California Smelly...yak 2

[gunny11]

Very nice Scott! Love your idea of the louvres.

[MarnochS]

Canisters and Exhaust



Tack brazing to hold things in place




Found some aluminium louver vents for hot rods for hot air exhaust.

[MarnochS]

Movie build Sunday...........some progress

[ARUP]

That will be so funny!

[BryanB]

Loving it! Can't wait to see it with the winglets.

[MarnochS]

Cowl and engine mounting .....glad that's over.....step workout......



on to the canister installation.....

[gunny11]

The Stuka effect is what I'm calling, "Thinking outside the box" Look out gliders!

[MarnochS]

Exhaust stub cutaways


now I have to build a rack to hang the fuselage vertically to make mounting the cowl and engine easier.

For the Stuka "effect" ....after tow dive.......

[Dave Smith]

Laddie Mikulasko! Laddie cranked out a lot of designs, many featured in Model Airplane News and Flying Models. His favorite domain was flying boats. Search him on Youtube and you'll see some good stuff he developed.

[ARUP]

'...it's all about "looks" in California....'
That sounds like slot-time verbiage to me!

[ARUP]

Aren't things supposed to feel/fly kinda funny in Kali-four-knee-ay? lol

[Stew2]

Remind everyone this comes from a guy who flies a Bidule 180...........
Just sayin,...

Some people just go from bad to worse, but who's who among tug drivers is a very secret ballot, but all tug drivers are in front of glider guiders....most of the time...then they dump or get dumped!!!

I'd downsize to the wimpy 150, but I'm afraid of the workload for the DG1000. There is no replacement for displacement. Anybody seen my gas can?......

[MarnochS]

Headers and MTW 120K Canisters as that was the main purpose of the "field upgrade".....to get more header length ....and cool winglets.
Pictures in post #1

[lenb]

I think the words "looks better" and "Smellyak" don't really go together in the same sentence... but really it isn't about looks, it is about what the aerodynamics dictate for the amount of vertical fin area in the tail is necessary to compensate for the amount of vertical surface area added in the front by the longer nose. So the full scale design did it by lengthening the fuse and adding the dorsal fin. The nose had to be lengthened for balance since the turbo prop engine is so much lighter than the big fat radial. It will be interesting to see if the model ever knows the difference between the two designs. Really cool mods, Scott!! Really enjoy watching the process. Thanks for posting.

Remind everyone this comes from a guy who flies a Bidule 180...........
Just sayin,...

[Stew2]

It is a very Stuka looking tow plane.... Headers and cans? or the stock exhaust?