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I am fairly sure that this...whatever the hell it is will get sold on ( if it sells) to someone else who will again poke at it a bit, then give up and sell it on in a pointless cycle of deluded commerce, but I have seen worse being urged into the sky ( not very often, admittedly )  and always to at best hilarious and at worst potentially lethal effect. 

 

I hope it stays dangling from SOMEONE's ceiling.  Or that it gets destroyed in a suspiciously "Omen" type "accident".

 

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Seeing how the engine bearers don't reach the main bulkhead and the rest of the front is held on to it by presumably, four wood screws, I guess the concern is that after a bit of vibration and oil in the joints, the engine could go off on its own leaving the rest of the airframe behind.

 

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10 minutes ago, Robin Colbourne said:

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Seeing how the engine bearers don't reach the main bulkhead and the rest of the front is held on to it by presumably, four wood screws, I guess the concern is that after a bit of vibration and oil in the joints, the engine could go off on its own leaving the rest of the airframe behind.

 

It's not uncommon that engine bearings don't reach the "front bulkhead". That "bulkhead" is often just part no load bearing of a cowl, as this appears to be.

The model looks ugly, unattractive & possibly not particularly well built but no worse than many others being sold second hand.   

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22 hours ago, PatMc said:

It's not uncommon that engine bearings don't reach the "front bulkhead". That "bulkhead" is often just part no load bearing of a cowl, as this appears to be.

The model looks ugly, unattractive & possibly not particularly well built but no worse than many others being sold second hand.   

PatMc, I should have just said bulkhead.  I mean the pice of transverse piece of wood at the bottom of the windscreen with the throttle pushrod wire passing through it.

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