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Joe Di Profio 3D Pilot Procto Joe Offline Forum User LastOn: Mar 1^st, 2021 Join: Mar 13^th, 2011 Posts: 165 Reputation: 0 Cherry Brook Gender: Zodiac sign: Mood:	Re: Hurricane Reply #60 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 8:27am Had a look at it last night. Thinking on how to repair some of the buckling in the side of it. After the 3rd time I CAed my fingers to the fuse, I almost pressed the purchase button on the Aeroworks 30cc at GH. Will make another attempt tonight. PS- Wife is away all weekend, so I may make more progress.
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Re: Hurricane
Reply #61 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 8:46am

Steve Mosher wrote on Apr 25^th, 2012 at 6:38pm:

Great looking plane - gonna look awesome in the air!

Thanks Steve, I think it'll look better in the air than it will on the ground, at least once.. Wink

That darn wing is 3" (7.5 cm to those inclined) thick at the joint so there should be tons of landing "float", and except for one guy on RCU who tried scale 80 deg flaps (!) everyone else thought it flew and landed pretty good. Dan and Cool are already slavering over the thought of a Hurricane, Spitfire and P-40 flying cover for a B-25....
At 81" span I'm a bit smaller than their planes and running at 1/6 scale; I think they're 1/5.
I've got the air tank in the wing, am I supposed to fit the valve in there as well? Or sit it on top.

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Re: Hurricane
Reply #62 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 8:48am

Joe Di Profio wrote on Apr 26^th, 2012 at 8:27am:

Had a look at it last night. Thinking on how to repair some of the buckling in the side of it. After the 3rd time I CAed Angry

my fingers to the fuse, I almost pressed the purchase button on the Aeroworks 30cc at GH. Will make another attempt tonight.

PS- Wife is away all weekend, so I may make more progress.

hard to press keys with a fuse stuck to your hands.....

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Reply #63 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 10:22am

Nice looking Hurricane Sandy.
Looking forward to seeing it go on it's first mission.

As far as the air distribution valve is concerned, try to fit it in the fuse on the ply tray where the servos are installed.
You need to make sure that it is mounted very securely.
Using good linkages (no slop at all) and a short pushrod will make your air actuator function more reliably.

Do you have all your air connectors and air lines?
Using Robarts is a good choice.

Hope this helps

The air inlet valve(where you add the air) can be installed on the belly of the plane if you choose, or the side.
At least it's out of site on the bottom. That's where I put it.

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Reply #65 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 10:49am

I was hoping, with the tank in the wing, to get the valve in there as well....that way everything is in one piece/place and "no connectors". And yup I'm using robart. If there's room, I'm going to try and get the fill valve in the back of that huge radiator structure under the wing..again, eliminating a connector.

Now, what does a Hurricane gun sight look like.........MikeP, paging MikeP, where's MkIX when you need him..

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Re: Hurricane
Reply #66 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 10:52am

whitey wrote on Apr 26^th, 2012 at 10:44am:

Hey Sandy. I have a neat little trick for an air pump. You may already know this, but you simply take the inflator pin for inflating basketballs and footballs and slip it into some soft plyable airline. Then run the airline to your Robart connector. I use one of those cheap Crappy Tire 12 volt air pumps.

I have the Crappy Tire (aka Canjan Tire) pump, and the valve on it is a screw fit on the Robart valve for the air....works slick as a mmmmmm Lips Sealed

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Re: Hurricane
Reply #68 - Apr 27^th, 2012 at 10:20pm

Fingers wrote on Apr 25^th, 2012 at 2:08pm:

whitey wrote on Apr 25^th, 2012 at 1:19pm:

Joe, you may surprise yourself if you rolled up your sleeves and tackled that Extra. You can probably do more than you think Wink

of course he could, but that darn parrott whispering in his ear got him pshyced...

Parrot???? What Parrot???? Huh

Hmmmmm!!! Do I sense a new handle bewing in the air for Joe.?? Grin

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Re: Hurricane
Reply #72 - Nov 7^th, 2012 at 7:56pm

Hi Sandy:

Here a link to a few good pictures of the GM2 Mk.II gun sight

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=54193

It was used by both the Spitfire and the Hurricane prior to the arrival of the gyro sights. Earlier versions of the Mk.II have a circular sight glass. Select the glass shape depending on which variant you are modelling. Use the link below to determine which sight you need.

http://gunsight.jp/b/english/data/sight-e-e.htm

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Re: Hurricane
Reply #77 - Dec 16^th, 2012 at 2:13pm

ok, tail is done - under that screwed down cover is everything including a kitchen sink...very crowded Angry

Servos are installed and the wires are hooked up - both elevator and rudder going in the correct direction Smiley

Next is put an arm on the throttle and hook up a servo, then do something with the choke - I'd like a servo on it but not sure if there's enough room..... Undecided

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