Official FMS 1500mm P-47D Razorback Thread

[jetfool]

Davegee,
30-40 years ago I wanted to compete with K Walters, A Johnson, Platt and all you other guys but raising kids and job didn't allow that. Now at my age I enjoy just being involved in the contests and fly-ins. There are a lot of scale meets in our area and it's fun to see if I can at least fly and not make a fool of myself. Scale people are great!
Best Regards, Rex

[davegee]

Davegee,
30-40 years ago I wanted to compete with K Walters, A Johnson, Platt and all you other guys but raising kids and job didn't allow that. Now at my age I enjoy just being involved in the contests and fly-ins. There are a lot of scale meets in our area and it's fun to see if I can at least fly and not make a fool of myself. Scale people are great!
Best Regards, Rex

Totally understand, Rex. Have a great day!

Cheers

davegee

[vrosi1963]

This is how the bottom frame outline should look per my opinion of all the real p47 images i have seen .i did scribe the lower outline into the plug ,we will see how defined it comes out for Dave soon

[Elbee]

davegee

You might find this video helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WGrk4mkJtM

CARF P-47 Bubble-Top Canopy Slide Build 2026.

Fairly straight forward and nothing new in technique, but a nice reference IMHO.

Best, LB

[davegee]

davegee

You might find this video helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WGrk4mkJtM

CARF P-47 Bubble-Top Canopy Slide Build 2026.

Fairly straight forward and nothing new in technique, but a nice reference IMHO.

Best, LB

Thanks, Elbee. Really helps to have a much larger airframe to get all this stuff to fit in! Since my fuselage doesn't have any openings to access the things like the linear servo, and since at this point I'd like to avoid cutting out a big hatch in the bottom of the fuse (subject to change if I need to) I'm going to look into putting my linear servo in the front of the canopy instead of pulling/pushing from the rear. There is more room and easier to access the servo if need be just removing the cockpit hatch that the servo is anchored to.

It is possible I might use the technique he used on his CARF with the servo behind the cockpit, but I'll play around with it once I get the canopy from James to see which way to go. For the time being, I plan on using a U-shaped wire that attaches the linear servo arm to each side of the sliding canopy in the front. I'll just have to play around with it to see which way works the best.

I had not thought of the idea of cutting a hatch in the bottom of the fuse like he has, but I'll keep that in my mind as one of the ways to do this.

Cheers

davegee