New guy checking in. :)

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crankbndr wrote:I would like to see more photos of your P-38 with two Golden Bees, pretty cool.
And see that black shelving unit in your photo, your going to need a wwwaaaayyyy bigger one!
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Welcome to the CEF!!!! :afraid:


PS have a greenie!

Thanks for the welcome and for others chipping in here with projects and photos.  Nice stuff.

Attached some pictures of the P-38.  I tried to find some old pictures when it was fresh with no battle damage, but came up short.

I built it from scratch building up the wing but mostly used hollowed out balsa blocks for the twin booms and cockpit.  Just to be clear.....I'm not good at this but the result was passable and it flies well.  Really nice when the .049's are in sync.  I get them that way then top off the tanks.













I modeled this on the later versions of the P-38.  I would have liked to model it on the earlier more streamlined P-38 but the engine nacelles would not be large enough to house the engines.

I love those Comet plans roddie but agree, cutting out all of those parts would take a lot of Xacto skills and patience.  Looking at them I can see how much I missed the scale of the cockpit module.  Part of it was by necessity as the canopy was one I had on-hand and no where near scale for the P-38.

Last time I flew it was about 25 years ago.  I would guess I have about twenty flights on it without a significant negative event.  I would always top off the inside engine last hoping that the outside engine would quit first.  If it didn't it would surely spin in towards me.  

Wing loading is quite high and when the last engine quit it would fall like a rock, but by that time I had it near the ground anyway.  

I sold the original GB's long ago and as mentioned recently replaced them.  When I did I neglected to reshim the engines using small washers to get the thrust plane right, really noticable in the nose-on photo.  Took me awhile to get it right originally, so I will have to go through that all over again.  

When I googled tether Rivieras I found that video Shawn.  I gather that you still have it as for a moment I thought it might be mine as the tires are well worn.  

I haven't fired any of them up yet.  However the one on the left is complete and has not be ran, so I will probably never try that one.  The two blue Rivieras have been well used.  The first Riveria I bought came in a package with the Baja Bug and the F1 Wen-mac racer.

sdjjadk wrote:Here is a video of my Riviera.


Shawn

Shawn, just noticed your Southern Maryland location. We lived in Great Mills for many years then moved to Leonardtown then to Florida. We now live in West Virginia.

First lived in Pensacola when I was in the Navy, then transferred to Jacksonville (lived in Orange Park) for five great years. When we retired we moved down to Spring Hill in Florida and spent about twenty years there before moving to a little no stop light town here in WV called Capon Bridge.

My daughter lived in Valley Lee for awhile and we always enjoyed a trip down to Evans restaurant near Piney Point. Nice country there in SM.