Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
11-22-2004, 02:24 AM
#1
Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
For those who are waiting for Top Flite to release the giant scale P-47D ARF or ARC, here are some videos to wet your appetite:
* [link=http://www.whitetyphoon.com/rc/swift_p47/take_off.wmv]Take Off[/link] - can't go wrong with a scale take off
* [link=http://www.whitetyphoon.com/rc/swift_p47/scale_pass.wmv]Scale Pass[/link]
* [link=http://www.whitetyphoon.com/rc/swift_p47/scale_roll.wmv]Scale Roll[/link]
* [link=http://www.whitetyphoon.com/rc/swift_p47/flip_inverted.wmv]Flip Inverted[/link]
* [link=http://www.whitetyphoon.com/rc/swift_p47/dirty_pass.wmv]Dirty Pass[/link]
* [link=http://www.whitetyphoon.com/rc/swift_p47/landing.wmv]Landing[/link] - this is how it's done
The model is built and flown by Robert Swift of Seattle, WA.
* [link=http://www.whitetyphoon.com/rc/swift_p47/take_off.wmv]Take Off[/link] - can't go wrong with a scale take off
* [link=http://www.whitetyphoon.com/rc/swift_p47/scale_pass.wmv]Scale Pass[/link]
* [link=http://www.whitetyphoon.com/rc/swift_p47/scale_roll.wmv]Scale Roll[/link]
* [link=http://www.whitetyphoon.com/rc/swift_p47/flip_inverted.wmv]Flip Inverted[/link]
* [link=http://www.whitetyphoon.com/rc/swift_p47/dirty_pass.wmv]Dirty Pass[/link]
* [link=http://www.whitetyphoon.com/rc/swift_p47/landing.wmv]Landing[/link] - this is how it's done
The model is built and flown by Robert Swift of Seattle, WA.
11-22-2004, 08:00 AM
#3
Member
My Feedback: (2)
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Plainsboro,
NJ
Posts: 52
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
Alkaline, I believe that is an illusion that occurs when videotaping a moving propeller.
Richard L, thank you for sharing those excellent movies !! Nice landing also [sm=thumbup.gif]
WBB
Richard L, thank you for sharing those excellent movies !! Nice landing also [sm=thumbup.gif]
WBB
11-22-2004, 09:36 AM
#5
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: J�nk�ping, SWEDEN
Posts: 195
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
Looking great, richard.
Im eager to get my TP Jug up in the air but will have to wait 5 month or so for the wether to get better again. Got the first snow today.
About the that the prop seems too be spinning slow. It depends on how many pics/sec the camera takes. I dont know how digital cameras work but guess they work the same way. I did just read about this on another site on The Internet.
Im eager to get my TP Jug up in the air but will have to wait 5 month or so for the wether to get better again. Got the first snow today.
About the that the prop seems too be spinning slow. It depends on how many pics/sec the camera takes. I dont know how digital cameras work but guess they work the same way. I did just read about this on another site on The Internet.
11-22-2004, 10:23 AM
#6
My Feedback: (1)
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Northfield Center, OH
Posts: 2,205
Likes: 0
Received 2 Likes
on
2 Posts
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
I think the propeller looks like that from using the high speed "sports/action" setting on the camera. If you use the normal settings, the prop looks normal.
Jim
Jim
11-22-2004, 10:33 AM
#7
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
Thanks guy. The videos were recorded with a Sony Digital8 camcorder. I don't know why the prop appeared to be spinning so slowly. The camcorder doesn't seem to have the high speed "sports/action" setting.
Some more info on the plane:
* Engine: Zenoah G-62
* Retracts: Robart with retractable tailwheel
Perhaps Rob S. can chime in to tell us more about the plane weight, prop used, etc...
Some more info on the plane:
* Engine: Zenoah G-62
* Retracts: Robart with retractable tailwheel
Perhaps Rob S. can chime in to tell us more about the plane weight, prop used, etc...
