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Avatar User Offline larry b
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Posted: 08/July/2014 at 7:54am  Quote
 
Very nice! Don't feel bad about the nose weight, I ran into a modeler down at Top Gun flying a Mick Reeves Sopwith Camel and he had 13lbs in the nose of his model. Remember those WWI airplanes that were powered by a rotary engine had no nose on them!
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Posted: 09/July/2014 at 8:10pm  Quote
 
Nice, Claude, looks great.  Appears to fly with a bit more authority then the ones I have seen with a direct drive G62 in the nose.

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Posted: 15/September/2014 at 3:06pm  Quote
 
UPDATE:

I moved the weight off the firewall to the dummy engine and front lip of the cowl. Shed just over 2 pounds off of her and she flies even better!

Now I can take her to Dayton!! 


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Posted: 15/September/2014 at 4:34pm  Quote
 
Claude,
How did you attach the cowl to the firewall so it supports all that weight. I have a plane that can use that technique but I am afraid it could pull the cowl on a hard landing - of course I never do that.


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Posted: 14/October/2014 at 4:15pm  Quote
 
Sorry Vicar, I just now saw your post. I used socket head servo screws, about 30 or so. I had used them for the metal panels and sanded down the heads. They looked really good so I used them for the cowl also, but did not sand them down.

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