Official FlightLine RC 2000mm B-24D/J Liberator Thread

[zorkahn]

In your second pic, just to the left of the plastic mounting tab, the rear hole is there covered by a piece of tape. Pull the tape off to expose the hole. You should still have two carbon fiber wing tubes. If you don't have the smaller one, submit a support ticket with Motion to have one sent out.

Check the outer edges of the foam packing for the two wing tubes. They are not together in the same location.

Mark

[crxmanpat]

In your second pic, just to the left of the plastic mounting tab, the rear hole is there covered by a piece of tape. Pull the tape off to expose the hole. You should still have two carbon fiber wing tubes. If you don't have the smaller one, submit a support ticket with Motion to have one sent out.

[ArielCrusader]

Design Change Made in the B-24?

Ordered my B-24 drab green on 2/8/18 and received it 2/13/18 and in good order. Kudos to MRC for a well-packaged quick shipment!

I haven't yet begun my assembly but I did look through the package and all included components. I noticed in watching Pilot Ryan's build video (a great vid, Ryan! Thanks! I'll be watching it when I begin my assembly!) that there were two pieces of carbon fiber (CF) support tubing used to attached the main wings to the fuse. Mine only came with one. The fuse now only has the one hole toward the front of the fuse wing attachment area to run the tubing through. There is no hole at all now at the rear of the fuse where the wings attach as Pilot Ryan's video showed. There is, however, a short piece of CF support tubing INSIDE the fuse where hole once existed. In what I received the rear holes for the CF support tubing DO still exist in the wings.

Not sure if this will be a strength issue but thought I'd note that I noticed the change in design. With the wingspan being 79", quite a wide span, will one less support tube affect the strength? Flightline and MRC may have felt the additional horizontal tube at the rear was no longer needed. I'm relatively new to RC flying so I don't speak from experience but only in what I've visually observed.

[stu]

Anyone wanting an idea to make the ball turret this is what I came up with . Walmart sell a plastic light bulb filled with paper clips and when I cut it down its perfect either as a full turret or just half if you dont want to alter the fuselage ....See Photos will post more photos as its finished

[dahawk]

Thanks, Yeah, I had seen that and I get how he did it. Not a bad solution. I have the MAS props ready to go but was thinking about simply cutting off the stock props with my Dremel where the yellow meets the black, about 1/2 inch. So, 8.5" square props.

Hawk

[Prowler901]

There are some folks on RC Groups who have installed MAS 8x6's (primarily because they are concerned with prop-strikes). And the flight reports have been good. You will need to make some modifications for them to go on the prop adapter.

Here's a link to how one guy did it. https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...postcount=1908

[Bigrc2]

Apollo Field in Van Nuys, Ca is having a Poker Fun Fly event this Sat., Feb.17th. I'll be flying my B-24 without any spare props (MRC has been out of stock on both standard and reverses). I was wondering if MAS 9x7 3 blades would work. I have both stlye left over from a HK B-17 I use to fly. Has anyone tried to use MAS props?

[Bigrc2]

With MRC being out of stock on both reverse and standard props for the '24, I was wondering if MAS 9x7 three blades would work. Apollo Field in Van Nuys, CA is having a Poker Fun Fly event this weekend and I may try a set. BTW, they're the same props I've used on a HK B-17.

[Pheonix]

I will definitely do my measurements. I started building last night and got as far as the tail feathers before hand fatigue set in. I am taking my time on this one. I might try the moving gun mounts since I have a 14-channel radio.

[spec450]

That was very touching. Will share with my 93 rd Bombardment reunion group.

From Castle?? I used to volunteer there a couple years ago before work changed and I wasnt able to keep going

[stu]

Thanks Callie ! That would be mine.

I went with Tupelo Lass from the 93rd Bombardment Group , 409th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force. Had an awesome career. Many of the very early arrivals in 1942 were plain Jane's, lacking some of the fancy nose art that evolved throughout the war. The Brits actually flew them in combat before our guys even got there.

My Dad was a Tech Sarge in ground support mainly. Though he flew some missions as crew chief on occasion when needed. Equivalent of what an A&P would be today. Not 100% sure if he actually worked on the Tupelo Lass but seeing as she was in his squadron for his service duration, I'm sure he knew her nevertheless.

I've been inside the B-24 at Pima in Tucson. Hard to imagine what it must have been like with 10 guys on board. Pretty tight getting around.

The 93rd was known as "Ted's Traveling Circus" as they commuted between Hardwick and N. Africa several times. One of the early groups to arrive in April of 1942. Tupelo Lass survived operation Tidal Wave ( Ploesti) where on August 1 they took off from Benghazi and returned safely to Libya. This would be remembered as Black Sunday for the severe losses of that mission. Returning to Hardwick they continued raids on Germany, France and Holland until the end of the ETO operations. On December 11th, 1943, one day before his 22nd birthday, she crashed landed at Hardwick after returning from a bombing mission over Emben/ Danzig. A lot of crash landings there. IMC there most of the time and many came back on a wing and a prayer with barely survivable battle damage. Luckily she was salvaged.


