Hints & kinks

Model Airplane News, May 2001 by Newman, Jim

TOP DOG

This impressive Top Flite P-47 is Northport, NY, resident Al Squillante's first attempt at a scale project. Powered by an O.S. .91 4-stroke, this model is outfitted with a dummy radial engine, a scale cockpit and pilot, a 4-blade static propeller and Century Jet pneumatic retracts. Al also added auxiliary gas tanks, including one beneath the center fuselage that drops by remote, and he finished the P-47 in 21 st Century fabric.

KELLYHAWK FLYER

Jim Snyder of Lake Havasu, AZ, marveled at the reputation of the Thorpe T-18 as one of the best homebuilt planes of all time, so he created the 1/3-scale model pictured here. It has an 85inch wingspan and is powered by a Zenoah G-62. A true T-18 disciple, though, Jim also put together a 4-scale replica powered by a 1.2 4-stroke engine, and he says that the smaller plane's stellar performance inspired him to build the larger model. 4