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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Scale Models => Topic started by: Tim Wescott on October 13, 2011, 08:23:51 PM
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Does anyone recall which issue of Flying Models had the North American "Yale" three-view?
I've got an RC AT-6 that's in really sorry shape (actually, it'd be in several pieces except for the nyrod outer cladding). I'm thinking of gluing the wings back together and putting a throttle in it. Since the plane is without retracts it actually resembles the Yale more than a Harvard -- so I'm thinking of rebuilding it as a Yale.
But I'd have to look through an awful lot of magazines...
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Finish your Streak. LL~ LL~ If you do a google on the plane you should be able to find something. H^^
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Finish your Streak. LL~ LL~ If you do a google on the plane you should be able to find something. H^^
I'm almost done with the Streak -- it's in the paint shop now. After that comes an S-1 Ringmaster (well, the S-1 comes after cleaning four plane builds' worth of mess off my bench, but it's the next plane project), and after the S-1 my bench will be open.
The real impetus to build the thing up is because I fly off of a grass field where "pop-up" takeoffs are mandatory. So I need a lot of practice on smooth takeoffs for CLPA. So I was thinking I'd get that plane put back together for 3-line, then when I get a chance to get out to Delta Park and the paved circle, I can just do wall-to-wall takeoffs. So the main goal isn't to build a scale ship -- but while I'm at it I may as well put a bit of effort into it.
And I've been looking on the web, and I haven't been able to find much on the BT-14. Lots of AT-6 stuff, but very little BT-14. Since I know it showed up in FM, which almost certainly means that I have the pertinent issue, it seems a low-cost way to start scheming on what to do to the plane.
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Tim:
I took a look through my piles. I have three pages of Paul Matt's three-views for the AT-6, but nothing for the Yale. Sorry.
Jim Fruit
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Thanks Jim.
The BT-14 is perfect for this project, because the model was designed as a SOS AT-6, only without the retracts or wheel fairings. Since the BT-14 underwent constant evolution to become the AT-6, there are some planes out there that practically are this model. As long as I can contain my enthusiasm for changing the outline it should be dead simple to refinish this thing to something I can call a BT-14 without too much shame, and get my take-off trainer in the bargain.
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www.bobsairdoc.com
See what Bob Banka has, he has the largest 3-view collection that I have seen, maybe even has some pictures
I looked in my 3-view collection and found nothing but found a small 3-view of the NA-18 in the following book
"North American's T-6" by Dan Hagedorn.
Fred C.
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He has four or five photopaks, and one three-view. I'm frustrated because I know I've got that three-view in my possession.
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From what I have read while googling the NA Yale was that the only difference was the Yale had stationary landing gear. Also looking at the pictures I could hardly see any differences except when the gear was retracted. D>K
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Yup. Hence, a Texan ARF where the designers left off both the landing gear and the wheel wells is just about perfect. In this case, changing the nameplate to a different plane is much easier than changing the model to match the nameplate.