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42 Attachment(s) FMS B-25 my first bomber!
Build Log / Posted by P-51 flyby / Mar 14, 2013 @ 08:57 PM / 2,343 Views / 13 Comments / Reply
So I will add more later on the story. But I picked this girl up as a ARF used two days ago! She had been crashed but I am pretty decent with tools so I can and have fixed some things the previous pilot jury rigged.

I have decided to make this plane into Panchito...but with a twist! Here are some pics more details on the way!...Continue Reading
32 Attachment(s) Dynam P-51D "Bald Eagle" project!!
Build Log / Posted by P-51 flyby / Mar 06, 2013 @ 07:39 PM / 1,554 Views / 2 Comments / Reply
Bald Eagle Project.

This project began sometime in Oct. 2012 yet the first part was bought in Nov. of 2011. See the beloved "Angels Playmate" had lost her canopy and I realized I had to buy a new fuse to get the foam part of the canopy. Well the old canopy was found in the field after the purchase was made of the new fuse. So that left me with a fuse hanging around with nothing to do. As Angels is getting older I wanted to retire her before she was completely gone. Now what i mean by retire is simple. I will still fly her on occasion but she would no longer be my go to bird. Which she is now. If my other planes piss me off or life is bugging me this is the Mustang in the stable that always seems to do just fine and always ready to find some jerries. So all of that being said...Bald Eagle began construction. Why Bald Eagle.....simple. I replicate planes I have seen and have meaning to me. Like Angels Playmate came about because the airshow my girlfriend and I began dating,Angels was a plane we both found quite cool out of the mustangs that were there...Bald Eagle came about because I have grown up going to airshows. I recall some great memories seeing Mustangs perform. Watching Jim Beasley Jr. fly the absolute hell out of a Mustang is a great memory. One of the last times I recall seeing Jim fly Bald Eagle was at Cherry Point,NC in 2008. It was great seeing him fly that stang three times that weekend. So Bald Eagle is on the list of stangs to do so...here she...Continue Reading
41 Attachment(s) Dynam C-47 used converted to a Piedmont DC-3
Build Log / Posted by P-51 flyby / Oct 03, 2012 @ 07:33 PM / 1,855 Views / 7 Comments / Reply
So after almost a year of wanting to build a Piedmont DC-3...its nearing completion. Lets start at the well...start. I got back into this hobby a year and a month ago after a few years out of it. I always wanted to build a Topflite DC-3 and do a Piedmont DC-3 out of it. Getting back into the hobby found that electrics fit my budget and the days of overwieght and underpowered planes were over. Lipo and brushless it is!! I found that Dynam makes a DC-3 and for one reason or another opted out of buying one...(normally to buy yet another P-51). I had a chance to see one of these little birds fly at my local flying field. It flew great and the pilot one of about 5 men at this club that isnt a stuck up sh*t stain would spend hours talking about aviation RC and full scale. Great guy! Fast forward 4 months. I approached him about selling his C-47 from Dynam as it had been crashed a few times and had terrible case of sunburn from being stored in direct sunlight. I knew I was going to strip this bird down and turn her into a DC-3 so that didnt bother me. As with any used plane you buy you know there is going to be an amount of repairs done that you would have done different or things here and there you find you want to change. The seller was very straight forward about the planes history. As I began the process of stripping her paint and parts..I really began to doubt if I had lost my mind on buying this plane to make the Piedmont DC-3. Her paint had melted from being in the sun...Continue Reading
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