That is a great looking model! 

I have seen plans on the 'bay that look like that.  I wonder if they are the same......

I am interested in how you rigged the two throttle controls off the Robert's unit.  I have played around with the idea of three 90* cranks driven off the third line arm.  Am I way off in right field??  Pictures (heck, even sketches) would be great.

Thanks
Bill <><

skyshark:
CONGRADS on a great project!   

Sounds like the drag chute and wheel brakes came in handy too.  You said it flies fast - would you characterize it as easy/stable - or a handful - to fly?

Ditto Bills question too.  That sounds like a serious bit of pushrod routing. 

The throttles do work off of the third line, the brakes work off of down elevator and the drag chute off of a fourth line. What makes it hard is the engines are very low and the bellctank is on CG high in the fusalage.If I were to build another I would put the bellcrank much lower and run the leadouts under the wing. With this set up I think electric throttles would be the way to go. I tried to build it close to the plans as I could.     
I had to add two oz. of tip weight and three oz of nose weight for trim. It flys about 60 mph and lands at about 30 mph. Flys pretty stable but could use a better elevator control set up than was used per plans.   Mike

I am not trying to hijack Mike's thread or to sidetrack any attention to his really neat version of his XB-47D.

I have finally figured out how to post pictures, so here are some photos of my 1/2A Profile Scale of the same airplane.  This was built several years ago for a contest in Southern California for 1/2 A profile scale models.  It has had some success here in the Southwest where there have been some profile scale events.  Sort of an afterthought, I took the airplane with me to the 2000 Nats where I competed in the Precision Scale event (with another airplane) and entered this 1/2A model in the Profile Scale event there.  (That is the year that Chuck Snyder won Profile Scale with his really neat DeHavilland Hornet, later published in Flying Models.  Chuck's Hornet, in my opinion, sets the standard for what profile scale can be.)  This XB-47 placed third which was a pleasant surprise. 

Some particulars on the model:  1/36 scale, (1" = 3'), works out to be about a 39" span and 36" length.  About 180 sq in and 28 ounces.  Power is by two Norvel .049 Big Migs with throttles.  It uses the Roberts control system with all of the controls inside the model structure, except, of course, the leadouts.   (Getting the bellcrank inside the swept wing of a relatively small 1/2A model was a bit of a challenge.)

The photograph shows the flying propellers and spinners.  For display, it has similar spinners, but has the 4-blade propellers.

A lot of ideas were taken from the Robert Parks article and plans in the May 1958 issue of Model Airplane News.

I need to apologize for the quality of the photos.  I will try to do better in the future.

Keith