morganflyboy

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Hi all
When I get a day off from work, I will try and post some pics of my Fleets.

Morgan

hooker53

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Thanks Morgan for your info. I have a convertion engine I put in mine this week and was just wondering how your pulled. I think I will be alright. It's a Homy with an oversized carb and I also installed a two ring piston with Bowman rings. It pulled a 1/4 scale Dr-1 around very nice at half throttle. I like to scale fly myself.

morganflyboy

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Hey Hooker53
I forgot to mention, that I am swinging a 20x8 XOAR prop also. It looks great on the plane too.

morganflyboy

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Hey Hooker53
I forgot to mention that, I am swinging a 20x8 XOAR prop also. It looks great on the plane to.

hooker53

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Thanks Morgan. I will try one of those!!! Roy

morganflyboy

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WHATS THE SECERT TO UP LOADING PIC'S ON HERE ????????.

hooker53

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Morgan, on the last post which will be mine that you are reading right now, reach up there and hit "Reply". Type what you want to type and then look down at the bottem of the window and you will see a link to upload your photo!!

hooker53

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Just like this.

morganflyboy

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Hi Guys
Hope the pics upload ok, first time doing it on RCU, I could not assemble the wings due to the contractors working on our addition, and I only have a few shots.

morganflyboy

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well I posted them, not sure what in the Hec happened, but if you scroll down and click on the enlarged title, the you can arrow thru to see pics. If anyone has and idea what I did wrong please let me know.

morganflyboy

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trying another pic.

morganflyboy

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Here are all of the pics one more times.

retransit

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Now you've got it!

Bob

hooker53

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Doing good Morgan. Nice looking Fleet. I had a Saito 325 on mine and installed a gasser on it. After you get the wings on it, take some more and post them.

morganflyboy

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The contractors will be finished @ the 18th of Dec, the wife the got the new expanded kitchen. And I got the new added on basement which I will be using for my building room once I get it set up. Hec of a deal isn't it.

Morgan

morganflyboy

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Question Guys
A flying buddy just purchased a 1/3 Scale short kit and now he has a wood material list to buy. Any suggestions who would have would carry the material he needs. Such as spruce Spars for the 2 6 Ft wings. I have no clue who he can order this from.

Thanks
Morgan

retransit

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Try..........

http://www.nationalbalsa.com/

http://www.balsawoodinc.com/

and Lone Star is back in business:

http://www.lonestar-balsa.com/

You'll have to sort out price comparisons. The last couple of orders I placed was with National.

Bob

morganflyboy

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Thanks Bob.

retransit

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Just looked at a couple of neat biplanes to model. A Douglas World Cruiser and a Boeing Model 40. A quarter scale Cruiser would be 150 inches and a Model 40 would be 132.5 inches.

Bob

Fleet

Rib cap strip spruce is of superior quality at Acft Spruce. Ply is also available there as well.

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/index.html

This is a deep in the heart project if i can find plans: http://www.airspacemag.com/history-o...nt=Restoration

I had Precision Cut Kits cut a kit from Jerry Wiess plans. The wing parts and spar parts were spot on. Perhaps they could cut just some wings for you.

Ray W.

retransit

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Ray,
I have to say that the period of mid-1920's to mid 1930's has to be the glory years of aviation. So many designs that have substance and heart were produced at that time. Maybe it's because I'm older now, but almost every one of those aircraft gives me a warm feeling when I see them.

I noticed that the Zenith has about the same dimensions and weight as the Boeing 40 biplane. Both would be good subjects.


40C:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfNPTuqg6I8

Bob

retransit

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Ray, here's another link:

http://home.comcast.net/~biplane0/

Bob

Fleet

Very Worthy subject.

You've a source of plans or the like?

Ray W.

retransit

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Yesterday I came across a three view and some interesting drawings on Ebay, which I ordered. I'll have to turn them into a set of plans.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=350276668922

Another source would be Pemberton & Sons which did the resto on the 40C.

Bob

Fleet

For Morganflyboy, I just remembered that the spruce and ply sizes for the wing spars are quite long on the 1/3rd scale and may need to be spliced to proper dimensions if you can't purchase at suitable length.

You can find my build here somewhere to explain. The top wing is longer than any 36 inch stock. Not pushing their service but PCK did a good job on the wing ribs and spars.

Lots of struts on that beauty.

Ray