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100cc WARBIRD ADVICE
Hello all, I have in my possession a 3w 120 rear carb engine and am looking for the ideal aircraft. I like warbirds, and like to build scale, I figure that I am not the only one who wants to build a 100cc warplane, so please share personal experiences. the biggest issue is that the engine is 12.75 inches wide, so this probably limits the air frames that can fit it.
Thanks Forgot to mention, it will fit wherever a DA 150 will |
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I would do an L4-- so basically a cub.. your motor could hang out the cowl as far as it needs. The remnants of my 1/3 scale j3 is being redone as a warbird- why - because i already have a huge fleet of warbirds and you really dont see that many L4 done well.. there are a few hemple 1/4 scale out there but not many bigger ones. Also, no retracts to fuss with.. simple, flys well and when the wind is 20mph direct cross wind I will have something to fly..
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This is tricky. 120 is an odd size engine for warbirds. First off you need to be looking at something with a round engine (radial/rotary) to have room to hide the engine... But even then this is a tought in between size. Most 1/5 scale warbirds are too small for it to fit and would be way overpowered, most 1/4 scales would fit but way underpowered.
2walla might be right that the best option is a 1/3 scale L4. But the engine is to big even for that - the 4 cylinder continental powering those old cubs has about a 10 inch width between the cylinder heads at 1/3 scale. If you want to do it anyway you could start with the Balsa USA 1/3 scale cub kit and convert it (basically involves framing out all those observation windows behind the wing). Thinking... All the Top Flite kits are too small... Meister has a number of P-47s and Corsiars but this wont fit in the 1/5 sizes and wont have enough power for the 1/4 sizes. Vailly makes a Fw-190A that's close.... but just a little too small. The plug caps would stick out. Yellow is gone... If you are willing to scratch build you could dig through Ziroli plans and see if you can find something that works. Vogelzang carries a bunch of European designers that carry very high end kits but a lot of them are larger and built around exotic engines like the big Moki raidals. The 120 may work but probably marginal on power. This engine would actually fit either the Glenn Torrance or BalsaUSA 1/3 scale Dr.I triplane's perfectly but it would be ridiculously overpowered... possibly to the point of being hard to land and risking ripping the wings off at WOT. http://www.top-flite.com/airplanes/gold-kits.html http://meister-scale.com/ http://www.vaillyaviation.com/Focke-Wulf.html http://www.vogelsang-aeroscale.com/warbirds.html http://www.mcssl.com/store/glentorrancemodels/3rd-scale-fokker-dr1-triplane-kit http://shop.balsausa.com/product_p/400.htm http://shop.balsausa.com/product_p/467.htm |
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Has anyone built the hostetler mammoth scale A-1 skyraider?
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no but "i need TP for my bung hole" LOL miss that show
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yeah, that show is great.
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