Kevin K's Pawnee Restorations

[MarnochS]

Hi Kevin,

I add little blocks inside to minimize the bending load on the screws and keep the shocks centered.



Scott

[Sinkhappens86]

Great idea Scott!

[Sinkhappens86]

How do you make a good towplane even better? More power. The new DLE 130 is going into the Swiss Pawnee.

[Sinkhappens86]

A little break from building in this thread, was able to maiden the Yellow Pawnee at Cumberland. Spent about half the day waiting for the gusty winds to calm down, then the wind started back up as soon as I took off. Despite the winds, it flew great! Towed the rest of the weekend with it!

[Sinkhappens86]

Back to the Swiss Pawnee, fuel tanks are built, a little replacement covering done on the fuse to match the rudder, elevator and wingtip repaired. Picked up servos from Jeremy at Cumberland, thanks ModelBox!

[Swiss1]

Your welcome Kevin, will i need to get paint matched for this bird too!

Jeremy

SCC AAA TT TN

[Sinkhappens86]

Nope, all set for this one!

[horsefeetky]

wont hurt to run some hinge gap seal tape on those tail parts.. might help a tad at very slow speed near landing..

[Sinkhappens86]

Haven't had any issues with the other two, but will think about it!

[Sinkhappens86]

Not much left now

[Steve P]

Progress!

Little known fact... the original Swiss Pawnee was one of the first kits delivered and served as the Horizon Hobby promotional build for Fly RC Magazine. When more appeared on the scene, I dressed it up differently so it didn’t look like every other one. It also went from the stock 80 to a DA120 with the help of Len who built the internal canister section in the fuselage. We learned the 100s being flown at the JR Aerotow needed a little more “mo” to overcome the plane’s drag when hauling bigger or slippery stuff.

Good to know some of its surviving parts will fly again. Thanks for sharing your efforts.

[Sinkhappens86]

Thanks for the history and motivation Steve! Progress today.

[Sinkhappens86]

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[Steve P]

Gotta get that N number off the fuselage and go with HB-KEV there and on the wings. ;-)

[Sinkhappens86]

Thats way better than what I was gonna do! Great idea!

[Soarntz]

Looking good 😊

[louierc]

I have seen some info on larger, softer tires - 6" or 7". Can anyone provide a source for replacement tires for the Pawnee.

[Sinkhappens86]

These are the ones I've been using. The Sullivan wheels are also good.

https://www.dubro.com/products/treaded-lightweight-wheel-40-80

https://www.towerhobbies.com/product/sky-airflight-wheel-wtreads-7-x-2/SUL887.html

[Sinkhappens86]

I think I might have gotten the hang of this Pawnee thing.

[Sinkhappens86]

A little break from the 185 build. Jack came over and we started to convert his Pawnee to a tow plane!