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by Threetoughtrucks » Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:24 am
OK, this looks very nice, but why is the plane in a dive with dive flaps deployed and landing gear down? I'm not a plane guy but this does not look right. Am I wrong?
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by Threetoughtrucks » Fri Nov 19, 2010 2:44 pm
Maybe the pilot is Captain "Wild" Bill Kelso and he is landing on the Japanese carrier to capture it.
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by DropTank » Fri Nov 19, 2010 3:36 pm
Threetoughtrucks wrote:OK, this looks very nice, but why is the plane in a dive with dive flaps deployed and landing gear down?
Perhaps they are replacement gear he purchased for 69.99 and he didn't want the money wasted.
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by Coreyeagle48 » Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:52 pm
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There were several balsa Dauntless kits besides the Guillows one. I think Berkeley made one years back, and I had a Berkeley A-12 Shrike at one time that was very close to the size of a 1/18 scale XD plane like we have. I'd be willing to bet this was built from either an older kit or the plans from an older kit, much of it looks to be balsa/control line styling
That may also explain the landing gear. Many of those kits came with molded landing gear only for the down position. So the builder may have installed them the way they came in the kit. Whoever did it put in a lot of work into it and it looks very nice, you don't see builds like that anymore from the old kits, especially if that is what it is.
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by snake » Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:20 pm
Looks good, but it is a kit.And you would have to be a good modeler to do a good job on this one. Not for everybody, bet hey, at least it is available.
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by flyboy_fx » Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:31 pm
If I only had the money.
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