27% 170B build
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Re: 27% 170B build
I think we need a new model section. I have two unbuilt Jetco 170s, one cruddy Guillow's kit, a Scienfic 170 c/l kit and an excellent Acme Aircraft electric kit. I don't have enough time for any of them and I am not getting any younger.
Pete Brown
Anchorage, Alaska
N4563C 1953 170B
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2366/2527 ... 4e43_b.jpg
Anchorage, Alaska
N4563C 1953 170B
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2366/2527 ... 4e43_b.jpg
Re: 27% 170B build
The Scientific kit was an .049 powered profile fuse, built up wing ~24" span kit which I flew when I was 14 or so. It was inspirational. Great flying if you three pointed it. They still show up on eBay from time to time.
The Acme C-170, now out of production, was a modern laser cut electric kit. Ultra high quality.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=512246
The Jetco kit was the most versatile. Its well engineered and makes a great two channel model and is fully suitable to electric conversion.
The Acme C-170, now out of production, was a modern laser cut electric kit. Ultra high quality.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=512246
The Jetco kit was the most versatile. Its well engineered and makes a great two channel model and is fully suitable to electric conversion.
Pete Brown
Anchorage, Alaska
N4563C 1953 170B
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2366/2527 ... 4e43_b.jpg
Anchorage, Alaska
N4563C 1953 170B
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2366/2527 ... 4e43_b.jpg
Re: 27% 170B build
Uh. your steering springs are installed wrong
Re: 27% 170B build
This balsa 170 is quite a project. Very interesting. I am amazed at the skills a lot of you have beyond flying your 170's and other aircraft. pdb, your comment, "Great flying if you three pointed it." Isn't that the proper way to land tail draggers I will bet it was a fast one too if it had any GREEN paint on it
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Re: 27% 170B build
Ah, that looks like a Maule. Will be be seeing one on 44C to it matches?
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Re: 27% 170B build
Dude, you're losing it.....and I love it!! Can't believe the detail your going after with that thing! Still planning on Columbia tomorrow if you have a flying airplane and can spare the time away from your project.
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Re: 27% 170B build
Put some JR equipment in there instead of Spektrum and you really would have something!
Great job so far, Arash! I'm really digging it.
Great job so far, Arash! I'm really digging it.
Re: 27% 170B build
Wow! Those look just like the glass ones on 81D!
Re: 27% 170B build
Be certain to use the proper wedges when you align your wheels.
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
Re: 27% 170B build
When I first looked at the picture of your wheel still in its SkyLite package I thought you were putting in a stall warning buzzer. And said to myself he won't be able to hear that on the ground .
John E. Barrett
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Re: 27% 170B build
Very nice flap action.
I like the way you doubled the rib with thin ply and then glued on the servo mount.
I like the way you doubled the rib with thin ply and then glued on the servo mount.
Charlie
1956 170B C-GDRG #27019
1956 170B C-GDRG #27019
Re: 27% 170B build
Why deploy the flaps at all? ... Why don't you just slip it?
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
Re: 27% 170B build
OK...so then... Maybe you can demonstrate why NOT to slip with full flaps!Aryana wrote:I've tried on some of my other models George, and from the ground it looks like a pilot incapacitation episode as the plane pitches and yaws all over the place!
(It'd be a shame to lose all that fine handi-work tho'...)
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
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Re: 27% 170B build
How are you going to do the corrugations in the control surfaces? 13/16" spacing will be about right for the scale you're building...
Miles
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“I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.”
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Re: 27% 170B build
Are you going to do the Dip Davis latches...?? or is this a later B-model?
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.