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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Carrier => Topic started by: Kelly Wilson on March 02, 2010, 08:33:35 PM

Title: RYAN NR-1
Post by: Kelly Wilson on March 02, 2010, 08:33:35 PM

Does anyone know if the Ryan NR-1 was ever flown off of a carrier or was it just a land based trainer?

Title: Re: RYAN NR-1
Post by: skyshark58 on March 02, 2010, 10:21:29 PM

Sorry no carrier history that I can find.   Mike

Title: Re: RYAN NR-1
Post by: john e. holliday on March 03, 2010, 04:52:24 AM

According to wikipedia it was a trainer plane only.  Does not mention a carrier hook ever being installed.  Later versions had the option of being land based or equipped with floats for water flying.  I just typed in Ryan NR-1 navy plane and quite a few sites came up and none showing carrier type plane. H^^

Title: Re: RYAN NR-1
Post by: Kelly Wilson on March 03, 2010, 06:09:08 AM

Oh Well!! Just a thought. It had possibilities and would have looked better than a MO-1

Title: Re: RYAN NR-1
Post by: john e. holliday on March 03, 2010, 07:54:51 AM

If only it would have had a hook of some kind.   D>K

Title: Re: RYAN NR-1
Post by: Kelly Wilson on March 03, 2010, 11:36:36 AM

Yeah, a little kit bashing and you possibly could make the Horizon Hobbies PT-19 into a Ryan NR-1 for a quickie profile and it comes with a .36 engine. The Brodak PT-21 would be a good starting point for a Class I or II. Oh Well!! Too much idle time on my hands this week. I've got a Martin AM-1 and a A7E Corsair on the bench back home than need finishing first anyway.

Title: Re: RYAN NR-1
Post by: Joe Just on March 03, 2010, 05:58:30 PM

Kelly, add a hook and it will be eligible for the Postal Carrier Contest this year. Email me direct for a set of rules.

Joe Just
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