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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Speed Talk => Topic started by: Robert Mathison on October 23, 2009, 04:16:36 PM

Title: TORKEY 1/2A proto Speed Plane
Post by: Robert Mathison on October 23, 2009, 04:16:36 PM

Joey I need the plan for the torkey can you help me?
DAD

Title: Re: TORKEY 1/2A proto Speed Plane
Post by: Joey Mathison 9806 on October 23, 2009, 05:14:11 PM

i will check for you.

Title: Re: TORKEY 1/2A proto Speed Plane
Post by: Thomas Wilk on October 23, 2009, 06:12:49 PM

could you be looking for Touquette - a 1/2A profile biplane.  the magazine plans are full size. 

send me a note to my home email and i'll send the magazine article to you.

Tom Wilk

tawilk636@live.com

Title: Re: TORKEY 1/2A proto Speed Plane
Post by: David M Johnson on January 01, 2010, 07:58:24 PM

Is this the plane you were looking for?
David Johnson
AMA 872951

Title: Re: TORKEY 1/2A proto Speed Plane
Post by: David M Johnson on January 01, 2010, 08:02:09 PM

More Torkey pics
This Plane belongs to George Brown

Title: Re: TORKEY 1/2A proto Speed Plane
Post by: David M Johnson on January 01, 2010, 08:02:37 PM

One more

Title: Re: TORKEY 1/2A proto Speed Plane
Post by: Joey Mathison 9806 on January 02, 2010, 07:14:33 AM

all you can eat torkey. LL~

Title: Re: TORKEY 1/2A proto Speed Plane
Post by: David M Johnson on January 02, 2010, 08:39:15 AM

TOOOOO  FUNNY!  I guess I asked for that  ;D

Title: Re: TORKEY 1/2A proto Speed Plane
Post by: kenneth cook on February 17, 2010, 06:18:25 PM

                 I had a plane that was recently given to me that looks very identical to this one. The only real difference is mine has a bellcrank installed. I decided to rebuild it due to a crack which is pretty bad between the two mounts going directly to the front of the leading edge of the wing. I tried putting epoxy in it, but the plane is old and oil soaked. My plane is without tank. After several attempts of a prior model with a Tee Dee, I came to the conclusion that a store bought tank doesn't work. I've tried Perfect tanks over and over without any luck. It was brought to my attention that the tank needs to be thin and the pickup tube in line with the venturi. The majority of tanks would place the pickup way on the outboard side which would create a lean run situation when the head pressure lessens. I replumbed one of them with a uniflow pipe which solved the crazy run situation on that particular tank. I was wondering if its possible for you to post a picture of the underside of this planes wing showing the tank. I'm going to make the tank for mine and I'm not sure what configuration to make it.  I always felt that this should be a simple thing as these planes were not doing any maneuvers and therefore really shouldn't have any issues. I just about lost all interest in these planes with my first attempt due to the tanks not working correctly. Once the uniflow tank started to work I quickly regained interest and felt that I made some real progress. There is a lot of lessons to be learned here and I'm just getting there. Ken