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10-29-2007, 08:21 PM
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| dreamliner guy  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Littleton, CO
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 |  Fire Ball pics at OEAF in Phoenix
Here's a few pics of P-47M Fire Ball in action at the One Eighth Air Force fall show this past weekend in Phoenix. Great event, great people. Bob Frey on the controls. Davegee |
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10-29-2007, 08:59 PM
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| Tony Quist   Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Glendale, AZ Age: 45
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This was one many fantastic airplanes that not only looked great on the ground, but were flown VERY well. Maybe Dave can post some of the detailed photos on this plane. I don't really pay much attention to scale airplanes, but this is off the hook.
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10-30-2007, 09:15 AM
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| dreamliner guy Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Littleton, CO
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| Re: Fire Ball pics at OEAF in Phoenix
For those interested, I'll post a few pics of details on the plane. It was built strictly for contests, so a few extra items were added. It features a detailed scale cockpit, powered sliding canopy, unique shaped (I designed it) releasable scale 150 gal. "flat" drop tank , working gear and flaps. and working cowl flaps. Bob Frey is the pilot for it. davegee |
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10-31-2007, 03:29 PM
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| Bad-ass Super Contributer!  Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mt. Pleasant, Texas
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| Re: Fire Ball pics at OEAF in Phoenix
That is very nice!!!
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10-31-2007, 03:42 PM
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| Sleepy's step and fetch   | Re: Fire Ball pics at OEAF in Phoenix
Now that is nice looking rig..... Scale detail is absolutely unbelievable.... Keep up the great work, and motivating the balsa butchers world wide.... AWESOME ! more pics if you got em' !
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10-31-2007, 03:52 PM
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| Bad-ass Super Contributer!  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Gainesville, TX Age: 35
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| Re: Fire Ball pics at OEAF in Phoenix
How many hours did this take and is there a similiar bomb bay, that thing is so real i would be nervous stangding in front of the guns
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11-01-2007, 04:29 PM
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| dreamliner guy Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Littleton, CO
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| Re: Fire Ball pics at OEAF in Phoenix
Hi Dangerous Dan: I did do a similar thing with the gunbay on a previous P-47 model. On that one I had to make my own resin cast bullets, something I had not done before. This time however, I was luckier. I checked out Ebay about a year and a half ago, and happened to come across someone who was selling machined brass 1/6 scale 50 cal. bullets and connecting links. I bought four strings of them, everything he had. Due to the weight of the bullets, we take them out for flights. The rest of the ammo and gun bays are completely scratchbuilt, and each gun has about 30 handmade parts. Total time spent was probably a hundred hours on the ammo bays, mainly because of my previous experience noted above. Glad you like them. Davegee |
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