It will be interesting to see how the likes of master modelers Tired Iron and RCjetdude capture the Bombay doors on this model. They were not the normal swing open clam shell type operating like gear doors rather they traveled up and down as part of the fuse. Kind of like the door of an old bread box moving on ways. The bomb racks held (4) 1,600 # bombs per side. A pretty big payload in those days. Add in the (11) 50 cal. machine guns and ammo. And then fly at 300 mph.

Not sure about navigation landing,position or formation lights. According to Taz101(Lurch) over on RCG, there were quite a few lights:

*The landing lights are retractable and situated just in front of the landing gear.

*Nav lights consisted of your normal Red/Green on the wing tips. They where inlaid into the top (And bottom on some models) like the P-38s. And they had white running lights on the outside of each vertical stab.

*Then you have the bomb lights on the back of the plane just under the rear turret. These consisted of a red and a white light.

*They also had the standard recognition/indentification lights.(NOT formation lights as most people call them) The Red/Green/Orange on the bottom of the plane between the front bomb bay doors. And a white light on the upper side of the fuse just near the whip antenna.

*It also had formation lights. These consisted of 4 lights on the horizontal plane (2 on each side of the fuse) and 3 lights on the top of the fuse, the rear most one starting just in front of the tail plane. All of these were blue.

*Then there was also a Red light placed on the leading edge of the left wing in between the two engines. This was called/known as a Passing Light.

Not sure what to do here. Quite a light board and a rats nest of wires to run. Anybody thinking about adding lights? Sure would be a cool adder.

I've been waiting for a foam B-24 a long time as this plane means a lot to me. Can't thank the Motion team enough.

As a current member of the 93rd, I will try to bring her to a reunion event. One of the few legacy USAAF groups around with only a few actual veterans still living. But the group lives on with the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren who want to preserve history and carry on the legacy for future generations. There's even an active museum on the property at Hardwick and a couple Facebook groups.

Anxious for tomorrow!

Hawk

I Am adding lights and HELL i didn't know there were so many but has anyone got any photos of all the lights ?? i ordered a sound system that has a bunch of lights with it so will see how that works out

cheers stu

[dahawk]

I wanted to leave this here for you guys. Enjoy




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcHNjzD18to

That was very touching. Will share with my 93 rd Bombardment reunion group.

[crxmanpat]

I think Barrett's scratch B-24 is 8' WS. He has done all the classic bombers, B-17, B-24, B-29 and B-36.

[Alpha]

Great skies for those smooth passes, Tony and Pat! What size was Barrett's B-24?

I thought for a moment that the F-16 was going to join up for a heritage formation pass!

[xplaneguy]

B-24 formation flight at the Arizona Electric Festival 2018.

[Sky Wolf]

Very well done video! Thanks for sharing.

[AkumaZeto]

I wanted to leave this here for you guys. Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcHNjzD18to

[crxmanpat]

I use Graphene 4000 45Cs as well. They are shoved back all the way to the plastic mount housing the forward wing spar. Maybe a touch nose heavy with them, but they're all I have at the moment that work. Flies just fine.

[xviper]

Me be finger tip guy as well. To do this I put one small drop of hot glue at C.G. location. In this case drops are on top of wing. Am using 4000ma Turnigy Graphene batteries in mine ,but bit heavier then others. Wanting my C.G. AT 3 1/4" did have to add 1.5 OZ. of tail weight which was easy to conceal at rear by opening up, relieving foam to accommodate and resealing opening with original foam.. donnie

I'm using the Admiral 4000's and Graphene 3000's. Surprisingly, those 2 brands of batteries are only with 10 grams of each other, nearly the same outer dimensions. I think your 4000 Graphenes are closer in weight to 4600 to 5000 non-Graphenes. My batteries are located at the front edge of the wood floor. I would have thought that yours could be shoved further back under that shelve where the servo board sits, thus negating the need for weights in the tail. Maybe the 4000 Graphenes are too tall?

[donnie]

When it comes to a PNP or even an ARF that has published recommendations for power, ESC, props, etc., I'm not sure how useful it is to know exactly how much the plane weighs. The manufacturer has done those calculations and tests to determine what will fly the plane nicely. We, the consumer can work off what's in the plane when we start to mod. Maybe when we do a custom scratch build, would it be of some use to know how much the plane weights. Regarding the CG and balancing, I've long since abandoned my store bought device. The 2 finger method has worked for me for almost all my planes. I was born with them and I always have them with me.

Me be finger tip guy as well. To do this I put one small drop of hot glue at C.G. location. In this case drops are on top of wing. Am using 4000ma Turnigy Graphene batteries in mine ,but bit heavier then others. Wanting my C.G. AT 3 1/4" did have to add 1.5 OZ. of tail weight which was easy to conceal at rear by opening up, relieving foam to accommodate and resealing opening with original foam.. donnie