There is a p-38 on Ebay currently. The kits go under a name Beeaircraft company. This person is making a twin .049 version of the p-38 and also one using .020's. The starting bid is $ 49.99 for the auction. I've seen these on here a few times . You can find it just by typing in control line kits and scroll down. This is a neat looking plane and I was wondering if it stunted. Ken

Can anyone recomend a P38 kit or plans for 2-1/2A engines?  I have a pair of Norvel's looking for a plane to hang on to.

You might want to contact Chris McMillan who frequents these forums.  His 13 year old son Michael entered a P-38 in the recent 1/2A multi-engine profile scale contest here in Tucson several weeks ago.  He placed third in the unlimited class (with throttles)against some good competition.  His model was a decent size to handle the power of the twin Norvel .061's.  Pictures of it can be seen on the Stuka Stunt Works forum.  I think pictures did appear on this forum once but seem to have disappeared.  The results of that contest are posted  elsewhere on this forum.

As has been suggested, most profile kits presently available were probably designed along the line of the old scientific kits, were for the less powerful engines of those days and would not do justice for the power available from the Norvels.  So, check with Chris as to the origin of his son's design.

Keith

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Checkout Michael's P-38 on this forum at

http://stunthanger.com/smf/index.php?topic=14588.msg131982#new

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Photos are on this forum in the Open and Scale sections.

My recollection of the Sterling profile P-38 is that it was designed for twin .049s to .099s, and visually it looked OK for Norvel .061s. I'd say that it has moderate stunt capabilities.

I suspect that the .09-.15 version would be about the right size.  The Twin Flite Streak that Stan Tyler flies is 340 sq.in.  with twin Tee Dee .051s.  It has more power than it needs.

Yes, lightening a Lightning is in order.  To be Leprechaun legal, only the 3-view need be accurate.  Of course, as far as I know, we only fly 1cc/Leprechaun here in SOCAL.  (A pity, actually!)

As far as stunting goes:

Not a scale p-38 by any means, but this was my "Confederate" that I built a couple years ago, general idea was a from a P-38 with a Ringmasters general dims scaled to fit (sort of).  Basically I threw it together and it turned out cool and flew awesome.

42" wingspan, something like 300 square.  Power was 2 .061 Wasps.  All up weight was right at 17 oz.  Plane pulled with AUTHORITY on 45' Spiderwire and was a dream to fly.  Unfortunately it bet its demise thanks to some little punks in my neighborhood.  Only got about 30 flights but have thought of making another many times, I just don't have any of the tracings or parts.

Nah, the Green Giant was the first plane I flew with the Droopy diamond (and it was heavy and flew well), which was the result of a project from when I was in college as a physics project.  We were looking at making physical measurements of lift on different wing shapes and the DD was originally drawn up on a napkin at Mitches Tavern (the pub from "Bull Durham") after a half dozen pints of Fosters Lager.  As you have found out, from our studies we found that if the DD was used with no sheeting and VERY tight covering, it generates an insane amount of lift

That was why I used it on the Confederate, I knew it was going to be a big plane and I wanted it to howl.  Can't remember why I moved away from it, cause it really does work well and its super easy to build.