Scale 50% Dalotel 165

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Thanks guys, I really appreciate all the positive comments.

 

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The fun begins, just finished seperated all the main wings ribs and aileron ribs from the sheet plywood, now for the precision cut and sand

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wecoyote;8023 wrote: Glad you found us Roger

Did you ever find a buyer for your Pitts? This one is looking awsome as well.

I had two different buyers, but nothing panned out, so its in storage, while I do this one..

 

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I've always loved the looks of the Dalotel! Great build!

 

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Forgues Research;5692 wrote: Bart. the round dowels is to replicate the steel tubing fuselage. I am making this as scale as I possibly can, for a major contest.

I obtained all the drawings including sketches from Michel Dalotel, who designed it and build it in the late '60s. By working with the full size drawings, I simply redesigned everything half scale.

Roger

I love the idea of the dowels! I can think of several aircraft that would be relevant for!

 

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finished cutting the ribs (no laser here ) LOL and finished fine sanding, now to clean up the mess

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I have attached a drawing of the landing gear leg, in PDF, can anyone looking at it, tell me how I would do this to keep the bottom leg from rotating, its an oleo without the knee action so its all internal, , any suggestions would be appreciated



Thanks

Roger

http://giantscalenews.com/oldwpattachments/attachments/9923=3613-landing gear.pdf (4 MB)

 

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Here you see the actual landing gear leg, and also the original wing center section

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an inverted flight by the original Dalotel,

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For those of you wondering what happened to the Pitts....:smile-new:

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