| Image Comments |
| heywooood | 25-Apr-17 17:58 |
| ok - might have to see about making the doors and canopy functional / sliding etc..and do a proper cockpit |
| David Duckett | 25-Apr-17 19:14 |
| Where angels fear to tread..... |
| biplane guy | 25-Apr-17 19:41 |
| Please tell me those silver knobs on the instrument panel are actually eyepieces for a periscope. How can you see forward in this thing? |
| heywooood | 25-Apr-17 19:55 |
| those are air inlets..the original Solution nearly gassed its pilot to death with exhaust fumes. If you look at the top wing in another view you see two tubular inlets on the leading edge, either side of the fuselage - those are connected to these two silver 'periscope knobs' lol. Remember - in 1932 they didn't care about where they were going as much as how fast they were going. So if dude flew into a building at 250 kts they would say "wow! 250 kts" |
| heywooood | 25-Apr-17 20:02 |
| This one has lots of little tricky areas to consider. the wheel fairings where they join to the struts. The vertical fin to the rear fuselage. The small wing root fairings. This cockpit opening arrangement. The air vent intakes on each side of the upper wing. A small plane - but not a small or straightforward build.. |
| Huey V77 | 25-Apr-17 20:32 |
| I've flown several biplanes, but I don't think I'd want to try this one on. It has less wing area than a Cessna 150, 2800 lbs gross and a wing loading of 27 lbs/ft. Meaning an over the fence speed around 100mph, nope too old for those days. Flew a Smith Mini-Plane, 85mph was bad enough. These guys had large GRASS fields to operate off of, much easier. |
| heywooood | 25-Apr-17 21:35 |
| Huey - me either. I have sat in the right seat of a Piper Cherokee Arrow II..lots of fun.
No Biplane time at all. Reading up on it - Dolittle and Roscoe Turner's writings especially, say that these machines were NOT friendly. |
| heywooood | 25-Apr-17 21:39 |
| lol Dave - you could say that about flying this aeroplane OR trying to build this model accurately. Both apply |
| David Duckett | 25-Apr-17 21:57 |
| Well, I meant the cockpit but I have no doubt that Kevin will nail it. |
| heywooood | 25-Apr-17 22:34 |
| I will do my best - and thanks, David |
| Don C | 25-Apr-17 22:53 |
| I have some miniture piano hinge that didn't work for mine. Might be OK for 1/12 scale. I'l measure it if you are interested. |
| heywooood | 25-Apr-17 23:51 |
| I think I'll just use a straight pin and simulate the piano hinges. Photo etch hinges don't take much to wear out and I'm gonna be constantly opening and closing these doors if this goes according to plan - I can capture the pins at either end of the door pretty easily and call it good. But thanks for the offer. I appreciate that. |
