Funflaks Rc Models

[Funflak]

Here is some photos of my 100", 23% scale P-51D20NA Mustang. Powered by a 100 cc gas, single cylinder engine, has working retracts, sequencing gear doors, power operated remote controled sliding canopy, all lights function including the fold down landing light. It weighs 37 pounds and has been signed on the canopy by the actual WWII pilot who flew Ina the Macon Bell, MR. Lee Archer the only known Ace of the Tuskegee Airmen. Even the fuel is put into the aircraft at the fuel port on the side of the fuse behind the canopy on the left side. Also the drop tanks are dropable from the air during flight. You never know when you may be bounced by the Hun...hehehehehe

All panel lines, rivets and hatches are inplace along with simulated wrinkled sheel metal.

[gec]

whoooww great stuff FF !!

i'm still learning with my MPX EasyStar

[Snacko]

I saw this in person at an RC show with Fun. It was beautiful!

But I would like to see a pic of your living room where you told me your wife not only let you hang your planes, but painted scenery on the wall..

[Tonar]

I want flying Video !!!

Sweet bird Funflack. I love the detail.

I have been unable to break through the .60 size RC model barrier. But I have been flying them for 15+ years.

Are you retired? The reason I ask is IL2 and RC birds take up a whole crap load of time.

[Kimosabi]

Sweet plane, Funflak! I knew you had one but first time see.

One question though about the P-51: Those "humps" just in front of the ailerons... Are those airfoils to guide the airflow over the control surfaces, or are they aileron hinge "stiffeners" of some sort?

Cheers!

[delta7]

superb - a whole new level !!!

[Painless]

~S~ Flak,

What a beauty !! How many horse power does that 100cc produce and how fast will she go in level flight ?

~S~ Painless.

[MadTrooper]

WOW, Fantastic funflak! Great model.

[T_O_A_D]

Yeh FF show your basement living room and your work shop. your t-38 and your ducted fan F-16

Yeh FF show your basement living room and your work shop. your t-38 and your ducted fan F-16

[Tonar]

Yeh FF show your basement living room and your work shop. your t-38 and your ducted fan F-16

Yeh FF show your basement living room and your work shop. your t-38 and your ducted fan F-16

Show it! Show it !

I want to drule

[Funflak]

I want flying Video !!!

Sweet bird Funflack. I love the detail.

I have been unable to break through the .60 size RC model barrier. But I have been flying them for 15+ years.

Are you retired? The reason I ask is IL2 and RC birds take up a whole crap load of time.

Yes I am retired, but I have been building and flying some type of model airplane for most of my life. It grew into working for my private pilots licence and instrument rating. I have had the priviledge of flying over a lot of the continental US. I am no longer current and relegate all my flying to models and online with the best bunch of fliers in the world. DDs. Not to mention my association with Joint-Ops. I also do volunteer work at The National Museum of the US Air Force which is only about 20 minutes away from where I live. I am blessed to have the priviledge to be around all these great planes in IL2 on a regular bassis. My life has revolved around flying and have really enjoyed myself.

[Funflak]

~S~ Flak,

What a beauty !! How many horse power does that 100cc produce and how fast will she go in level flight ?

~S~ Painless.

Due to obligations with the Tuskegee Airmen for the model to be on display for various functions I have not flown the model yet. However I have another one of similar size and weight and can reach speeds of 120-130 miles per hour in level flight. The 100cc two stroke engine has about 5-6 hourspower I think. It turns a 24"diameterX12"pitch two bladed prop around 6400 rpms. The first plane has now been signed by approx. 70 Tuskegee Airmen and is now grounded. I fly an 85" wing span 24# P-51C Mustang that has a 50cc engine in the nose and does about 115 mph in level flight and cruses around 95 or so. It is painted to resemble the full scale C Mustang that is owned by the Red Tail Project in MN. It was painted to honor the Tuskegee airmen by doing a paint scheme that takes something from all four squadrons of the Airmen and not just one airmens plane. My friend was killed in it five years ago due to an untimely engine failure on base leg at an air show. The group has since restored the plane and is again flying the plane. You can see it by going to this link: http://www.redtail.org if you like.

