tony-howard

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Hi Ralph

It's nice to hear from you. It's been a very long time - so long it dates us both!

I'm still working to catch up with the backlog on the cowl kit. There are some pictures of it on my website. Along with that, I'm still selling scale exhaust kits for most of the current Mustang kits from 1/6 scale to 1/3 scale.

Tony

Ralph White

Fabio, I mounted the choke and throttle servos high in the nose right behind the former that the wing dowels go into. That puts them above the fuel tank. I than just run a straight pushrod from the servos to the choke and throttle arms. I did move my tank back a little bit from the firewall. I actually made a longer tank platform than the ARF comes with. This allows room in front of the tank for the pushrods. I also used a Fuji water bottle (1 liter) instead of the supplied tank. I think you should be able to do it with the stock tank. The pictures should help you see where I mounted the choke and throttle servos. You can barely see them to the right of the picture.

I have flown my P-51 5 times. It is not finished yet but I wanted to see how it flies. My DLE-55 Rear Exhaust was set a little lean from the factory. I had to open it about 1/8 turn on the high needle. I have always broke in my engines in the air. On the 1st flight the engine died after about 4 mintues. I believe it was because of being to lean and not broke in yet. I than flew a 2nd flight and the engine ran fine although I didn't do much full throttle flying. On the 3rd thru 5th flight I opened the high needle 1/8 turn and changed the prop from a Zinger 22x10 to a Mejzlik 21x10 carbon fiber. The plane came alive with the 21x10. I could not see any signs of running hot. This was all before I opened the rear slot in the cowl a little larger.

Ralph

Ralph White

Tony, Yes it has been a long time. I stopped flying about 25 years ago and started back in, along with my son Nick, about 6 years ago. Nick's 41 now. He was 1 when we moved from Seattle.

I'll probably be looking into getting a P-51 cowl for a 5 1/2" spinner next winter (if my P51 last till then). I can't stand how the Top Flite cowl looks on the ARF but I'll fly it the way it is this coming summer.

Glad to hear your still going in your business.

Ralph

Ralph White

Henry

Your Welcome. The more I work with the P-51B conversion from the P-51D ARF the more I'm glad I decided to go with it.

A couple things about using the FG Specialities canopy. First, be sure to cut the sides as low as possible to allow pently of gluing area. I almost cut my to short. Second, my canopy's front lip curvature was not a perfect fit to my fuselage. I think the TF fuselage must vary a little from ARF to ARF. What I did was glued some pieces of 1/16 plywood on the inside of the fuselage in the area of the front lip. You can see them in the 1st picture. This strengthened the area where I had cut the groove for the canopy lip and allowed my to put a couple small screws in the canopy lip while gluing it down as can be seen in picture 2. The small screws held the canopy lip down while the epoxy cured. I only had to do this in that one area. I removed the screws later.

By the way, when gluing the canopy on get someone to help hold it down till the epoxy cures. It's to much for one person to hold down. Also use 30-minute epoxy. I used 5-minute epoxy and it was almost a disaster. Also scratch up the area of the canopy the epoxy contacts for better adhesion.

Ralph

FalconD

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TF60. With conversion. Older kit. Sold as a limited addition, conversion was part of kit. Could build either one. OS 91, gear, and flaps. Nice kit that flies very well

glazier808

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No offence, but I didn't apply... You have me listed as number 44

Casey

mrshea

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sign me up to. Have a tf .60 that will be done after the thunderbolt is complete. Phil

ThunderBoat42

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Tuskegee: did you see the new monument in Orlando? Dedication was on Vetrans day and Kermit flew his restored Red Tail over. They got over to Weeks Air museum last weekend. I couldn't make it.. Bad spill.. Broke ribs. = slow moving LOL
When they are out there... Anything signed would be appreciated. An Archer scale 51 will be nice.

Avaiojet

I'll join!

