mike skingle

Ah Your tank appears to be rectangular and difference in the cylinder height makes up the difference. Also Very handy seeing how the wing is constucted as I have a bigger hole to cut in mine. So will reinforce the skin with some glass cloth.

Where did you mount the tank in you hurricane? You don't seem to have any running problems. I have the same hurricane and due to a shortage of laser 200.inlines I have fitted a laser 180 but to get the fuel tank any where near the level of the carb it'll have to go in the wing and on the bottom skin of the wing gets the centre carb only 2/3 of the way up the tank. The laser 180 is only 12mm taller than the laser 100 cylinder.

I waited so long for a laser 360v I ended up buying a second hand one.

Yes I would like a 70cc Vtwin. Please

Hi David I have an alpha f86 that needs a new home if you're interested. Kind regards Mike

Hi Jon a 90cc radial for me please.

Hi Jon Pm sent Cheers Mike

Hi Jon What size prop would you suggest for the laser 200 FT? I had it mounted in a corsair but was waiting on parts so I mounted it in an xtrawot and used a 18x8 g sonic. It went like a rat up a drain pipe! So I was thinking maybe something bigger 20x8 maybe? Ron have you flown the Wotswot xl yet how did it go?

Hi Jon I'd like a radial as discussed previously the 360v twin maybe adequate for my big corsair but a 540 3 cylinder radial would be great. So that's my vote and a 200inline and the future 360inline as that projects going to need a bit more work.

Very nice Ron The extra cooling may help in the summer months.?

When the engines running it'll make a great hand warmer on a day like today

Ron looks goods and sounded good on the video. Looking forward to seeing the flight video. Wheres your cooling air exit?

Hi Ron the exhaust is looking good and so is the weather, are ypu going to get to fly the mustang this week?

During the war they just glad to have 2 wings from the same plane!

Ron a set of exhusts stacks would be great. One of the guys bought his SLR camera got some great pictures but it shows the blemishes in the paint work. YouCut_20220320_221930927.mp4

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Looking good Ron, one day I'll have to get a 3d printer and work out how to use it but at the moment uploading the flight videos is proving to be a challenge.

YouCut_20211117_215733831.mp4 YouCut_20211117_215733831.mp4 YouCut_20211117_215733831.mp4 16x8 on half throttle should have it flying around nicely. Mine has no exhausts, the holes are just covered by black gaffer tape. One day I'll sort them out.

For these flights, I think 6 in total a 18x8 G-sonic was use it flew very well, mostly at half throttle, vertical performance was excellent.

Looks good Ron Flew the mustang today with CG at 140mm flies great and no sudden take offs. When I get a chance to edit the video I'll post some more but the file size is to big at the moment. YouCut_20220319_074827353.mp4

Repairs have made some progress. The firewall is almost ready to be glued in place along with another new former, after removing the old broken bits. Best of all the cowl still fits. Ron Sorry I can't use your 10mm threaded rod method had to resort to bolting the engine on the firewall and lining it up with the spinner on the cowl. as you can see the engine mount is outside the original fuselage, but just fits inside the cowl so all good.

Ron the firewall looks good. It's not so much will the firewall coming out of the fuselage. It's will the fuselage keep up with the firewall and engine. The Spitfire had a bit of an accident while I was removing the bulkhead and a repair made by the previous owner gave way. I checked the CG with the engine in and it's 140mm from the leading edge the manual says 120mm, so a bit of weight can go up the front unlike the P51D. My previous Spitfire needed some lead infront so not unexpected. The baffling is making progress. i just need to sort out the radiators and get the bulkhead and firewall glued in. The firewall has to be about 5mm bigger than the fuselage to allow for the engine mount and to keep the engine in the right place.

Ron the firewall looks good. It's not so much will the firewall coming out of the fuselage. It's will the fuselage keep up with the firewall and engine. The Spitfire had a bit of an accident while I was removing the bulkhead and a repair made by the previous owner gave way. I checked the CG with the engine in and it's 140mm from the leading edge the manual says 120mm, so a bit of weight can go up the front unlike the P51D. My previous Spitfire needed some lead infront so not unexpected. The baffling is making progress. i just need to sort out the radiators and get the bulkhead and firewall glued in. The firewall has to be about 5mm bigger than the fuselage to allow for the engine mount and to keep the engine in the right place.

The firewall is made from 18mm ply, the fuselage surface was abraded and fibreglass cloth was laid down to increase the glue surface area before the firewall went in, as for ease of access I had removed the top half of the fuselage back to the firewall. The glass cloth was then folded over the front of the firewall. It seams to have worked so far. Ron my original idea was to use a set of keleo exhaust but by building the baffling on the cowl it became very difficult to route the exhuast and to then get the cowl on with out compromising the baffling. It was also quicker to put the exhuast out the bottom of the cowl and get flying it. You could pass the air across the cylinders in the lower half of the cowl and then up into the upper half and out both sets of exhausts to increase exit area and draw. My system has only been tested and works at ambient temperature of 16°C when we get some warmer days it'll be interesting to see how well it works. The ground run will be the most challenging part, I found even slowing the idle got things warming up.