E-flite 1.2m P-39

[davegee]

Here you go Dave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-x5mRK5FAM

Thanks! What an ingenious breakthrough for painting foam planes!

Cheers

davegee

[davegee]

Many more mods now completed. Getting ever close to paint.

- Extended the nose gear out to scale. Created a new nose strut based around the Freewing Panther main strut wing and machined a nose gear fork to fit it.

- Added 2 5g servos for the nose doors. All efforts to trigger then mechanically triggered the shutoff current for the retract.

- Designed and installed inner gear doors (mechanically triggered by main retracts)

- Designed new more scale looking split flaps

- Designed new spinner with a more correct outline.

F106DD: do you know which unit flew this aircraft and where they were based in WWII? The pilot who flew a famous iconic P-51D named LOU IV that I did earlier flew P-39s out of bases in Asia, just curious if there might be some tie-in there.

Cheers

davegee

[F106DeltaDart]

F106DD: do you know which unit flew this aircraft and where they were based in WWII? The pilot who flew a famous iconic P-51D named LOU IV that I did earlier flew P-39s out of bases in Asia, just curious if there might be some tie-in there.

Cheers

davegee

The P-400 that I modeled was based on Guadalcanal with the 67th Fighter Squadron. Great article on its exploits here: https://armahobbynews.pl/en/blog/202...l-70049-70057/. They were quite successful in the ground and shipping attack role, and the one I modeled also had a air-to-air kill of a rufe.

[jetfool]

F106DD,
Plane looks great! I had a new one and my test pilot took off and it was proposing up and down. He was really fighting it but every time he corrected the c/g shifted. It was a total loss. post mortem- We think the battery tray had not locked in and every time he tried to climb the battery slid back. It damaged fus. and wings beyond fixing. $300 dollar mis-adventure. Loved the plane.
I do have several parts that I salvaged, cockpit, stab/ele, etc for free, and if you you can use these your more than welcome to them. No charge except shipping. Pm if interested
Best Regards, Rex

[davegee]

The P-400 that I modeled was based on Guadalcanal with the 67th Fighter Squadron. Great article on its exploits here: https://armahobbynews.pl/en/blog/202...l-70049-70057/. They were quite successful in the ground and shipping attack role, and the one I modeled also had a air-to-air kill of a rufe.

Yes, that was the same unit! The pilot who later flew LOU IV in England was Col. TJJ "Jack" Christian, Jr., and flew the P-400s for 18 months before getting sent stateside for reassignment. He was tapped as the new CO of the 361st Fighter Group, based out of Bottisham,England. He was killed while leading a dive bombing attack on Nazi held train terminus in northern France on August 12, 1944. I sold my E Flite P-51D to the author of a huge book called "The Blood of Stonewall" which details the life of Stonewall Jackson and all who came after him, like Jack Christian, Jr., who was his great-grandson.

Quite a coincidence.

Cheers

davegee

[F106DeltaDart]

Very cool Dave, that is quite the coincidence! Your Lou IV turned out beautiful too!

Sorry to hear about that Rex, but I'm more than happy to take any leftover parts that survived. Not much in the way of spares left for these, so its a good precaution. Will be double checking my battery tray on maiden day though for sure!

[davegee]

Very cool Dave, that is quite the coincidence! Your Lou IV turned out beautiful too!

Sorry to hear about that Rex, but I'm more than happy to take any leftover parts that survived. Not much in the way of spares left for these, so its a good precaution. Will be double checking my battery tray on maiden day though for sure!

Here's a photo of Christian, Jr (seated) and another pilot when they were flying P-400s early in the war. They were sporting beards at that time!

Good luck with your Airacobra maiden when it comes up. I'm sure you'll get some fabulous in-air pics!

Cheers

davegee