Scale Don Smith P-51 Mustang

[49dimes]

High end products means High end problems.....UGH .

Well.....There is also that "alternative" we discussed .

 

[stangflyer]

High end products means High end problems.....UGH .

Well.....There is also that "alternative" we discussed .

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I appreciate the reminder Kelly. I actually did a lot of research on this exact tres banga! Sounds ok... (nothing like the Kolm) but sound aside, they barely spin the same size, (28×10) prop as my V3 111's. Which just so happens to be the same size prop I'm spinning with my 106cs. 28x10 and 29x9. Naa... I'm going to pass on the underpowered Roto. I would go with a dub 110cs inline twin before I'd do that. I'm holding out for the Kolm. Waiting to see what the main Kolm factory has to say. I also received an email from Gotz today. Wants me to call him.

Sooo.... I shall.

 

[acerc]

Good for you stang, nothing, and I mean nothing, sounds like a four stroke. And being as it will take sometime to build the stang why rush for an engine.

 

[stangflyer]

Not what I was hoping to hear.

 

[acerc]

Not what I was hoping to hear.

I missed a few post somehow. That does indeed suck. The Valach 120 will turn a 31x12 at around 5000 rpm, and a 32x10 being more for speed at about the same. Might not sound quite as good as the Kolm but I think this would be a good alternative. But then again, if you can not get a gear reduction for the 120 to turn a bigger prop it would be to small. You could always down size the airplane... LOL

 

[HRRC Flyer]

I think Kolm is no more. If I am not mistaken, the founder of the company left the business due to difficulties with one or more of his partners. I think I read this elswhere on GSN. It may have been in the Dalotel 165 thread.

Sad news indeed. . . . .

 

[dhal22]

Good for you stang, nothing, and I mean nothing, sounds like a four stroke. And being as it will take sometime to build the stang why rush for an engine.

I hate warbirds with single cylinders sticking out more than I do control line. All that work to scale out a beautiful plane and you ruin it with a 50cc engine on a muffler.

 

[stangflyer]

I can not comment as to the going's on of the Kolm business. A promise I gave. I can however express what I feel and my exact emotions at this time. I love this hobby. It is my deepest and most respected passion. This hobby and the brotherhood that shares in it is far beyond any other organization. I see it dwindling and dying off. A little each day. As a crow will sit on a carcass and pick...pick...pick at the once living flesh it eats upon, it will continue until nothing but dried and cleaned bones remain. It is so very sad when awesome quality products can not survive because the invent of cheaper gotta get a thrill right now toys have mutated our hobby to nothing more than kids ruining what we that built this hobby worked so hard to preserve. I am just venting fellas. But when you get your plans all aligned and your ducks in a row and you get so overwhelmed with excitement...then only to have the rug "YANKED" right out from under your feet... well, I couldn't have been gut punched and had it hurt more. Or even...

Let's just say

would have been more welcomed!!!

 

[pawnshopmike]

I can not comment as to the going's on of the Kolm business. A promise I gave. I can however express what I feel and my exact emotions at this time. I love this hobby. It is my deepest and most respected passion. This hobby and the brotherhood that shares in it is far beyond any other organization. I see it dwindling and dying off. A little each day. As a crow will sit on a carcass and pick...pick...pick at the once living flesh it eats upon, it will continue until nothing but dried and cleaned bones remain. It is so very sad when awesome quality products can not survive because the invent of cheaper gotta get a thrill right now toys have mutated our hobby to nothing more than kids ruining what we that built this hobby worked so hard to preserve. I am just venting fellas. But when you get your plans all aligned and your ducks in a row and you get so overwhelmed with excitement...then only to have the rug "YANKED" right out from under your feet... well, I couldn't have been gut punched and had it hurt more. Or even...
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would have been more welcomed!!!

Surely you can find one on the secondhand market somewhere?

 

[stangflyer]

Surely you can find one on the secondhand market somewhere?

I'm hoping so. I am looking and getting the word out. Maybe it will stir up some one that will take pitty on me. LOL