Scale Plans built P-51

Steve your build is looking good. Have those retracts showed up yet?

Looking good. Keep up the good work.

wesley. said:

Steve your build is looking good. Have those retracts showed up yet?

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Not yet. Supposedly, they're waiting on the tail wheel retract. Hopefully they'll show up next week. An employee named Eric said he would check and call me with a shipping date. He took my number, but never called. So I'm relegated to waiting.

ericb said:

Looking good. Keep up the good work.

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Thanks Eric. I've spent a lot of time lately measuring and trying to figure out what to do next.

Just got an update from Robart - they're going to ship my retracts on the 18th!

In the mean time, I've been working on some of the details like the cowl hold down and getting shape of the front a little closer to right. I'll post some pics later this evening. Hope you enjoy them.

Here's a couple of pics of the retracts. I just got a message from Robart that they have been shipped and are sceduled to be delivered this Saturday! I've not worked on the Mustang for a couple of days while waiting on these to arrive. As soon as they get here, I'm likely to go on a building binge, especially since this next week is springbreak. There has to be some advantage to working in a school district and this is one of them.

I was out flying a couple of weeks ago and lost my favorite sport plane. My brother and I built giant "scale" Tiger IIs with gas engines. I made a flyby and saw the vertical stabilizer fluttering. I landed and checked everything out and there wasn't any apparent damage or loose surfaces so I thought, "OK, it was an anomally". I remember thinking that I should just load it up and go home and try to find out what the issue was. But then the little red guy that sits on my left shoulder said, no, go ahead and make one more flight, just take it easy and then you can go fix it. Don't listen to the little red guy. You'll have more to fix. I came out of a big loop, the tail fluttering. I entered the landing pattern, but it was too late, the tail separated and after that, the whole plane just started disintegrating. After the tail, one of the wing panels bailed out which opened up the fuselage and all I could do was throttle back, cut the engine, and watch. I put all of the trash into a pile in the back of the shop and let all sit there until a couple of days ago. I started pulling out the equipment and checking to see if any of the electronics were broken or if the engine was going to beed some attention. Everything seemes to be fine. The servos all checked out, battery pack was good, receiver was OK. Then I started sorting out the pieces of the fuselage. Hmmmm, this piece goes here, this went here. a little CA and this goes here. Hey, I'm not going to have to throw it in the dumpster after all. I've still got a long way to go, but she will fly again!!

Maybe the giant Tiger II will be a good build thread. Super easy to build, a blast to fly.

The retracts finally showed up!! And yes, we did have another discussion. Rather than just tell you about them, I thought I would show a video of the first operation.

that catch is not normal. it should not do that. it should be nice and smooth.

I have a small set in a P-40 and they do work smoothly. I'm going to see if I can fix it without sending them back.