Bach that is some Corsair. One of my favorite planes. And scratch built... a lot more work then a kit. I got a lot of respect for you there. What did the full scale have for a prop.. 13 feet? Big engine. A friend of mine has the plans for a 1/4 scale PBY5a that we were to build. We just never got to it. Someday maybe.

Originally Posted by Bach

I'm a fixed wing nut. tried heli but preferred fixed. I'm mostly into pattern and scale. used to compete in FAI 3A and giant scale. Here is one of my latest projects, a 98" scratch built Corsair. The light blue/grey is actually about 10 different shades to get the weathered effect.

WOW. Great attention to detail. Send more progress pics. Very very nice brudda.

Originally Posted by Beaverbreath

Bach that is some Corsair. One of my favorite planes. And scratch built... a lot more work then a kit. I got a lot of respect for you there. What did the full scale have for a prop.. 13 feet? Big engine. A friend of mine has the plans for a 1/4 scale PBY5a that we were to build. We just never got to it. Someday maybe.

Looks like a F4U-1 "Birdcage" Corsair to me. Prop diameter was 13' 4" (according to Squadron Signals "F4U Corsari in Action") and was the largest or one of the largest ever installed on a WWII fighter. Very nice work Bach!

Tony

My father got me into control line aircraft at about the age of 9 and this progressed to radio control models back when i was about 12. This followed onto my work life as my very first job was a storeman for Futaba Sales. At the time this was the largest modelling supplier in Australia by a long shot and also about the only radio gear available apart from JR.
Here started the collection of almost anything that i could get my hands on that was radio controlled. Land Yacht, Car, Yacht, Gliders, boat, powered models and about the only things that eluded me were the submarine and tank. But i had my bosses 1/8 scale tank to play with so no harm or foul there..

Hmmm Helicopters. for those that are interested and reading this but not into the hobby yet.

These are the most difficult of all the radio control models to learn how to successfully operate.

Either
A) a lot of time needs to be spent on a simulator that closely emulates how a radio heli will fly in a realistic manner.
Note that simulator time never ends even when you know the basics you learn the next step on the simulator before risking the model.

B) a person with sufficient experience flying heli's to instruct you (preferably with the buddy system. where 2 transmitters are linked and the instructors transmitter overrides the students control)

Preferable Both A and B

Most clubs have a training process and you wont be alowed to fly solo without first proving minimum capabilities. Last club i belonged to required the pilot to be able to prove Take off, Square run around the field maintaining altitiude a figure 8 and landing. And for heli then take off, hover, figure 8 with both tail toward and away
from the pilot and landing

The only other alternative is C

C) a large bank balance to be able to purchase and replace the plethora of parts you are going to break.

I had the opportunity to stand right behind the wing about 2 feet away from the fuselage on a full scale Corsair when they started the engine up. Freakin awesome!! Watching that huge prop slowly rotate and then start to jerk as one or two cylinders "caught" was fantastic. Because they load the cylinders with fuel (primer pump) the engine makes nice big puffs of smoke when it catches. These puffs sailed along the fuse and right by me! Way kewl. Even with the engine just idling the wind blast was strong enough to lean against. I loved the way the whole plane just seemed to shake with the engine and propwash, and come alive. I still remember that experience many many years later. It must have been something to have 40 or so of them warming up around you on a carrier deck (along with the other planes too).

Oh my God Bach keep talking. I can only imagine the thrill, smell of fuel in the air, the rumble. I have stood in one place at an airshow for an hour to watch them fire up a plane from behind a rope barrier. Hahahaha Help me guys I have been trying to remember the name of the old 30 size chopper I had. My mind is blank. It was started by a belt that you then tucked up in the frame. I had a hard time getting parts as the story was Udisco controlled the rights to import the chopper and parts into Canada. It was about the time Kyosho Concept chopper was released.

Originally Posted by Beaverbreath

I have been trying to remember the name of the old 30 size chopper I had. My mind is blank. .

Possibly the raptor 30

OMG - Udisco - what a bunch of crooks!!! They had total rights to Futaba and OS (and a few others) in Canada and ripped everybody off. You couldn't buy a non Udisco Futaba radio because supposedly they did not have a DOT sticker because they were different - bull shite. I remember importing a Futaba (G series I think) and being told by my local shop that my US cost price plus duty etc was still below dealer cost in Ontario from Udisco. I think it was Jim Ewing over in Charlottetown who broke their monopoly (although I could be wrong). Jim owns Great Hobbies now. I used to shop in his basement store at his parents house when I lived in PEI. I was in Mount Hope (Canadian Warplane Heritage) the night they had the first hangar fire. I helped pull the WW II aircraft out of the building that was burning in the back. Another freakin awesome memory!! It's too bad they had a second fire and were not so lucky (restored Hurricane, and Seafire in progress). I hate to see it when one of these beautiful machines is lost forever. There is a little town called Fingal about 25 minutes from here. The old bomber training base is now a provincial wildlife preserve and I love to go for walks there. The runways have been removed (car racing problems) and the hangars etc are gone, but it is easy to see where everything was, and to walk the old runways. It is overgrown with beautiful trees etc and is very beautiful. They flew Lysanders, Battles and I think Bolingblokes (Blenheims). They trained gunners, and bombadiers there. When I taught at Springfield my class would do a memorial for the 40 odd young men who died training at the local airbase there (now the police college). We would make a really large map of the area, and then the kids made little Harvards with the names of the men on them. The kids then put the Harvards on the map where they died, while I would read their names andthe reason for the crash and date to the school.. Kinda brought it home to them.

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Originally Posted by Bach

I'm a fixed wing nut. tried heli but preferred fixed. I'm mostly into pattern and scale. used to compete in FAI 3A and giant scale. Here is one of my latest projects, a 98" scratch built Corsair. The light blue/grey is actually about 10 different shades to get the weathered effect.

That looks fantastic!...
I like the detail...reminds me of my brothers workspace..he was building fully functional and rather large scale vessels like a mirage 2000 from scratch or he repaired RC models that went down the forest because they ran out of fuel being out of RC range...
(the mirage never managed to fly...turboprop engines were not available that time)