Although I only have a CMP P-51 NIB, the big one.

chris923

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Pick Any Number you want!

r/coldie

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Can I jump in and play ? I've got a p.o.s.Nitroplanes P-51 Marie, a T.F. 1/5 Mustang, which is under re-contruction after a dead stick landing in a bean field, and a T.F. P-51 60, which should be ready to go in a couple of weeks. I want to get the giant ready to go to Warbirds Over Delaware this year. Let me know what my number is.
Rob

chris923

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The guy who started the Mustang BrotherHood is no longer keeping track of the numbers, so look thru the thread and pick an un-used number if you wish.

Ralph White

Fabio

Here is a better photo of the pushrods coming out of the firewall on my TF P-51B. I also posted this photo on the original post #252.
Ralph

bobbydee

I would be most happy if you were to enclude me in your "brotherhood".cuz I aint got one.but I do have a don gentile p-51 b 60 size. a fiberglassed fuse 60 size "D" version and a bud nosen 8 footer.I promise to wear my brotherhood with pride if accepted.....

gixxerjack

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Had 5 flights on my AW P-51 today. It rips it up and flies fantastic. The flaps are dialed in and it crawls in on landing. A little toe-in on the struts and it tracks nicely on the ground. I'll post links tomorrow.

Jack

2001az

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Count me in.
Have a ARC P-51 TF in the works



Thanks

Arturo

gixxerjack

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Here are a couple of links to my high-speed low passes and my warbirpilots.com pilot. Speed may not be to scale!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GuBTRDEm1A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jNNCDyo3pI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZqGI5oIWGs



Jack

rc34074

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Have you radared the speed of your strafing runs? They look fine to me- scale speed of a 1/5 scale mustang is not 450/5= 90. It is closer to 125 to 150 mph.

Scale speed is not proportional - but some try to say that.

Ed

gixxerjack

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Here a couple of pics from this weekend.

Jack

Falkwulf

Can anyone direct me to a good four bladed prop for a TF GE P-51 kit number P-516 1/7th scale. The aircraft will be powered by a Saito FA-120 or a FA-125A either way I need prop diameters, and pitch. Can anyone help me with this?

Falkwulf

Can anyone direct me to a good four bladed prop for a TF GE P-51 kit number P-516 1/7th scale. The aircraft will be powered by a Saito FA-120 or a FA-125A either way I need prop diameters, and pitch. Can anyone help me with this?

gixxerjack

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What is the prop range for those motors? 14/6? When converting to a 3 or 4-blade prop, you must account for the drag of the extra blade. So, what I've heard for a 4-blade conversion is drop 2" on diameter and 1" on pitch. Some may say go 2" on both. The problem may lie in the fact that the blade will look too small and may not produce the desired thrust. My AW P-51 has a DA50. The 4-blade prop for the DA50 would be an 18 or 19". That's way too small and wouldn't produce the thrust neccesary to pull the plane. To make it look scale it would take a 24-26" 4 blade prop. That's DA85 power. I saw pics of an AW P-51 with the DA85 mod.

try this for prop selection: http://www.soloprops.com/prop_chart.php

Your thoughts?


Jack

gixxerjack

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Ed,
I have not radared any runs yet. Perhaps this Saturday. Has anyone used the doppler app for a smartphone? Are they useful? Accurate?

Jack

dwaynenancy

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Ralph, I flew one of your Pagens as my first full kit that had Logitrol I in it. It didn't have retracts as that was to come later after I saw RohmAirs at the NATS. It was a great flying airplane that died when a xtal died.

ThunderBoat42

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For 4 blade prop I like the Biela carbon fiber. Solo is the ultimate but fork out $200. Troy Built Models is where I purchase mine. If you go to 25% of wingspan it will look good. Scale is abt 29% of wing span 29.7% to be exact. But it looks funny on a model. http://www.troybuiltmodels.com/categ...ropellers.html

A Ys 120 turns the 14*8 strong. I am running a 17.3×8 on a YS 1.70. The prop is 27% of wing and looks too big. Not proportioned 'looking' to the model. . So going to a 16*8. On a tablet but will try to post a pic.

The D model has a 39ft span and a 11'2" Hamilton prop. The B and C models had a smaller prop

Just what I found when researching this last year.