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Took a build photo of the
DC3. Pretty much at the covering stage now. Have steerable tail
wheel and rud/elev/aileron linkage setup. The motor mounting is
interesting. I used the kit's balsa nacelle frame, reinforced
wtih carbon fiber spars. Glued spruce blocks to the ends of the
frames, for the motor mounting screws. I used the Guillow's
wheel halves for the motor mounts. Couldn't have asked for a
better mount. I have a whole bag of them, since I usually use
better wheels. Same goes for the red propellers. I was planning
on 3 blade props, but they load the motors too much. The GWS 350
motors w/heatsink using GWS 4530 props really seems to put out.
Love that twin harmonic hum. Not too worried about thrust now,
especially using the new 1320-3s Pro Lite lipo, with 17A cont
rating. The landing gear is mounted in GWS gear mounts, as I am
not very keen on gluing gear wire to wings with balsa. Most of
my plastic parts are cut out now. Gotta love those thin plastic
detail parts. They only look as good as the effort put into
them. Their pilots can actually look very good, and are about
the lightest available. The DC-3 has about 161" square wing area
now. Stock is something like 145, which is too small for the
weight of 2 motors, and lost wing area from the nacelles to
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