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| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:32 |  | | Views : 2520 | | I wanted to fly it but glide test indicate the the horozontal tail is too small, it won't trim for a stable glide. Perhaps if the wing were more scale, ie 3 inches shorter, it would be stable but thee it wouldn't be a 1936 Comet model. That could be a future project, howerve. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:25 |  | | Views : 2470 | | Sitting next to a foam rc P 26. I had intended to make another Comet P 26 as an rc but the foam P 26 is so unstable (always wants to roll over on its back) I decided that isn"t a good idea. |
| Dale1416 | Guillows Series 300 - Piper Cub 95 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:23 |  | | Views : 3593 | | Spray painted with Krylon Sun yellow glass. I did not use all the decals in the kit. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:21 |  | | Views : 2449 | | I used butyrate dope on the tissue. I think it would have come out better with nitrate. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:18 |  | | Views : 2272 | | Well after 70 years I finally finished it. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:16 |  | | Views : 1265 | | Notice the wooden balsa prop. That's the way it was back in the day. |
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| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:14 |  | | Views : 1206 | | I used the color scheme of the Peashooter in the Air Force Museum. You can get goot photos from their web site. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Build | 17-Apr-10 14:11 |  | | Views : 1217 | | Its covered with Jap tissue as supplied in the kit. |
| Dale1416 | Guillows Series 800 - B-25 Mitchell | Build | 17-Apr-10 14:10 |  | | Views : 3787 | | My workshop, and the area of the house devoted to the model airplane hobby! |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Build | 17-Apr-10 14:09 |  | | Views : 1217 | | In checking against scale data the wing is about 3 inches longer than it should be. I suspect the Comet made that dimension accurate the model would be too large for the 10 cent model fleet which generally had a 16 inch wingspan. |
| Dale1416 | Guillows Series 2000 - B-29 Super Fortress | Reference | 17-Apr-10 14:06 |  | | Views : 5367 | | A reprint of an old snapshot taken in the mid 1940's with the first B-29 I built. This was a stick and tissue construction with solid balsa engines. I believe it was a "Cleveland" kit. In those days, most of the model airplanes I built were "Comet" kits. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:05 |  | | Views : 1214 | | As near as I can remember this was the first model airplane kit I ever tried to build, probably in 1939. I didn't finish it but I did cut myself on the split double edge razor blade used then to cut out the parts. |
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