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Title: It's aliiiiiiiive!
Post by: Scherf on December 19, 2011, 02:48:34 PM: 3/4-scale Mossie, 17 years' work!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgk9ka-pIVc&feature=youtu.be

Done up in the colours of Max Guedj, the gallant Frenchman who, under the nom de guerre of Wing Commander Maurice, led 143 Squadron against shipping targets in Norway, and who was killed in action in January 1945.
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Post by: SmokinLoon on December 19, 2011, 03:41:43 PM: Nice. Very nice. A fitting tribute, I'd say! :aok

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Post by: pipz on December 19, 2011, 04:17:40 PM: Very very cool :aok
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Post by: morfiend on December 19, 2011, 05:52:00 PM: Really digging those tennisball airbags! :aok

End result was quite impressive.

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Post by: TDeacon on December 19, 2011, 07:07:55 PM: If one is going to the trouble of making something like this, why stop at 3/4?
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Post by: SmokinLoon on December 19, 2011, 07:41:41 PM: Quote from: TDeacon on December 19, 2011, 07:07:55 PM
If one is going to the trouble of making something like this, why stop at 3/4?

That may be the difference between 5 million and 10 million in $$$.
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Post by: B4Buster on December 21, 2011, 12:03:04 PM: Were you part of the build, Scherf?
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Post by: SectorNine50 on December 21, 2011, 12:22:01 PM: Quote from: TDeacon on December 19, 2011, 07:07:55 PM
If one is going to the trouble of making something like this, why stop at 3/4?

This was actually my first thought too.

Very cool though.

Out of curiosity, why does the aircraft only pull one gear up at a time? I imagine it's the way the hydraulics are hooked up?
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Post by: caldera on December 21, 2011, 12:57:59 PM: Quote from: SmokinLoon on December 19, 2011, 07:41:41 PM
That may be the difference between 5 million and 10 million in $$$.

I wonder if these guys would make me a 3/4 scale F6F-5 or P-47D-25. I have $43.17 and a half case of beer.
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Post by: Raptor05121 on December 21, 2011, 01:51:30 PM: Quote from: SectorNine50 on December 21, 2011, 12:22:01 PM
This was actually my first thought too.

Very cool though.

Out of curiosity, why does the aircraft only pull one gear up at a time? I imagine it's the way the hydraulics are hooked up?

Possibly. Semi-related, but as a Engineer/Operator on a Fire Engine I know that hydraulic tools (jaws of life, spreaders, winches, sawzalls) that are hydraulically operated can only be operated one at a time.
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Post by: Scherf on December 21, 2011, 02:36:42 PM: Quote from: B4Buster on December 21, 2011, 12:03:04 PM
Were you part of the build, Scherf?

No no, just a rather bemused onlooker. First read about / saw pics of this a few years back, it was truly a wtf ugly duckling. Looks brilliant in the air though.
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Post by: B4Buster on December 21, 2011, 03:21:07 PM: Quote from: Scherf on December 21, 2011, 02:36:42 PM
No no, just a rather bemused onlooker. First read about / saw pics of this a few years back, it was truly a wtf ugly duckling. Looks brilliant in the air though.

She does look good. It needs some prop hubs though!

Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on December 23, 2011, 12:31:46 AM: Omfg, its a minisquito! :aok
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Post by: Angus on December 23, 2011, 03:18:31 AM: CUTE!!!
Wonder what type of engines these are, and how fast it is...
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Post by: 11Kenzy on December 26, 2011, 05:57:33 AM: I would like to have a 1/4 scale P-51D, sent to the Philippines, $20 for it and 2 cases of beer! :cheers: