Official FlightLine RC 1600mm P-38 Lightning Thread

[crxmanpat]

The great thing about this event is that it is always very well documented by several skilled photographers. And we continue to get pics from them weeks, and sometimes months, after the event.

[cmk-2]

Thanks for the info on the upgraded struts..I'll keep checking.

[Fast Eddie]

Hello everyone,
Ths is my first post here. I'm in the process of assembling the P38. Had a bad motor right out of the box and Motion has replacement in route. Defective bearing.
I have read every post on this thread and seen about all videos posted. Been taking all the advice and been putting it to use with the assembly and mods. Going to install the FL strut upgrade when back in stock, hopefully on the next container
in the meantime, I airbrushed the plain stock struts and touched up with light weathering

Here are a few pics of progress

[Dewey H Lee]

Welcome to the fourm.beautiful work.

[downwindleg]

Hey Fast Eddie, +1 on the welcome and the workmanship. I'm curious about your stand. It seems to work great and I'm thinking about doing something similar but just wondering why you didn't join the two parts of the stand together at the bottom for instance or is it a space issue? I see you have foam on the lower part of the stand as well. Is that for supporting the wings when the plane is inverted in the stand? Just wondering, Brad

[dkalwishky]

downwindleg; here is the stand I made.

http://www.hobbysquawk.com/forum/rc-airplanes/the-hangar/49981-pvc-stand-for-my-flrc-p-38

[Lon]

Hey Fast Eddie, +1 on the welcome and the workmanship. I'm curious about your stand. It seems to work great and I'm thinking about doing something similar but just wondering why you didn't join the two parts of the stand together at the bottom for instance or is it a space issue? I see you have foam on the lower part of the stand as well. Is that for supporting the wings when the plane is inverted in the stand? Just wondering, Brad

This stand works great for me. Easy to flip the plane over and place on it. And works great with my other single engine planes.

[Fast Eddie]

The plane fits in the cradles inverted as well. the stand was going to be one piece but i glued a tee on wrong, so ended up with two.
The bottom padded section is for the wings when not attached
One thing to remember when gluing your stand together is to work on a hard flat surface and keep everything square so the stand does not wobble when completed.

[Fast Eddie]

This stand works great for me. Easy to flip the plane over and place on it. And works great with my other single engine planes.

That works even better,

[Lon]

Here's a shot of the 38 loaded in the back of the Traverse with the stand. Yes, weather is great. Loading up the 38 and 86 for some flights now!!

[Grossman56]

This stand works great for me. Easy to flip the plane over and place on it. And works great with my other single engine planes.

Yep, Lon's design is great, we took pics of it at Nefi and Diane made me on for my planes.

Grossman56

[Aros]

Nice work and welcome Fast Eddie! Great shots Pat!

[BadBob]

For those confused about the screw designations, this from Motion:

The PA screws have the wood thread, the PM's use a machine thread and the PT's are are for plastic. The number is the length of the screw for all of them. Look at the chart I found as it may help but the PT does not appear on there. You have to count them out first and kinda of deduce from there what is what.

[Fast Eddie]

Nice work and welcome Fast Eddie! Great shots Pat!

Thank you Aros, I hope to maiden as soon as I get the replacement motor from Motion

[Tsmith]

Here's my post in another thread of my pvc stand for the P38

http://www.hobbysquawk.com/forum/rc-...r-my-flrc-p-38

scroll down to post 14

[Grossman56]

Looks good Tsmith,welcome to the forum as well!!

Grossman56

[Fast Eddie]

Maiden today went great. No inflight trim necessary. All control surface settings set up per manual.
checked all hardware after landing and all was tight and secure. Will post video after I get You Tube set up
Now I am just waiting for the strut upgrade to be back in stock

[Fast Eddie]

Can anybody help where I can find the Aluminum screen material ( square patches ) for covering the engine cowls and radiators
I appreciate it
Thanks
Eddie

[BadBob]

Can anybody help where I can find the Aluminum screen material ( square patches ) for covering the engine cowls and radiators
I appreciate it
Thanks
Eddie

Got mine at Ace Hardware. I had to buy a small roll tho. You can even try Lowe's or Home Depot.

[Fast Eddie]

Got mine at Ace Hardware. I had to buy a small roll tho. You can even try Lowe's or Home Depot.

I tried Home Depot and Lowe's, only had black. Will try Ace

Thanks
Eddie