RULES:
1) If all you want to do is say "Hi" to someone else; please PM or e-mail them. Why create a post which contributes nothing, while taking up space and making it more difficult and time consuming to some person to find genuine information concerning the topic of discussion?
2) Remember: there is an "Edit" button. Please don't waste (cyber) space by posting a 'whoops', and then creating another post to correct. Use the "Edit" button to correct your post, rather than creating another post. Again; having many posts which contribute little or nothing makes it more difficult and time consuming for others to find the important posts. Have some consideration for those who will be trying to learn something from this thread.
3) Don't use this thread to assert which B-25 ARF is better. There are already threads for that. If you want a thread about the Top Flite B-25 (or any other B-25), feel free to start one. Most people will agree that the Top Flite B-25 is more detailed, larger, and more expensive. So why make it more difficult for those of us that have chosen the Hangar9 B-25, regardless of the differences?
Those are the rules. As stated earlier: they are totally unenforcible, and anyone has the right to be as inconsiderate as they choose to be. We are all jerks (*ssholes) at times; please don't be one that takes your turn at it more often then others.
What I DO encourage is contributions from others.
If you have a Hangar 9 B-25: tell us about it. Post pictures of it and PLEASE provide details:
1) which engines are you using?
2) did you install retacts?
3) what radio gear are you using?
4) anything special about your's (modifications)?
5) HOW MUCH DOES IT WEIGH? And this is a big one in my opinion, so please find a way to accurately weigh it.
If you have ideas for modifications, please post them here. That is the main purpose of this thread: to share ideas on how to make these B-25s better looking/ more scale accurate, and/ or better flying. Hopefully, I can meet some of you next summer at warbird events, and we can do some formation flying.
Questions are welcome also, but please read all previous posts, OR check the table of contents to see if has already been asked and answered. Engine choice questions are inevitable, so again; please read what has already been posted.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
I will attempt to post 'contents' pages and keep them up to date. Since a post can only be editted within a certain time frame (I don't know how long, but here is an 'expiration date' on being able to edit a post), I will begin with post 2 as the 1st table of contents, and will attempt to have every 100th post be an updated table of contents. Thus, if you are looking for the most up to date table of contents; always look around the 'century' posts (100, 200, etc.). I may not always be able to post them right on the 'century' posts, but they will be nearby (101, 102, etc).
LINKS:
Here are some links you may find useful:
If you really want to voice your opinion on which is better (Top Flite or Hangar 9), here is the place to do it:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_61...tm.htm#6164430
If you want more general info and/ or general discussion on the Hangar 9 B-25:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_6047579/tm.htm
Here is a thread with discussion and pictures of full scale B-25s, for ANY B-25 project:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_6274723/tm.htm
Lastly, a Doolittle Raider web-site:
http://www.doolittleraid.com/index.htm
A lot of words already in his post, so I'll end it for now.