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| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 01-Nov-12 16:30 |  | | Views : 1357 | | The wing and tail are covered with Japanese tissue and are unpainted. The fuselage is covered with silkspan and painted with artists water based paint. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 01-Nov-12 16:27 |  | | Views : 1121 | | It had rather clean lines. My model has the fuselage stretched some since it was originally a rubber powered model and was not intended for scale competition. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 01-Nov-12 16:24 |  | | Views : 1339 | | It would have probably been a very successful fighter but it was made a two place and that never worked out. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 01-Nov-12 16:21 |  | | Views : 1155 | | The Consolidated PB-2A was a very advanced airplane in the mid 1930's. It was all metal and had retracting landing gear and a supercharger. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 01-Nov-12 16:19 |  | | Views : 1119 | | The exhaust pipes and supercharger were external on the P-30 which was re-designated as the PB-2A. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Build | 01-Nov-12 16:16 |  | | Views : 1194 | | The fuselage has been repaired, covered and wing fillets DDED |
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| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 01-Nov-12 16:14 |  | | Views : 1102 | | This is an original P-30. There was a free flight event called P30. I decided to build a semi scale P-30 model for that event so I would have a P-30 P30. It wa srubber powered and flew pretty well, consistently just under 60 seconds. With the advent of electric power and really small radio equipment I converted it to RC. I flew it a while and eventually crashed just about breaking the fuselage in half. This is the wreckage with some repairs. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:35 |  | | Views : 1333 | | This gives an idea of the small size of the model. Its currently hanging over the breakfast table. My wife wants me to hange more of my models around the house; I marreid a winner. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:32 |  | | Views : 1283 | | I wanted to fly it but glide test indicate the the horozontal tail is too small, it won't trim for a stable glide. Perhaps if the wing were more scale, ie 3 inches shorter, it would be stable but thee it wouldn't be a 1936 Comet model. That could be a future project, howerve. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:25 |  | | Views : 1245 | | Sitting next to a foam rc P 26. I had intended to make another Comet P 26 as an rc but the foam P 26 is so unstable (always wants to roll over on its back) I decided that isn"t a good idea. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:21 |  | | Views : 1280 | | I used butyrate dope on the tissue. I think it would have come out better with nitrate. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:18 |  | | Views : 1118 | | Well after 70 years I finally finished it. |
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