Warbird Stunt

[Larry Fernandez]

Humm baby
Ive got a brand new PT-19 just about ready to go. I'm in!!!

Larry, Buttafucco Stunt Team

[wwwarbird]

 Awesome job on the '19 Larry, very cool.

[john e. holliday]

Sorry Don H., but another good source is the Pat Johnston series he did for the Texas gentlemen a few years ago.   If I didn't have so many plans now I would have gotten his whole series.   I think they were in Stunt News.

[Tom Niebuhr]

Hutch
Ref T34 plan...Me Too

[Joseph Patterson]

   I'm a little late responding, but the Baton Rouge bunch decided to add a war bird stunt event at last years Baton Rouge contest at the suggestion of Jim Oliver. We put the word out very early in the year about the added event and a few guys built planes for this event. We had a lot of entries for this event. People were really enthusiastic about this new event, so we will continue to have this event in the future. We basically used Jim O's rules to avoid any confusion, except we had appearance points. There was a lot of different type military birds entered: The late Great Mike Donavan's Sterling Spitfire in first place,  Joe Gilbert's Hutchinson design T-6 in 2ND, Dale Gleason's Hutchinson design profile J-3 Cub in 3RD, Dee Rice's Don Still Stuka in 4TH, and Don Hutchinson's profile Dauntless in 5TH. I believe we started out calling this event "Military Stunt" so it would seemingly be more inclusive of all military aircraft whether they are trainers, fighters, bombers, transports, etc. Any paint scheme is allowed as long as it was on a military plane in military service. It could be as someone has said earlier A yellow target Tug, the Beatle Bomber Bearcat, "PINBALL P-63's, etc. We wanted to keep it strictly Military so as to honor all those people who gave of their time and lives to the defense of our country and our Allies.
    Doug   

[FLOYD CARTER]

Oh.  Warbird stunt.  Let's see...

Here are some in my hangar.  All are flying regularly.

Hurricane stunt  RO JETT 61

Spitfire  RO JETT 76 with retract gear.

A6M2 Zero  RO JETT 76 with retract gear.

[Avaiojet]

Floyd,

WOW!

Really nice! I like the Spitfire!

What 3-blade prop are you using?

Charles

[Mark Scarborough]

Um, how about this?

geesh,, I feel kinda left out,, I have pictures of my Gee Bee,, hmm not a warbird,,
I have no pictures of my P-40Q model,,
what ever can I do,, hmmm
well I guess there is that one bf109 thing hanging on the wall,,
oh wait, its not hanging in its spot anymore, where on earth can it be,,,,,,,

hmm oh wait, there it is on my bench, getting surgery done,,
now going electric, pictures to follow,,
( yeah Wayne, I know I know, you heard that before right?

[phil c]

We've been doing Warbird combat at Brodak's Flying for several years.  There is scale judging, with the score added to the flight points for each match.

Scoring is simple:
1)show with a 3-view or picture    10 pts.

Decoration
1) Some scale-like decorations for the period-- stars and bars, nose art,etc.    10 pts.
2) Reasonably scale appearing markings, not necessarily a particular plane, but squadron or air group.                                                              25 pts.
3) Scale appearing markings closely following the supplied documentation      45pts.

Design and Outline
1) non-scale stunter  0 pts.
2) Some attempt at scale- canopy, outlines reminiscent of the documented plane  10pts.
3) Reasonably accurate outlines, although not exact(enlarged wing or stab, etc.)
4) Scale appearing outlines and shapes closely following the supplied documentation  45 pts

Judges select one score from each category.  Minimum 10 pts.  Maximum  100 pts.  No inbetween scores. We tried using less restricted scoring but the judges ended up with about a 10 pt spread between a gussied up slow combat ship and reasonably scale, well-decorated plane.

phil c

[wwwarbird]

well I guess there is that one bf109 thing hanging on the wall,,
oh wait, its not hanging in its spot anymore, where on earth can it be,,,,,,,

hmm oh wait, there it is on my bench, getting surgery done,,
now going electric, pictures to follow,,
( yeah Wayne, I know I know, you heard that before right?

 Very nice to hear Mark, but, but...e-electric? Really? Aw c'mon man, that ain't hardly right! If it's not too late just finish it up with the glowmotion and get'er in the air!

 I do remember the P-40Q, that was a cool model.

[Mark Scarborough]

Now Wayne,,
reasons not valid for this thread,

at least this way it will fly,,

[john e. holliday]

Well, as I am a long ways from Mark and he will probably forget this statement by the time we meet again.   I will not hold my breath til it is flying.

[Mark Scarborough]

Well, as I am a long ways from Mark and he will probably forget this statement by the time we meet again.   I will not hold my breath til it is flying.

OUCH ,sheesh Doc,,

ok well there may be some validity to this,, this project has been shelved for several years,, but the electric conversion has reinstated it now,,

[Tom Niebuhr]

Doug,
Thanks for getting in on this thread. I was hoping that we would have some Baton Rouge input. I had no idea that this would create so much interest. I just thought it was a neat idea, with absolutely no credit to me.

We can all thank Baton Rouge and the Central Alabama Stunt Squadron for their contributions and success. I hope that people don't complicate the simple concept.

With over 1200 hits in less than a week, it looks like not only is their interest, we might see more Warbirds / Military airplanes!

[Joseph Patterson]

     Thanks Tom, but Jim Oliver and some of the D.5 fliers get the "kudos" for starting this event in the South. We are glad we added it to our contest and you Texas guys will certainly spice it up. We will keep it simple.
     Doug