My 1/5th Scale Corsair

[perdue3]

Thank you all for the comments, really appreciate it.

Thanks J, I order my pilots from http://www.bestpilots.typepad.com/, the owner sculpts and casts his pilots from photos of the real person, Boyington in this case. He can even do a custom pilot using your own face from pictures (I'm way too ugly for that tho). He will even paint them for you for a fee but I prefer painting them myself.

I get my pilots from Warbird Pilots, they look amazing and have a nice array of types. I remember seeing the prototype 86" F4U fly at Joe Nall a few years ago. They, of course, had a radial 77cc Evolution on it. Is that the stock retracts? I had the .60 size Hangar 9 F4U and sold it because of the gear. I just wasn't willing to shell out the cash for a rotating 90 Robart set.

[WpnX]

I get my pilots from Warbird Pilots, they look amazing and have a nice array of types. I remember seeing the prototype 86" F4U fly at Joe Nall a few years ago. They, of course, had a radial 77cc Evolution on it. Is that the stock retracts? I had the .60 size Hangar 9 F4U and sold it because of the gear. I just wasn't willing to shell out the cash for a rotating 90 Robart set.

Yea, the gear are the stock Robart electrics and yes, they were very expensive. I considered a radial engine but I had read and seen others with them having too many problems. Plus, I was able to put an electric start on this one so I just flip a switch on my Tx and it fires right up.

[colmbo]

I was able to put an electric start on this one so I just flip a switch on my Tx and it fires right up.

Where is the fun in that?!  Had a club member who's young son was "helping" him start his .60 powered sport model.  When the kid pulled the battery wire off it hit the prop breaking one blade of his wooden Topflight.

The pilot is parked next to me and I notice him walking back to his vehicle hold a hand over his neck...hmmmm?.  He looks in had outside mirror and I can see the split blade of his prop sticking out of his neck very close to the large vessels.  The guy just grabbed it and pulled it out, hold crap did the blood fly!!!

A quick tourniquet and off to the hospital.  Okay, just a pressure bandage.

[1stpar3]

OOPSY! Cops: Why did you strangle this poor guy?"  Medic: He was bleeding out,? Good thing a smarter person was available for fist aid! Sounds like this  DEFINITELY didnt happen where I live. "He is turning blue, you need to release the belt tension some. " Heck NAH, He will bleed all over the bed of my truck! I just washed it"    Sad to report...YES this COULD actually happen, sort of. Made the guy ride in BACK of truck...was cold and raining...didnt want to ruin the inside of his NEW Z71 Custom interior truck,yet he was using it off road IN MUD? 

[Oldman731]

A quick tourniquet and off to the hospital. 

Joe put on his leathers, but the zipper on his jacket was broken.  The temperature that day was in the low 40s, and that was too cold to have wind blowing straight on his chest.  He pulled off to the roadside, took off his jacket, turned it around and took off again.  No more breeze!

Because he was feeling so warm and free, he didn't notice the wet patch at the turn.  His bike skidded off the road, flipped as it hit the ditch, and threw him a good ten feet.  Joe immediately went into a very deep sleep.

A passing motorist called 911.  The first rescue crew to arrive, just by chance, was composed of three guys on their very first call.  They got Joe into the ambulance and raced off to the hospital.

The ER people gave Joe a quick exam.

"He's dead," said the doctor.  "His neck is broken."

"Yeah," said the leader of the crew.  "We saw he had a real problem.  We didn't miss it.  But by the time we got his head turned around the right way, he'd stopped moving."

- oldman

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... I can see the split blade of his prop sticking out of his neck very close to the large vessels.  The guy just grabbed it and pulled it out, hold crap did the blood fly!!!

A quick tourniquet and off to the hospital.  Okay, just a pressure bandage.

A tourniquet on the guys neck? Sounds like the hole from the prop was the least of his worries

[1stpar3]

Joe put on his leathers, but the zipper on his jacket was broken.  The temperature that day was in the low 40s, and that was too cold to have wind blowing straight on his chest.  He pulled off to the roadside, took off his jacket, turned it around and took off again.  No more breeze!

Because he was feeling so warm and free, he didn't notice the wet patch at the turn.  His bike skidded off the road, flipped as it hit the ditch, and threw him a good ten feet.  Joe immediately went into a very deep sleep.

A passing motorist called 911.  The first rescue crew to arrive, just by chance, was composed of three guys on their very first call.  They got Joe into the ambulance and raced off to the hospital.

The ER people gave Joe a quick exam.

"He's dead," said the doctor.  "His neck is broken."

"Yeah," said the leader of the crew.  "We saw he had a real problem.  We didn't miss it.  But by the time we got his head turned around the right way, he'd stopped moving."

- oldman

Was this Alabama?

[colmbo]

A tourniquet on the guys neck? Sounds like the hole from the prop was the least of his worries

If you read that entire line I said we used a pressure dressing.

He was pumping pretty good though, he more so than than guy that got the machete chop to the side of the neck for selling bad drugs and his gash went from just below the ear to the point of the chin!

[Shuffler]

Was this Alabama?

Probably Arkansas..... you know, where the toothbrush was invented. Had it been invented anywhere else it would be called teethbrush.

[colmbo]

Probably Arkansas..... you know, where the toothbrush was invented. Had it been invented anywhere else it would be called teethbrush.

I'll have you know my formative years were spent in Arkansas and I have all my te....well I did until the cancer...but I have all the front teeth!!

[Shuffler]

I'll have you know my formative years were spent in Arkansas and I have all my te....well I did until the cancer...but I have all the front teeth!!

...and you are a fine example of the best the state has to offer. 

We would not mind if you were from Texas! In fact we would be proud to call you a fellow Texan.