Official FMS 1500mm P-47D Razorback Thread

[davegee]

Be my guest! works great on the P-47! It really is a great piece of designing by E Flite. Works every time. Same as my Flightline pylons for the P-51. They're not totally scale, but they work well and are fun to drop stuff off of!

Let me know how it goes or if you have any questions.

Cheers

Davegee

[jetfool]

Thanks, Davegee, just what I thought. Didn't know if you mounted yours flush but like how you did it. I'll steal your modification on mine.
Thanks, Rex

[davegee]

Davegee,
I received my e-flite payload release today. If you could take some pictures of your installation, I will have a better idea how to install. how did you make clearance for the manual release or do you just use the radio to open/close.
Best Regards, Rex

Hi Rex: It was pretty much straightforward process. I mounted the bomb drop in the area where the OEM drop tank holder was in place. Just carefully remove it and throw it away or whatever. Then, I carefully inserted an awl or some sharp instrument straight down (airplane upside down in cradle) until it pokes through the foam floor of the cockpit. Now you have a general area to where you want to dig into the model's fuselage and snake the wire into the cockpit and attach it to the receiver. On mine, I used channel 7 and assigned the pushbutton "I" also the bind button on the DX18. Carefully cut a rectangle through the foam that is just big enough to snugly fit the bomb drop mechanism. I don't remember how I fastened it in, I think it comes with a couple of wood screws, and maybe I glued a couple of wood pieces to screw into, whatever you want to do with that.

There is a manual release/loading switch on the side of the mount. ( You can alternatively try pushing the drop switch and that will cycle the pin back and forth if you can get in there quick enough to put your bomb mount in. That's hard to do and I usually don't try it, just do it manually.)You can see I had to dig out a little more foam to be sure I could move that lever to open the alley to put your drop tank in. That is usually best using some sort of tool like a pen, or some long skinny piece of steel like a hex wrench to hold the spring loaded pin in the open position. While holding that open, you can carefully put your tank that you glued or screwed the holding mechanism for the tank and then you can release the slide switch and the pin should engage through the hole n your mount that is attached to your tank and keep it in place. Sometimes you have to fiddle with it a bit to get it to engage. Once that is done, you are ready to fly and your assigned switch whatever you chose, can be activated to release the tank and it will spin to the ground, probably undamaged since it is so light.

I'll attach a few pics I just took for orientation. They are of my P-47 Hairless Joe. I have dropped a lot of tanks with it and it is always flawless. We also made a larger 150 gallon flat tank and it flies great with it and drops just as well, withou damage, although it is much heavier than the foam tanks..
Let me know how it goes and if you have any questions.

Have fun!!!

Cheers

Dave

[jetfool]

Davegee,
I received my e-flite payload release today. If you could take some pictures of your installation, I will have a better idea how to install. how did you make clearance for the manual release or do you just use the radio to open/close.
Best Regards, Rex

[davegee]

Yes Dave once wings are at the same point as the fuse all will have a final rub down. An even green coat overall then grey on the bottom invasion stripes. Matt clear. Onto graphics and electronics done I'm sure maiden will not be till next year. And thanx looks close. Matched it myself. Black green red oxide yellow Ochre bit of white b safe

you have the master's touch! Good work on the paint scheme!

Davegee

[f4u ausie]

Yes Dave once wings are at the same point as the fuse all will have a final rub down. An even green coat overall then grey on the bottom invasion stripes. Matt clear. Onto graphics and electronics done I'm sure maiden will not be till next year. And thanx looks close. Matched it myself. Black green red oxide yellow Ochre bit of white b safe

[davegee]

Coming along well, Craig! Looks like the correct shade of RAF Dark Green that the 78th FG used at that period of the war out of Duxford. Are you going to use RAF SKY color for the bottom of the aircraft??

Cheers

Davegee

[Elbee]

f4u ausie,

Nice work Craig.

She's a big girl.

Best, Steve

[jetfool]

f4u ausie,
Looking very good. We are starting to go into fall and you must be starting to enter early spring. Have a good season of flying.
Best Regards, Rex

[f4u ausie]

Hey team hope you all well and not cold just yet... I'm getting warm 🥵 er. Just couple pics. Of progress. ...

[f4u ausie]

They r even valuable and hard to find here. I was just lucky.. better lucky than good

[Elbee]

Very very nice. Hindsight is 20/20 vision. Would like to go back a pick all the Gold Edition TopFlite kits. Ah, woulda, shoulda, coulds...ya snooze, ya lose.

[f4u ausie]

Steve it's a gold edition 85 inch top flight. The one with tarheel hal on the box

[davegee]

Hey guys. Hope U all well. I've been busy.. now wrong Thread but close.. just couple pics 4 those that matter. Hence wrong Thread. U all no the drill. Rub rub rub. Bla bla bla. Happy with SNAFU progress.

Good progress on Snafu, Craig! Gonna be a beautiful looking and flying airplane when done.

Cheers

Davegee

[Elbee]

Hey guys. Hope U all well. I've been busy.. now wrong Thread but close.. just couple pics 4 those that matter. Hence wrong Thread. U all no the drill. Rub rub rub. Bla bla bla. Happy with SNAFU progress.

Craig,

Which manufacturer produced your P-47?

Great work by the way.

Best, Steve

[jetfool]

Lookin Good. Takes lots of elbow grease but you will have a beautiful plane when finished.

[f4u ausie]

Sorry double trouble

[f4u ausie]

Hey guys. Hope U all well. I've been busy.. now wrong Thread but close.. just couple pics 4 those that matter. Hence wrong Thread. U all no the drill. Rub rub rub. Bla bla bla. Happy with SNAFU progress.

[davegee]

Good deal!!!

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