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Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 9:13 pm
by pdb
I think we need a new model section. I have two unbuilt Jetco 170s, one cruddy Guillow's kit, a Scienfic 170 c/l kit and an excellent Acme Aircraft electric kit. I don't have enough time for any of them and I am not getting any younger.
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 11:02 pm
by pdb
The Scientific kit was an .049 powered profile fuse, built up wing ~24" span kit which I flew when I was 14 or so. It was inspirational. Great flying if you three pointed it. They still show up on eBay from time to time.
The Acme C-170, now out of production, was a modern laser cut electric kit. Ultra high quality.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=512246
The Jetco kit was the most versatile. Its well engineered and makes a great two channel model and is fully suitable to electric conversion.
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 12:16 am
by bagarre
Uh. your steering springs are installed wrong
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 1:15 am
by 170C
This balsa 170 is quite a project. Very interesting. I am amazed at the skills a lot of you have beyond flying your 170's and other aircraft. pdb, your comment, "Great flying if you three pointed it." Isn't that the proper way to land tail draggers
I will bet it was a fast one too if it had any GREEN paint on it
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 2:20 am
by Bruce Fenstermacher
Ah, that looks like a Maule. Will be be seeing one on 44C to it matches?
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 3:33 am
by C170U2
Dude, you're losing it.....and I love it!! Can't believe the detail your going after with that thing! Still planning on Columbia tomorrow if you have a flying airplane and can spare the time away from your project.
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 11:15 pm
by Ryan Smith
Put some JR equipment in there instead of Spektrum and you really would have something!
Great job so far, Arash! I'm really digging it.
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:25 am
by bagarre
Wow! Those look just like the glass ones on 81D!
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 3:17 pm
by GAHorn
Be certain to use the proper wedges when you align your wheels.
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:30 am
by johneeb
When I first looked at the picture of your wheel still in its SkyLite package I thought you were putting in a stall warning buzzer. And said to myself he won't be able to hear that on the ground
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Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:59 am
by daedaluscan
Very nice flap action.
I like the way you doubled the rib with thin ply and then glued on the servo mount.
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:18 am
by GAHorn
Why deploy the flaps at all? ... Why don't you just
slip it?
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 2:38 pm
by GAHorn
Aryana wrote:I've tried on some of my other models George, and from the ground it looks like a pilot incapacitation episode as the plane pitches and yaws all over the place!
OK...so then... Maybe you can demonstrate why NOT to slip with full flaps!
(It'd be a shame to lose all that fine handi-work tho'...)
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:41 pm
by cessna170bdriver
How are you going to do the corrugations in the control surfaces? 13/16" spacing will be about right for the scale you're building...
Re: 27% 170B build
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:06 am
by GAHorn
Are you going to do the Dip Davis latches...?? or is this a later B-model?