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Posted: 03/April/2017 at 10:28am  Quote
 


My latest project to finish. I built it for a fellow club member. Bought the kit for him in Owatonna, MN last August, finished about three weeks ago. Maiden was last Friday and she flew.....well.....like a BUSA kit! Austin said it had no bad qualities in the air. On thing that did go wrong was the canister connection came loose. We thought we had it fixed a few days later only to have it throw the connection between the header and canister off again. We're still head scratching that and have a higher heat rated connector ordered.
Yeah, that's my ugly mug with the plane. Pics were taken by Mike Pennell.

Here are the specs:

BUSA kit
Solartex covering 
latex paint (all hand painted)
Zenoah G62 with reduction gear drive (2.5 to 1)
34"x 20 prop
32 oz fuel tank
Williams Brothers wheels
Iflytailies guns and ammo feeds and ammo
Aces of Iron pilot
wing skids are scratch built
kit cowl with aluminum front customization
And....NO ADDED BALAST!!!  






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Flying: 1/4 BUSA Cub, 1/4 BUSA Nieuport 11
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Building: 1/3 BUSA DVII for a club member
 
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Posted: 04/April/2017 at 7:26am  Quote
 
Looks fantastic. Well done

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A lot of work and a very nice aircraft, where would we be without our good friends.

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Posted: 29/April/2017 at 8:17pm  Quote
 

Awesome looking triplane! Beautiful job.

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Really Nice!
Give me your address Ill send you a few projects!
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Posted: 01/May/2017 at 7:23am  Quote
 
Here's a short video of the DRI flown by Austin Chadwick and a 1/3 scale DVII flown by Mike Pennell. They are both powered by the same engine/drive/prop combo. The DVII is 42lbs., the DRI is 37lbs.
It was on a day in between the over 9" of rain the last week and a half so the lights not great.



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Flying: 1/4 BUSA Cub, 1/4 BUSA Nieuport 11
On Hold: 1/4 SS DIII, 1/4 Sopwith Baby
Building: 1/3 BUSA DVII for a club member
 
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