Thread: What planes are these?

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Originally Posted by Dq383500

Could the first be a DC-10?

No. The DC-10 is a wide bodied 3 engined airliner/cargo jet.

The question is, just what are you growing in your back yard to bring 'em in????

The OV-10s were used widely in Vietnam for forward air control. They were the crazy pilots who flew over enemy areas hoping to get shot at so the enemy would reveal themselves. Then they would turn around and fire a smoke rocket to mark the spot and the fast movers or A1Es would come in and pound them. Great they are being put to good civilian use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OV-10_Bronco

The were preceded by the Cessna O1 and O2.

Now things are really getting serious with monster water tankers, check out this 747!

http://www.spottersvideo.com/view/80/747-water-tanker/

Pat

Originally Posted by Stu Cool

The OV-10s were used widely in Vietnam for forward air control. They were the crazy pilots who flew over enemy areas hoping to get shot at so the enemy would reveal themselves. Then they would turn around and fire a smoke rocket to mark the spot and the fast movers or A1Es would come in and pound them. Great they are being put to good civilian use.

Pat

Oh sure, calling air crew dudes names!!!!! Next thing you know, you'll be calling PJ's crazy dudes!!!!!

The OV-10, A1E, and Sandy pilots were a bunch of moderately insane dudes!!!! Might as well have painted them Florescent Orange and put big black targets on them!!! As a former Air Resuce guy, my hat is off to those Pilots, man they sure did their job well, making our job a heck of a lot easier!!!

No pot in our back yard, just a fire somewhere outside of town!
Glad these guys were around to snuff it out!
Since you guys mentioned some millitary uses of the Bronco, here is another plane made to fly with chunks missing!

Originally Posted by stovens

No pot in our back yard, just a fire somewhere outside of town!
Glad these guys were around to snuff it out!
Since you guys mentioned some millitary uses of the Bronco, here is another plane made to fly with chunks missing!

WartHog or Tank killer, I have a scale R/C kit of this one with a 99" wingspan! Kool plane.

Pat

Pat
We saw one a few years ago at the Nevado Air Show. It was a stripped down model that did some incredible stuff in the air. We were talking to one of the pilots about it and he said, they wouldn't dare do the stuff that the Colonel did. Evidently they stripped hes plane of some of the armour and other non essentials for civilian air shows. The thing could practically hover in the air!
The little gatling gun on the front is a bit intimidating!
How's the R/c plane fly? 99"wing span is impressive!

Thanks for posting the pics Steve. I love planes and haven't seen those before. Would be pretty cool to have them buzzing around here, just not on business of course.

Originally Posted by stovens

The little gatling gun on the front is a bit intimidating!
How's the R/c plane fly? 99"wing span is impressive!

The little gatling gun was 50cal. The pilots said that it felt like it stopped in air when it shot!

It's still in the box, I have many kits, I also have a scale F-86 Saber jet with ducted fan. Kit cost around $2600.00 it's also about 100" wing span, I sold a scale F7F Tiger Cat that my wife and I built from scratch with a 106" wing span with twin 3.8 cc motors turning 22" props. I have 4 different P38 kits, P-39. I sold a 14 foot wing span B-25, we could not set it up in the living room of our old house. I have about 50 kits that will be built as time goes, once we get more of the house remodled, and get the spare room back, to make it into a hobby room.
I also have the A-1 skyraider which was also a Sandy's plane

Pat

Must be hard finding space for 7 ft wingspan planes! I take it the wings are removeable?

Yes they do! They can still be a hassle. We flew a B-36 for a friend of ours at air show, it had a 16'8' wing span, and had 6 pusher motors and 4 dummy jet engines, that wing was in 3 parts, but someone else flew it for him, and he rekit it(Crashed) not to much left to pick up!
I sold the Weeks Special Bi-plane in the pic, it had a 6' wing span, and a 64cc motor and spon a 24" prop and could stop going vertical, and then accelerate straight up, and had 24 oz's of smoke (Paraffin oil injected) that would only last about 6 minutes.
Tha other plane I'm starting is a Cap 21 with a 102" wing span, and a 2.0cc motor with a 22" prop.
I have built planes since I was 8yrs old.

Pat

Holy buckets Pat, think that one engine is bigger then the one in my Escort!!!!!

Wow nice engine! Can you turbocharge it?2 stroke i know

The motor on the far left is out of the Fokker D-VII Tri-plane (also called a flying chester drawers or snoopy's plane) behind them, it's a 38cc and the plane has a 6' wing span, and they are a Bit__ to land and not flip over.
I have over 100 airplane motors of every type & size, even Wankle rotory's for my smaller B-25
And lets not forget the polit that has jump out if the plane happens to get hit, he's R/C also!

Pat

thats cool stuff built some sticks and paper planes that had rubber band power but nothing like your stuff but i did paint some of the real deal for jon s. that wart hog is something.. i seen one at a air show at traverse city.the engines were so big you could just about put a small car in the engine .that thing was not noise as one would think it could come down .and blow you away you would not have a chance