|
Main Menu
User Login
View By Aircraft
Users Aircraft
|
Scratch Built Brewster Buffalo by hjlittman. Viewed 2322 times.
Build Thread
|
|
|
| Image Comments |
| hjlittman | 25-Jun-25 00:08 | | Well, there it is. 1930s modeling. Now to see if it flies. |
| bobgood | 25-Jun-25 08:19 | | Very cool! |
| hjlittman | 27-Jun-25 22:15 | | I only had a few minutes to trim it because there was a P-18 contest that morning and the time I had was from the end of the contest until we had to give up the gym. Fortunately, it flew stabily from the start. Since it is rather draggy ( I think that I should have built it gear up.) it does need more power, so I will have to use 3/32" rubber instead of the 1/16" I had in it. I got flights all the way the length of the gym but it doesn't want to turn. I will try trimming it outdoors at the Black Sheep LoCal contest on Sunday morning. |
| bobgood | 29-Jun-25 10:57 | |
| bobgood | 29-Jun-25 10:58 | | Very unusual model - I don't recall those in the UK! |
| hjlittman | 29-Jun-25 20:02 | | I took it to the LoCal contest this morning (Finished second with my 15 year old P-51.) to see how it did outdoors. I put some larger, 3/32", rubber in it. It was a bit tail heavy with that rubber but I didn't have any stall/spin crashes and it's still in one piece. A little clay in the cowl fixed the tail heavy problem. With enough winds in it to get a long flight it has trouble handling the torque on launch but if the rubber is backed off it won't climb. I' going to try a smaller prop. There was a slight breeze and it had some trouble with penetration because it is rather draggy. I think I should have built it "gear up" even though our indoor Peanut contests have an ROG bonus. |
|
|
Please sign in to comment on this image.
|
|
|