11-22-2004, 07:42 PM
#9
Member
My Feedback: (4)
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Seattle,
WA
Posts: 72
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
Great camera work Richard! Thanks for letting me show off how easy the Top Flite GS P-47 can make a pilot look good. Believe me fellow warbirds lovers, I would highly recommend this plane for your first giant scale project. I built this plane as per the included instruction and plan. The only modification was the G-62 which fit entirely in the cowl with a Bennett muffler and weight the same as the U.S 41 that the instruction recommended. This plane was finish with Ultracote, what the heck !, film covering on a GS warbird? I did it to save weight (plane total weight was 22.5 lbs) and gave it a museum finish to replicate the current "Tarheel Hal" that I believe is still flying with the Lone Star Flight Museum in Texas. Again thanks Richard for teasing the warbird community with some great videos. Now all we can hope for is that Top Flite will produce this plane in ARF or ARC. With the success they got with the GS P-51 that I've seen, why wouldn't they? I flown both GS P47 and the P51 and by far the jug is a much better handling airplane than the P51. I hope they would produce both the bubble top and the razorback version, that just my wishful thinking.
Robert
Robert
11-22-2004, 09:00 PM
#11
My Feedback: (77)
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Bryan, TX
Posts: 3,157
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
Awesome, Richard and Robert....Great Video and GREAT FLYING....I think we all need to go to the Top-Flite website and start burning up the "NEXT PLANE" suggestion boxes...GS P-47's......I am in such anticipation...I have a Y/A P-47 that I am rebuilding after its maiden flight ended in disaster,,,RX battery failure..Any how...I'd love a darn ARF or ARC.....Lets all start emailing them again....
11-23-2004, 12:25 AM
#13
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
Great flying guys, I got to see the real one "Tarheel Hal" fly this summer and let me tell you, the flying in the videos was very prototypical of the real deal. Congrats again, can't wait till Top Flight comes out with an ARC.
11-23-2004, 12:42 AM
#14
My Feedback: (6)
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
Hey Rob! Welcome home! It's great to know your home safe and hopefully here to stay. You did a great job flying and Richard did a great job filming your Jug. That landing was a "10". THanks for sharing the video guys!
Jack Devine
Jack Devine
11-23-2004, 02:47 AM
#16
Banned
My Feedback: (1)
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Posts: 7,744
Likes: 0
Received 2 Likes
on
2 Posts
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
many thanks for that Richard, I'm very impressed with it. i'm about half way through building the top section of the fuz on my GS TF P47 and it will have same setup but will be glassed and painbted, probably as "hairless joe"
That is so very stable and scale like in the air, not like most warbird models you see.
Great camera work.
cheers
Peter
That is so very stable and scale like in the air, not like most warbird models you see.
Great camera work.
cheers
Peter
12-12-2004, 02:13 AM
#18
Member
My Feedback: (4)
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Seattle,
WA
Posts: 72
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
BankYank, with the G-62 setup, it came out slightly nose heavy. I added about 6 oz. right behind the tail wheel's opening and it came out balanced as per the instruction.
07-23-2009, 06:59 PM
#20
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Victoria,
MN
Posts: 3,934
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
ORIGINAL: Richard L.
For those who are waiting for Top Flite to release the giant scale P-47D ARF or ARC, here are some videos to wet your appetite:
The model is built and flown by Robert Swift of Seattle, WA.
For those who are waiting for Top Flite to release the giant scale P-47D ARF or ARC, here are some videos to wet your appetite:
The model is built and flown by Robert Swift of Seattle, WA.
I think that plane really captures the essence of a p-47.....the Wings (eclipse type, like the spitfire) are just
fantastic!)
11-17-2009, 10:36 PM
#21
Junior Member
My Feedback: (5)
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Fort Wayne,
IN
Posts: 11
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
What a thrill to watch. I just love that version of the P47D. Great flying and great craftsmanship. Enjoy many years of strafing runs on those 3rd reich locomotives!
11-18-2009, 01:09 AM
#22
My Feedback: (10)
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
Wow.....an old thread that I never saw when I was building mine.
Here's my vid anyways.......That is JohnVH on the sticks for the maiden. Why I let him fly it I'll never know as the flights I flew after this were cake for me.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPNeAUgq8m0[/youtube]
Here's my vid anyways.......That is JohnVH on the sticks for the maiden. Why I let him fly it I'll never know as the flights I flew after this were cake for me.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPNeAUgq8m0[/youtube]
11-18-2009, 10:28 AM
#24
My Feedback: (60)
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Litchfield Park,
AZ
Posts: 7,677
Likes: 0
Received 25 Likes
on
23 Posts
RE: Top Flite Giant P-47D Vids
Nice video, nice Jug, and nice flyilng! Anybody seen Richard L. lately by the way? He has not logged in for almost a year, at least not under the user name Richard L. Hope all is well with him.
