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Posted: June/27/2016 at 7:28am  Quote
 
This plane is modeled after the WWI ace Capt. Stuart Harvey Pratt’s aircraft.
Country England
Unit 46
Victories 7
Born June 1893
Place of birth, Streatham, Surrey
 
Pratt was wounded in action whislt serving with the Royal Fusiliers in France.
He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in June 1916 and was posted to 46 Squadron in August 1916.
 
Flying a Nieuport Two-seater, Pratt scored his first victory in February 1917, downing an Albatross DIII
flown by Hans von Keudell, leader of Jasta 27.
 
He was flying the pup A7327 when scoring his next six kills, they were all Albatrosses, four DIII’s a DV and a DFW C.
 
Having been posted to home defense, Pratt lost his right eye and left foot in a crash on August 31, 1917 at Herne Bay.
 
He was invalided out of service due to ill health in December 1918.
 
He later became an instructor during WWII.
 
The Sopwith Pup was a small fighter derived from a single seat runabout.
It had an 80 HP Clerget and later an 80 HP LeRhone engine, also a 100 HP engine was used later in the war.
 
Wingspan:   26.6 ft.
Length:        19.4 ft.
Height:        9.4 ft.
Weight:       1230 lbs.
Top Speed:  107 mph.
 
This 1/3 scale pup was built from a Balsa USA kit with many modifications to make it more scale.
 
It has a Zenoah Gt-80 engine
Wingspan:    108 inches
Length             77 inches
Height:          ; ;  37 inches
Weight:          ; ; 44 lbs.
 
Covered in Solartex and the roundels were hand painted.
The aircraft was painted with latex matched to paint samples that were supplied from the Hendon Museum
in London England, and authenticated by Mick Reeves.
The wing covering was hand stitched.
The fuselage side covering was also stitched after installing the eyelets.
The flying wires were made from flat stainless steel to simulate the actual flying wires of the original.
The flying wires were also attached to the landing gear through the lower wing as was the original.
The landing gear was welded up using tubing and plans supplied by Mick Reeves.

This photo was taken at the Blue Max contest in Sanford FL.
The fog was lifting fast so I didn't have time to install my scale propeller that I hand carved.
I'm kind of proud of this one. Thank you for letting me post and brag a little which I normally don't do......Ron
I don't know how to do multiple photos, also if I make the photo larger it won't let me load it, I don't know how you guys get large photos on here.







 
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Posted: June/27/2016 at 8:28am  Quote
 
Here ya go

2. How do I upload a picture into my post?
Once you have started typing your post and you want to add an image to your post simply press the [ENTER] key twice (to move the cursor below your text) and click the image upload button on the editor toolbar  to bring up the image upload dialog box. Before that, there are a couple of things you need to know. First, we only accept .jpg and .gif format images. Secondly, all images must be under 125K in file size. You can use an image editing program such as PhotoRazor (for windows) or iResize (for Macs) to resize and adjust the resolution of the image. How to do this is outside the scope of this FAQ and you should consult someone with the appropriate knowledge if you are not familiar with editing images. NOTE: Make sure the image width is no greater than 900 pixels wide so not to throw the page width layout out of alignment.

Next press the [Enter] key at least twice after your text or between images (or the text will wrap around the image) and click on the image upload button. Then you will be prompted to select a local file to upload by clicking on the "Browse" button in the file upload window. After selecting the file to upload click the "Ok" button to start the upload. Once it is complete you should see the image in the edit window.

Also Mike made a You tube on how to do it.

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Posted: June/27/2016 at 2:50pm  Quote
 

I will try again, I'm getting used to this, this one is better......Thank you Mark





 
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Posted: June/27/2016 at 6:23pm  Quote
 
Ron,

Wow!, that is a gorgeous airplane.

Patrick,
Wentzville, MO.



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Posted: June/28/2016 at 6:45am  Quote
 

Thank You Patrick, it has everything the full size plane did except the band around the cowl to hold it on, I couldn't cut into that hard cowl to do that, I had to heat the cowl in order to straighten out the BUSA cowl to match the original and add that reinforcing band on the front of the cowl, plus the cowl is a little thin.

I have the prop nut on backwards because I just put the scale prop on to see what it would look like, any questions, I would be happy to answer them.....Ron





 
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Posted: June/28/2016 at 6:58am  Quote
 

Here is another slightly different angle showing more fog as it was lifting a neat photo.



 
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Wow. Doesn't that look awesome. Well done.
 
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Posted: June/30/2016 at 10:54am  Quote
 

That's a beautiful plane and a great picture! You need to make a big print of it and frame it.

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