I am considering building the Guilow mitchell bomber for indoor flying with a nuke system and wondering if I will be lucky and what motors to fir. I have two o1s and wodered if they would work.


Pete

I can't help, but you might want to try this [link=http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=278820]rcgroups thread[/link]. It seems there is a big Guilllows conversion community at RCgroups. I myself was inspired to get a Mitsubishi Zero and a Stuka... Not sure about power systems yet...
Andy

electricpete,

If I read your post correctly, do you want to fly a Guillows Mitchell Bomber indoors on Cox .010's? Or electric? With a pair of Cox .010's this would not be a good idea since the plane will be rather quick handling, fly fast, be extremely loud and if you have a problem you can't do anything until the engines run out of fuel. Not an indoor situation. Half-A-Hec had a Littlest Stik (electric powered) he tried to fly indoors – very fast and to make a long story short the wing is now on his Re-V-Amped. Keep indoors flying to the slow flying aircraft and the 3-D designed for indoors.

It will be a handful on one engine. I’ve seen a several guys who fly large, scale twins use a gyro to help keep the plane under control in an engine out situation. Check out Combatpigg's ordeal with a Guillows FW-190 conversion to RC in the 1/2A forum. He's a very experienced RCer and can provide a lot of good advice on converting Guillows planes to RC.

If you’re going to do a conversion, gather as much material as possible before starting. I'd think about going electric on this just because of the single engine situation you'll face on every flight with the Cox engines (almost guaranteed for every flight). Also how many channels are you looking at using? Remember that Cox .010’s are a one way trip – full throttle until they run out of fuel, while with electric you’ll have throttle control.

Good luck, and be sure to post pictures if you do build it.

Hogflyer

I was thinkinking about the KP01 electric. Motors