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| Created: | Tue Jan 13 1987 |
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Hi everyone,
My wife both me a Top Flite P-39 AIRCOBRA for Christmas and a K&B .65
Has anybody, out there, have any experience with this kit.
Any information would be welcome.
I will keep you posted of my progress.
Jacques
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| 1383.1 | P-39 AIRCOBRA ASSISTANCE | POLAR::BEAUCHAMPK | Thu Nov 21 1991 21:26 | 7 | |
Hi Jacques, must be nice of your wife to buy you airplane kits for Xmas,
most people get socks or ties. The only thing I can offer is the use
of a workbench (and facilities) to build your kit on. I'm still working
on Brendalee to get me a telemaster though.
See you next week, Keith
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| 1383.2 | use pinking shears to cut your balsa. | POLAR::WHITTALL | Thu Nov 21 1991 21:38 | 7 | |
Boy, are you ever a spoiled, rotten kid- a plane and motor for xmas ! I
have to work overtime and save just to buy a new propeller.However I
would suggest using flour and water for glue,kleenex for a covering and
water paints for colouring (unless your wife lets you use your crayons.
(food colouring works too but Mom wont let me use it by myself.
All kidding aside, if I do know of someone who's built this kit, from
my club, I'll get some pointers from them.
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| 1383.3 | Finally started building | POLAR::SIBILLE | Fri Mar 26 1993 11:55 | 22 | |
I finally cleared most of my other rpoject to start building the Cobra.
At first glance I realised that this is not a project for beginers. Two
sheet plans showing side view of the body and top view of the wings.
Thats it. At the bottom of the plans there is a step by step assembly
expanation, comprising of a dozen drawing with the airplane at
different stage. Not to much explanation there. If you never build a
kit before don't try this one.
I whas equally deceived by the quality of the parts. The body sides
are awful. They don't match the plans and look like they where cut on a
band saw in 2 second. All the wing spars are bend one way and will have
to be straighten out before I can use them.
Other wise the kit seems complete with the hardware for the wheels
and all. All the plastic parts are well molded. The plane look like a
heavy design. The sides are made of thick balsa and the engine mount is
two one foot long piece of hard wood. The elevator is made of one piece
1/4" balsa. I whas tempted to redesign it but decided to build the
airplane as is.
I will keep you posted of my progress.
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| 1383.4 | More on construction | POLAR::SIBILLE | Wed Mar 31 1993 13:26 | 22 | |
Hi again,
The wings are now 80% completed. In doing them I found the first
missing part of the kit. The instructions calls for two wing attachment
block made of hard wood. They where both missing from the kit and I had
to make them out of an old piece of oak I had. Beside that It went very
well. Parts where well cut for the wings and did not need a lot of
adjusting. Be sure you figure out all the parts that you need before
starting because there is no list.
The body is still in two alfs. I found that so far the body is very
heavy and I wonder how much this kit is going to weight when finish. It
seem small enough for a size .40 engine but the wing area/weight ratio
suggest that you should not try it with anything smaller then a .60
I expect this model to be quit fast and I'm not sure I'm really
preapred enough to fly it yet.
Regards
Jacques
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