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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: RC Storick on December 14, 2006, 05:00:02 PM

Title: Not airplanes but worth a look!
Post by: RC Storick on December 14, 2006, 05:00:02 PM

Check this scale model out !! http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/30/video-homemade-1-3-scale-ferrari-312pb-fully-functional/

Title: Re: Not airplanes but worth a look!
Post by: john e. holliday on December 14, 2006, 07:52:56 PM

That is truly amazing that someone has that kind of patience and persiverance.  I tried sending this to my son,  JJ.  Later,  DOC Holliday

Title: Re: Not airplanes but worth a look!
Post by: Keith Spriggs on December 14, 2006, 10:52:40 PM

Here is a couple of pictures of a 1/6 th scale Duesenberg (that is half the size of the Ferrari and has all the same features) that a friend of mine is building . He too has made everything including the tires.  The engine is a dual overhead cam with a supercharger. Five years so far and expecting three more. Works on it 8-10 hours a day 7 days a week. He has completed a 9 cylinder rotary Bentley engine about 8 inches in diameter.

Title: Re: Not airplanes but worth a look!
Post by: rob biddle on December 15, 2006, 01:42:10 AM

  Wow!!! Imagine the stunt ships these guys could turn out, Incredible. n~

Title: Re: Not airplanes but worth a look!
Post by: Mike Scholtes on December 16, 2006, 07:47:32 AM

Both of these are absolutely unbelievable. I cannot even conceive of the skill and patience needed for such a project. I presume the Doozy engine runs, like the Ferrari? Now...can we get these guys to bulid a one-sixth Rolls-Royce Merlin for a scale Mustang? Imagine how THAT would sound in a fly-by!

Title: Re: Not airplanes but worth a look!
Post by: Elwyn Aud on December 16, 2006, 09:34:24 AM

Would 1/5 scale be sufficient?

http://www.enginehistory.org/merlin_xx.htm

http://www.enginehistory.org/ModelEngines/Hares/Merlin%20XX/MerlinXX.mpg

Title: Re: Not airplanes but worth a look!
Post by: peabody on December 16, 2006, 12:46:54 PM

I kinda thought this was hue kewl....
http://hsfeatures.com/features04/spitfiremkidg_1.htm

Title: Re: Not airplanes but worth a look!
Post by: Manuel Cortes on December 16, 2006, 12:55:08 PM

Oh my God!!!!!!
Impressed too much, my planes seem toys!!!!!!
(realy ARE toys, hahahaha)
Regards.

Title: Re: Not airplanes but worth a look!
Post by: Mike Scholtes on December 16, 2006, 09:44:38 PM

Good LORD!! Everybody viewing this site has got to look at the links above to Barry Hares' real, running, 1/5 Rolls Royce Merlin and David Glen's 1/5 scale Spitfire. I was half-kidding about somebody building a Merlin, but there it is...more than 20 years ago, too! The problem I see putting this incredible engine in a flying model is that it's weight would require an airframe strong enough that the wing loading would be off the chart for a flyable model aircraft. Anyone know what use the engine was put to, other than  making the rest of us feel like hopeless amateurs?

Title: Re: Not airplanes but worth a look!
Post by: Keith Spriggs on December 16, 2006, 10:17:31 PM

Check this out. Bear in mind this 1/16 scale. More pics and info here.
http://www.sherline.com/jmfPar02.htm