It has been a real priviledge to have met so many of the original Tuskegee Airmen and hear their stories. Toad was at the Mustang gathering with me and met quite a few himself.

The photos are of all three, The C model on a fly by with the US Air Force museum in the back ground, and one just as the wheels touch on landing. The first D model, 102" wingspan is shown flying agian with the museum as the back ground and one right after the final signature had been placed on the model at the Mustang Gathering. The other two depic Mr. Archer signing the canopy rail of the newest model and one right aqfter he had signed the plane. The man came running over to me before I had met him and threw his arms around me and hugged me like his long lost son. He was over whelmed with emotion to think someone would take the time to build a model of his airplane. If you look closely at the builder while Lee is signing the plane you can see the tears welling in his eyes when the gravity of the moment had hit him.

Toad was there when all this took place and had his photo taken with a lot of the airmen along with a lot of the other WWII Mustang pilots in atendance.

[Funflak]

Sweet plane, Funflak! I knew you had one but first time see.

One question though about the P-51: Those "humps" just in front of the ailerons... Are those airfoils to guide the airflow over the control surfaces, or are they aileron hinge "stiffeners" of some sort?

Cheers!

They are there to clear the bell cranks in the wings for the aileron controls.

[Funflak]

I saw this in person at an RC show with Fun. It was beautiful!

But I would like to see a pic of your living room where you told me your wife not only let you hang your planes, but painted scenery on the wall..

OK here goes, Hanging in the room is my Byron F-16, a SE5A ( had to get a WWI model in there) built back in the mid seventies and is a control line model, then comes my Byron Beech Baron Twin, Then an Extra 300 ARF that one of our foreign exchange students built and flown while here. He was from Sweden. Then my Bell Jet Ranger Helicopter painted to match one of our local TV stations heli. Numorous photos and also one wall is covered with various awards I've won over the years flying and one for drag racing in my 1970 Big Block Corvette many years ago. The one photo of the sign was done in needle point by my wife. She has done three different pieces of art in the room. This one was a reminder from when we went on a trip in my plane years ago, and when leaving a small airport at our destination this sign was at the exit from the airport.

Gary

[Snacko]

Great Pics Gary!

Thanks for sharing. My fav is the F16. How is that powered?

[Funflak]

Great Pics Gary!

Thanks for sharing. My fav is the F16. How is that powered?

Thanks Snacko, the F-16 was built and flown in the early 90s and was then powered by an OS .91 ducted fan engine on glow. It turns the fan about 24,000 rpms and produced about 12 pounds of thrust. The plane weights just at 11 1/2 pounds. It would fly at speeds of 150 mph.. The fan is 5" in diameter. This plane was modeled after the squadron commmanders plane at Wright -Patterson AFB hear locally and was an Air Force Reserve unit. These planes were kept in brand new condition and if you look at the gun port on the left side there is a shiney area around the gun port. They did not like powder burns in the paint from firing the gun so they clear coated the area so it would be easier to clean. I was given cart-blaunch around the plane to take photos and measurments. Was prividleged to go through there maintence hanger and set in this plane. They even supplied me with the actual paint they use to touch them up so the color on the model is the exact paint and color as the real plane. Judges couldn't take any thing away from color or markings huh? Our club lost the field that we were flying from when the owner died and her kids sold the land. It had a paved runway. The field that I fly from now is all grass and planes like this can not fly form them, just like my Baron. It would tear the retracts right out of them. Wheels are two small. Model aviation has allowed me to have many opportunities to be around many full scale planes and meet there pilots that I would not have had the chance if not for model aivation.

[SkyPup]

Just came across this while browsing the model thread. Very nice work. Always loved the 'Stang and a big model like that does it justice.

P

[Cold_Gambler]

Absolute beauty, Funflak

Congrats!

[PropNut]

Hey FF, you should bring your SE5a down to Harrison, OH for this years "Ohio Dawn Patrol" R/C event. Perhaps we can get Snacko to come out again with his camera. Come bask in the sauna-like heat with the rest of us!

http://www.ohiodawnpatrol.com/

Don't forget Warbirds over Indiana at the AMA site in Muncie. They are having both the Warbirds event and the Hoosier Dawn Patrol on the same weekend, it will be a very large event. Your P51 would be one of the stars of the show there.

David