Very nice planes Murphy.

Im the type of guy,

that would build a 1/4 scale R/C,
stick a camera in the Cockpit, And Hook all the Flight Controls to a receiver,
then take a Laptop with a HOTAS, Run/Configure the software,
link it to an external transmitter,
and open the Video Feed in a window and fly it in first person.

....lol...well 'Skate', you've got yourself a "Flight Simulator" then, don't cha'?...lol.
And...I'm about to fly the one you helped me build, still smooth as silk....See Ya!....

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Tks, nice to hear from you Nav...

All the $$$ you guys are talking about spending just to power your planes makes me glad all my RC planes are under 40", made of foam, and powered by $15 brushless motors!

Finishing up a foamy as we speak! Lol...

Sorry Murph, but at least I didn't send you the link for the $1100 dollar one..

Hey Murph, you given any thought to going to a belt drive reduction setup and using a larger prop with your existing engine?
I did this years ago with a 1/4 scale P-51, don't recall many of the specifics now,but I used the toothed drive belt from an R/C helo.
I built my own scale prop and used (I think) a 3 to 1 reduction and had a couple of weedeater motors powering the thing.
Kinda fuzzy on the details as this was over 30 years ago but I think you get the idea.
The reduction means you can swing a much larger prop than normal and the prop can have more pitch as well and the other big thing is it's cheaper and lighter than a larger engine.


WOLF

Interesting transmitter Murphy. I use a Dx7. Only fly foamies. Can't afford the more expensive ones.

I know what you mean Wolf....seen them before.
But it's a complex setup. And I could probably swing the $650 for the right engine.
The 5.5hp is just a 'little' short. It get's it off the ground, but just barely.
A couple more HP...and it would be perfect.

The belt drive thingme....wouldn't be something I would have time to work on to get right.

But I know what you mean.... great idea, if you have the talent for that kind of 'engineering'.

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Yeah ripper, that transmitter cost me an arm and a leg back in '94, it was 'state of the art', that was one of the first 'digital' PCM transmitters that came out.

Yeah, a little patience on the system build could have saved a few bucks.

JAMF..I bought the whole P-51 as a package deal, at an R/C show.
The model was still in the box, not put together, and the engine came with it.
I got the whole thing for about $600, so it seemed like a good deal.

I built it, and stuck the engine in, and flew it. That's when I found out why the guy sold it.
It was underpowered.

Live and learn.....

I was lucky to get it off the ground the few times I flew it.
It NEEDS that 7.5 hp engine.

Sad to see it sit up in the rafters....waste of money.
Maybe I'll try selling the 5.5hp, to help pay for the 7.5hp....

It might have flown right, if I didn't 'overbuild' the plane....I like fiberglass, so I was liberal.
I could have used 'Coverite' instead of fiberglass, and it would have been much lighter.
And I stuck on air retracts, tail retract, all the goodies.

Hehehe, I meant the PC build. Buying two optical drives and such...

OK...well about that....lol...

I now wish I'd have gotten the 'digital' hard drive.
It's the only slow part of the build.

The 'two' optical drives is the easy way to copy discs, one to the other.
Maybe I 'overbuilt' the one, I only needed two 'cheap' drives.......

Guess I 'over built', in the wrong place....on both counts.

SSDs only improve Windows Bootup by a few seconds..

its not worth it to blow $200 on a decent SSD with limited space/writes and to re-do you entire windows and re-learn how to install stuff to get the most performance and life from your SSD.

Yeah, save the money for the engine. You'll have more fun from a fast aircraft for the duration of the flight than shaving seconds from your PC's boot. Such an upgrade can wait till after a new engine.

I'm happy Skate.

I'm flying right now, with the other box...just landed.
Wife just got home...party is over...lol.

The reason I said that about the HDD, is when I check the new Win7 performance 'score' it gives me all 6.7's on every point except the HDD's...it gives me a 5.9 out of 7.0 perfect score.
The one slow spot, according to the Win7 'score'....anyway.

My RAM, CPU, all the rest, are very high scores. 6.7 and 6.9 out of 7.0

But that thing runs the flight sim without even turning the fan speeds up, it NEVER gets warm.
It stays at 32 degrees C, all during the game.
The hottest spot is my 3.0 USB 'fast' charging port...that gets up to 36 degrees C sometimes, and I don't even use it.
Never had anything get higher than 36 degrees.
CPU never works more than 30-40 percent, doing anything.
RAM doesn't get above 60%.

It's like it's coasting.

ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77; LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
CASE; Cooler Master HAF 932 RC-932-KKN5-GP R
PSU; CORSAIR HX750 750W RT
Intel CPU i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) 77W Quad-Core HD Graphics
MEM; CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
VIDEO; EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP SLI Support
HDD; 2 - Seagate Barracuda's 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
LITE-ON Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 12X DVD-RAM 8X BD-ROM SATA 12X Blu-ray Burner with Blu Ray 3D Feature
ASUS 24X DVD Burner - Black SATA Model
COOLING; Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
MNTR; SMSNG LED 23.6" 2MS HDMI
Win7 Professional SP1 64-bit
MSSWFF2 stick
Pro Throttle
Pro Pedals

Thank you Skate, every time I put the gear up

EVERY mechanical HDD gets a 5.9, Even my WD Black 1.5TB 64mb cache gets a 5.9,

my windows 7 boots to 3 screens in 9 seconds from Power on to Desktop (I Disabled/Overrode boot checks on my mainboard).

So Boot, Shows me Date and detected hardware for 2 seconds, Windows 7 Logo, for 6 Seconds. bam desktop.

I tweak my Startup list, turn off O/S Crap i dont use or need.

if i run the "Normal" Startup it goes up to 17 seconds.

Ahhh....good to know.
Couldn't figure that out, the big gap in performance scores.
Thought maybe I picked out the wrong HDD.
Well, we're all learning....when I stop...just start putting the dirt over me.

Murph, you need one of these in your Runstang.
http://www.quarterscalemerlin.com/

Hardwood flooring could "upgraded" to laminate. Much cheaper and who'd know?

I think you could save the cost of a motor.

Nice pics.