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RCWarbirds.com Southern representative Lenny Smith sends us pictures of this great
r/c warbird event held in Opelika Alabama in the spring. |
| "We had great flying weather Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, but had 90% rain for Sunday. Very nice field for large warbirds,
close cropped and rolled grass, well over a thousand feet with good approaches.
I can highly recommend this as an event friendly to the warbird crowd. It was
similar to Bomber Field and Americus,Ga. in that its owned by one man who does
everything and loves warbirds. Last count I saw was 43 pilots, considering the
field and facilities available, there should have been more, but Top Gun is the
same weekend in the southeast"....Lenny | 
A look at some of the Warbirds at this event
| Wayne
Moore from Monroe, La. with his Ziroli P40. It has a Q75M engine swinging
a 21x13 3 blade Bolly prop and Robart retracts( main and tail). It has a glass
fuse and a custom cut foam wing sheeted and glassed with .75oz cloth and polyester
resin. Full cockpit and pilot with sliding canopy. Graphics are painted. Finish
is automotive base/clear, radio is JR.....Lenny.
(Click on picture to see
more.) |
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is Carl Brown of Monroe, La. with his Ziroli Zero. It has a Q75M and Robart retracts.
Glassed with .75oz cloth and polyester resin. Plane is all scratch built and hand
cut balsa and ply construction. Finish is automotive base/clear....Lenny.
(Click on picture to see more.)
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Wayne Moore
of Monroe, La. with his Ziroli Corsair. It is all built up balsa and ply construction.
Parts are from Precision Kit Cutters. Robart main gear retracts and a scale CJ
tailwheel assy. Model is glassed with .75oz cloth and polyester resin, finish
is automotive base/clear. Radio is JR, main gear wheels are from Iron Bay. Engine
is a ZDZ80cc inline twin( yeah an inline twin in a radial cowl) swinging a 22x8-14
Zinger.....Lenny (click on picture to see more) |  |
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Roy
Roberts of Lawrenceville, Ga. with his Ziroli F6F Hellcat. It has a 94in
wingspan and has a fiberglass fuse with a built up wing with plug in panels. Silkspan
and dope on balsa sheeting and finished with automotive lacquer base/clear. Powered
by a Q75 with Robart retracts. Futaba radio gear...Lenny (click
on picture to see more) |
Dave Fielder of
Oxford, Ga. with his Ziroli Corsair. It has a glass fuse with a built up wing.
Powered by a Q75 on RC Ignition, 93in wingspan, Robart retracts and weighs 33#.
Finish is latex color coats with Minwax acrylic clear. Futaba radio equipment.
....Lenny (click on picture to see more) |
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Carl
Brown from Monroe, La. with his American Eagle FW190A. It has a G62, Sierra
Precision retracts, and Futaba radio gear. It is glass and foam construction,
finish is automotive base/clear.....Lenny
(click on
picture to see more) |
Carl Brown again
with his Ziroli P47. All scratch built with balsa and ply, designed with plug
in outboard wing panels. Plane is powered by a G62 and has Robart retracts and
Futaba radio gear. Finished with .75oz cloth, polyester resin and automotive base/clear.....Lenny
(click on picture to see more) |
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| Thanks
again to Lenny Smith for the great photos and text. |
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