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Posted: August/23/2024 at 10:29am  Quote
 

F4C World Champion, David Law


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Posted: August/23/2024 at 10:32am  Quote
 
Danny,

Do you know if the Pitts is the Bill Stevik (Bob Dively) design...or scratch?

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Hi Ed, it's scratch built, from the Pitts drawings of the full size.

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Posted: August/23/2024 at 1:10pm  Quote
 
Ben wading through the thread two things i noticed.
First the use of a table cloth with some sort of country identifier on top of the work bench is a nice touch. Yes I know its isnt being judged there but it leaves a better impression.
The other has to do with packing the models. I think I might have read this before but you posted a picture of the Pitts being prepared for shipping that reminded me. The builder had removed the engine. That is a lot of weight and with the circumspect handling of the boxes it isn't a bad idea to remove all that mass from the airframe as sudden drops could put undue shock on the airframe if the engine is still mounted in the nose unsupported by additional reinforcement.
I once took a USRA Pylon racer to Dubai for a 4 day airshow. I didn't pack it in a box as i hand carried it as part of my personal luggage on a company airplane.
I had about a 8 hour layover in Paris with the plane siting in the crew room generating lots of interest.

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Posted: August/23/2024 at 3:11pm  Quote
 
Sparky,

Must’ve been pretty unique & quite an experience to fly to Dubai & enter your model. I bet that’s worth a separate post itself.
 
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I once packed a model for the journey to Top Gun by Fixing the wheels to the flore of the box by ' rubber bands' and bolted
 the prop driver to a wood cross bar, Rough handling endured that when it was dropped the firewall was broken.

What I learnt  to do after that when packing a model was to mount a cut down prop and fix that to the box with rubber so the gear was able to absorb shocks, which is after all what it is designed to do.

At these big international Comps some country go to a lot of trouble to decorate the allotted hanger space in a interesting and patriotic way..
Sometimes i thing way to mutch time spent to little effect. Nice to see though.



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Posted: August/24/2024 at 6:54am  Quote
 
Sparky,

..Didn't know you were involved in USRA. Did you compete in our Galveston, Hearne, or Madera races or were
..you still driving USN 6's?



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Posted: August/24/2024 at 8:34am  Quote
 

Tim Dickey's lovely Waco

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