Cockpit fuselage inside sheetmetal.

Even with paint I couldn't stand looking at the fuselage planking which is visible inside the cockpit.

I did something about it. Four more pieces to add to the 90 piesce so far.

Simple glossy photo paper with a couple coats of Robert's 540 on the flat side or the back.

Back on the Mac for a CAD drawing of the sheetmetal framework rendition. Close to scale, but only for the look.

Cut and weeded and placed on the primed photo paper stock already cut to fit.

Now get this. I dug really deep to come to a conclusion as to what the cockpit colors were. Found out blue was used on the tubing and inner fuselage sheetmetal and brace work. Blue it has to be and this blue is really close in color.

94 pieces and counting.

Charles

All you needed was to have a gal of 5 and a gallon of 10%, that way you can use either 5, 10  or make 7.5%.  I have all my guys do this, once you fly with the different Niitros you will get a good feel what you need, and if you had just dropped to 7.5% , you would have had flight time and the engine would have been close to the exact same power.
This is a simple thing to do, and is much much easier than removing the head and adding shims, or guessing on venturie size.

Randy

I think you're worrying about it too much. Yes, you will get a bit dizzy during 6 level laps upright, and worse inverted...so don't do all of them. Maybe skip the OH8's and do some more V8's instead.

You can do this! Know that you can do this! Your team is counting on you! Rah, rah, rah!  Steve

They made  both ball bearing models and plain bushing models of the 51, Also the later ones had muffler lugs and thicker cylinder sleeves

Randy

Thank you,

Allen

 
   Actually the thicker air raised the power capability which is why it was going to take more fuel. If you get the thing adjusted to run the original run time, the power will be the same as it was.

    In this case the solution would have been to cut the nitro by mixing up lower-nitro fuel in the syringe. Of course you have to know how much to cut it. We do the inverse at the NATs, jack up the nitro to get the same run time.

    Brett

   If I were you, I would fix that condition. With a .75 up front, I think you could afford to put a .010" smaller venturi in the nose. and see if that stretched your mileage a bit. Or stack some panty hose material up on the venturi until your run times go up 35 to 45 seconds. I don't think you'll loose any appreciable power, but Randy can verify that. Just a little bit of work, some test flights with a stop watch and it's worth it for the piece of mind.
   Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

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