Welcome aboard sir! Exceptional design work and a hardy degree of patience ;^). The pic below needs to be added to the front page of RCSB's rolling pix found top center... I propose it as a significant accomplishment in not only subject, but representative of a "growing" segment of RC Scale. Wonderful work!
Had to come back and ask if the TBF's torpedo bay doors are functional? ;^) Is most of your work at 1:9~1:10?
My Boly has a couple of ancient Hobby Lobby SKT 400XT 900 kV motors, 10A ESCs and 8x4 three blade props. The combination pulls around 200W from a 2200mAh 3s lipo, and with the Boly weighing 35 oz, that works out to about 95W/lb. A modern motor like the SunnySky 2208 1000kV would work as well, but the ESC’s might need upgrading to 12-15A just for a bit more margin.
The TBF flies very well on a SunnySky 2814 900 kV brushless motor swinging a Master Airscrew 11x7 three-blade prop. The combination is good for 315 watts from a 3800 mAh 3s lipo battery. I use a 40A ESC. The TBF weighs 3 1/2 pounds, so around 90W/lb.
Dan (ScaleAero),
Torpedo bay doors aren’t operational on the TBF, but an enterprising builder could easily make them work! As for scale, the Bolingbroke is about 1/14 scale and the TBF is 1/12. The Hurricane I’m building is 1/10. The scale of my builds is pretty much dictated by the small size of my shop; 60” is about as big as I can fit.
Welcome to the site. You're going to fit right in here. You have some impressive projects that you have already presented and we're anxious to see more. The amount of detail in the smaller scale factor is a tough nut to crack but you have done an excellent job.
Please keep the projects coming!
David
__________________ David M. Heil
Laurel Hill, Florida
Flying:
YA P-47
AN2
YPT-14,
TF P-51
Platt 190
Phoenix YPT-14
Nieuport 28
Fokker D7
Lysander
T-28
Viper
Building:
YA Zero
Anderson LA-7
Bates J2M R
I love stick and tissue builds, this would be great enlarged as well. I always say I am going to build another 80 inch plus stick and tissue for RC, Like my ME 109..
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