Great Job Mr. Beta Tester! You will get it figured out. Rex
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The lower leg on the gear. Is a little weak ... Hollow cast... My friend has broken 2 of them.. to be fair he is new to taildrag warbirds.. but I saw one landing and was shocked that it brokeComment
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Hi Rex: great to see you online again. Haven’t seen any of your posts for a little while. These tanks, especially the larger 110 gallon models are a process. The only problem remaining is keeping them from getting damaged or destroyed upon landing on “Mars. “ (My wife and I joke how hard and tough the ground is here, with very little moisture.) I’m thinking I might have CraftCloud make a couple from Dan’s STLs like we did for the P-47 centerline drop tank. That thing is practically indestructible! If not that method, possibly getting a foam copy fabricated somehow. We’ll see…
cheers
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Davegee,
I've been flying a lot and little shop time. Will get back on the Phantom this fall for Toledo 27. Kinda ran out of workshop steam last March. I plan to test fly my P-47 and FL P-38 in the next few weeks. I have them set up on my new Specktrum 8+ and have been flying a E-Flite Air Tractor 1.5m to get used to the new radio. Bought the Air Tractor July 4 and have 40 flights on it. I am keeping up on your progress weekly.
Hope FL introduces some new Warbirds 1.6m this year. Not real interested in the small one, hard to see for me.
A friend of mine is learning to fly EDF jets and in 4 weeks totaled out 2 and just orders another one. On his 3rd one in 4 weeks. Wish I had his money(he's still working for his hobby money)
Best Regards, RexComment
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Good deal. For your Phantom, would you be interested in printed missiles for the bottom of the fuselage? I had these on my F-4 for many years until it crashed years ago. I can send you a pic PM if you are interested. They fit into the grooves on the bottom of the fuse with magnets. If you don't want them that's fine. But I can send them to you for free if you do. Otherwise, I'll probably just throw them out. They look good, I think. I think one is missing a small fin but that would be easy to replace with styrene plastic cut to fit.
Cheers
DavegeeComment
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Good question. We took measurements from a accurate model that had these tanks, and that's what they were when scaled up. But that will be one of the things we'll revisit to be sure they are the correct size before we proceed further. They do look a bit oversized when compared to your pic.
Thanks for the input, we'll examine this to see how to proceed on with this project. A bit smaller would be good as less drag and less weight.
Cheers
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Hi Nuts-n- Volts: I did check the size of those 110 gallon tanks that we fabricated. The Flightline P-51D 1.6M airplane is 1/7 scale. The real 110 gallon drop tanks were about 100 inches long and 21 inches in diameter. My model tank is 14.4 inches long (versus real scale 14.28 inches long) and mine is 3.3 inches in diameter at the widest part (versus 3 inches for the real thing in 1/7 scale.) So it is slightly larger than scale. I think it might have "grown" a bit during our planning but it's not terribly far off. If we get some printed, we'll make sure they are 3 inches in diameter and about 14.3 inches long, per scale.
Cheers
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