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Posted by Old_Pilot | Nov 25, 2016 @ 11:49 AM | 9,587 Views
I found (4) 70mm fans/motors in the bottom drawer...and decided it was time for another twin....this time I buried the fans in the wing plates.....haven't started on her yet, so I haven't found the "uh-oohs"..but I'll build her next...Continue Reading
Posted by Old_Pilot | Nov 21, 2016 @ 08:28 AM | 9,293 Views
L 19 Maiden (5 min 36 sec)

Posted by Old_Pilot | Nov 16, 2016 @ 04:34 PM | 10,018 Views
Just keeping busy.......My first attempt at this little girl was a disaster. It ended up with 6 degrees of "UP" built in to the airframe because I failed to notice the decalage in addition to the incidence of the original FF design......So I found the original full scale drawings of the L-19 and scaled it down to...Continue Reading
Posted by Old_Pilot | Nov 13, 2016 @ 08:40 AM | 8,398 Views
This morning's discovery.......a trimmed McAlister cup is the perfect efflux cone for a 90 mm fan
Posted by Old_Pilot | Nov 10, 2016 @ 06:27 PM | 8,709 Views
just for fun

Delta Combat (2 min 34 sec)

Posted by Old_Pilot | Nov 05, 2016 @ 02:52 PM | 8,038 Views
Gonna take the original 12" WS, rubber powered, free flight Frog Mk-4 Interceptor and turn her into a 60" 5 channel RC.......with one major change....I'm going to build her as a parasol....the shoulder wing version has already been done......

This will serve as the build log for my entry into BBCC 8......based on these drawings.....

I added the history behind the Mk-IV........