CorsairJock

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I don't recall if I put holes in mine or not (I know some do), but it would have been to save weight. In retrospect tho: very little weight is saved by drilling holes in 1/16" sheet balsa, and since it would also slighten weaken the structure (which DOES need to be strong), I would say to go ahead and skip that part.

As for carbon fiber: .007 (inch?) is a number that jumps out at me. I used to get strips about 1/4" wide from Hobby Lobby, way back when carbon fiber stuff was hard to find, and I think that was the size. It needs to be thin, so that it blends in somewaht with the rest of the rudder.

budmo

Hello Gents,

My Corsair finally got it's maiden flight! Iput a small video camera on the dash where the gunsight would be.

Chad Veichdid the test flying. Hesaid that it needed very little trim and flew great.

Please check out the video here:

http://youtu.be/bR1NmoOPLg8

Sniper68

Anyone know if these Mchine Gun Mod's are still available? I can't find anything on the web about Wing Manufacturing.

Thanks

Chad Veich

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Wing is out of business I'm afraid Sniper68. Not sure if anyone has picked up their line of accessories or not.

I-fly-any-and-all

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What! when did wing manufacturing close???

BobH

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It's been a while since wing closed. Maybe a year or more?

budmo

To anyone out there building one of these, I would suggest throwing the stock (plastic) cowl in the trash and get a fiberglass cowl.
I went through the trouble of trying the stock one and it cracks very easily.

CorsairJock

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I've used nothing BUT the stock cowl: NEVER had a problem with any of them.

It's been awhile, and there were at least 2 threads in this forum about it. Dan Gipe and his wife Billie have moved to Arizona, and did not take Wing Mfg. with them. I don't know what became of the molds and production equipment, but as far as I know: it is gone forever. A real shame, because in addition to the kits, they had an VERY large amount of scale warbird accessories.

Duplicator41

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Try these folks.
www.dbalsa.com

Cheers,

Ice5

99.9% of dbalsa's stuff is for giant scale.. no help at all.. why post?

hatnikman3

Wow Ice wish there was a bunch more people like you out there. keep that
[] great attitude! lata nick[:'(]

Ice5

without too much, its not about attitude.. we who use this as information would love to not weed through 1000s of post not related to this post to get the info you really need. that is the point. As stated up front this is for 60 sized aircraft..

hatnikman3

Ice, many of us have .60 size AND giant scale and found the mention of Dbalsa to be useful. That one post was much more useful than your last TWO posts that we now have to "weed through"! Cheers

lgaines85

Well after a few life altering events, i've managed to get the Corsair glassed. The fuselage is finished being painted with the exception of canopy, elevator and rudder. Just primered the wing tonight and will be working on it when I can. Heres a few pics, hopefully their not big as I see em on my computer.

lgaines85

Here's a few more pics. Just waiting on the canopy kit to come in so it wont look so boring.

bigstew60

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Hey guys, I am about to get back on my corsair project thats been on hold due too a deployment. I am going to model mine after the F4u-5n (VMF(N)-513 night fighter. I was just wondering if anybody had any ideas on how to add the cheek scoops on the cowl.

kochj

You could use the stock one as a neg. mold....and make your own fiberglass cowl....

G-JIMG

It's been a while since anyone has contributed to this thread but hopefully people still review it.

I have a question for SMUGator regarding the Cowl Baffle you detailed in Post #963. Did it provide enough cooling and, if so, what angle was it at?




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v1rotatemodels

Ok, I'm sold ordering a Corsair kit today...

lgaines85

It seems like this thread has died down. Well I finally located screws long enough to install my flaps and ailerons. All that's left to do is paint the servo doors and start the motor. I'm hoping by next week if not the week after (depending on work schedule) that I'll get the maiden flight in. So far here's what my Corsair looks like

CorsairJock

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Looks pretty stock, did you do any of the mods? The main gear appears to be canted inward slightly: I would suggest installing shims between the gear and inboard mounting rails to make it look better, AND probably make the gear less suseptable to damage. I'm thinking the strut wires are more likely to get bent the way it is now. Just a suggestion.

lgaines85

Yea I already added shims after the photos where taken. All I've done with the kit is added retractable tail wheel and flaps. I started this project over two years ago. About 6 months ago I was able to get back to it. I wasn't really looking into too many mods due to I have the TopFlite Zero and a giant scale P51 that I wanna put more $$ into and build next.

acdii

I just started working on mine and am to the center section of the build. I already did the tail feathers, too late though found out the "scale" hinging on the plans was on the wing sheet, and not on the fuse sheet where you would think they would put SOME details! Was some what impressed at the start of the build, then as I got into it, and found some important detail missing, such as a cross section of the rudder top to bottom, and the aforementioned hinge detail.
Now I have another piece of missing information, the Well Doublers! Step 13 says to slide them into place, but do not glue yet. I have yet to find out when they should be glued in.

One a side note, glad i found this thread since I am nearly to the point to build the wing tips, and the scale reference to how the tip blocks should be shaped will be very helpful. Going to use Robart hinge pins for everything as I like them better than the CA hinges, already have the tail hinged up and moving nicely, but going to revisit the shape of the tail, and modify it if I can.

This one will be flown with a YS FZ110 and 3 blade prop, but haven't decided on which retracts to use, there is a set of Electrics I am thinking about, as I would like to not use Robarts air operated, I have them setup on a 60 P-51 and found them to be a PITA. http://www.wingspanretracts.com/LGR630T

acdii

Downloaded the latest version of the manual and found when to glue in the Well Doublers. Nice how not only did they mess up two sections of the plans, they also left out some useful information from the manual.

On a side note, going with Century jet retracts for this.

CorsairJock

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If you haven't covered the tail feathers yet, you can still modify the rudder/ give it a more correct outline. The rudder and the wingtips are easily the 2 biggest eyesores with the Top Flite kits. Anyone who has been to full scale airshows as much as I have can easily spot the inaccuracies of those 2 items. The rudder is especially easy to correct.