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Hangar	Aircraft	Category	Date	Preview
David Duckett	Dumas Kit #306, DHC-2 Beaver	Reference	07-Dec-10 18:48
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Xanadu tells the students the Fokker Triplane is probably not a good first flyer.
poppy	Scalemaster Ju-87B Stuka	Build	07-Dec-10 15:49
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500lb bomb and cradle. Bomb made from 3/4' PVC with shaped balsa front and rear. Fins are .020 sheet styrene. Cradle is 1/8' dowels and tubular plastic.
jerry campbell	Scratch Built Heinkel He 162A-2 Salamander/Volksjaeger	Build	07-Dec-10 14:04
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The gun troughs are painted black to hide the burnt gun powder residue.
jerry campbell	Scratch Built Heinkel He 162A-2 Salamander/Volksjaeger	Build	07-Dec-10 14:01
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The red on the cowling and the black around the exhaust.
John Cooper	Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat	Parked	07-Dec-10 08:23
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The Wildcat in formation with some of its older and more battered FAA and RAF comrades.
John Cooper	Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat	Parked	07-Dec-10 08:21
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The model, at over 28g, was much heavier than other , similar sized, WW2 models that I have built. The barrel-like fuselage is fairly massive and the short nose required many grams of weight for balance.

Hangar	Aircraft	Category	Date	Preview
John Cooper	Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat	Parked	07-Dec-10 08:17
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The model represents a Royal Navy Martlet used in North Africa in 1942. I tried to give it a dusty, desert-weathered finish.
John Cooper	Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat	Build	07-Dec-10 08:13
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Here you can see the balsa spars, that frication-fit into paper tubes in the wings.
John Cooper	Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat	Build	07-Dec-10 08:11
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I covered the model with grey tissue (chalked with light blue) and beige tissue (chalked with light brown)
John Cooper	Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat	Build	07-Dec-10 08:07
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I made the wings removable with sacrificial balsa spars. This has already saved the model from damage, after a nose dive into the gym floor during trimming.
John Cooper	Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat	Build	07-Dec-10 08:04
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A Dave Diels Wildcat (not a Hellcat). James Good: Would you please add a new aircraft - Dave Diels Engineering Plan #65. Grumman F4F Wildcat
flash52	Guillows Series 900 - P-51 Mustang	Flying	07-Dec-10 01:00
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Guillow's 500series P 40

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