Wow, does that prop rotation look WEIRD! I know it's due to the frame rate vs the engine speed, but I've never seen it THAT BAD on plane videos before.
This is great! My uncle was 2nd Lt John Dains of the 47th Pursuit Squadron, 15th Pursuit group based at Wheeler/Haleiwa. He got airborn on December 7th and shot down the first Japanese aircraft. He flew both the P-40 and P-36 that day. Unfortunately, he was killed by friendly fire while trying to land back at Wheeler in his P-36 alongside the others from the 47th. He would have been proud to see this creation, I'm sure. Best of luck sir
I was at Loves Landing when Steve flew your aircraft and you were putting his engine into your trailer to go down to SnF. The sound your engine made on the flypast was awesome. I wish you every success with your project. Regards from South Africa.
Did you ever consider designing and building a 100% scale replica of the small Curtiss-Wright CW-21 interceptor? It was a light weight fighter design with a high climb rate. It had some (limited) success against Japanese fighters in the Dutch East Indies in 1942. With better training and preparation of the Dutch pilots it would have fared even better... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright_CW-21
My first house I bought, in my hometown in Canada, was previously owned by a couple who lived there from 1969 until the husband passed away in 2017. All this to say, he worked as an aeronautical engineer locally, and was born in Linz! So greetings, from Canada.
Very interesting! One day I would like to go to to Canada to BC for visiting an old friend from Vancouver Island and doing some researching about Sasquatch there. Many Greetings! 😎👍🏔🍺🍀
since it's fixed gear, why not build a set of wheel pants and call it a Hawk 75, which is basically a P-36 with fixed gear. There is only one remaining Hawk 75, and it is in the Thai Air Force museum in Bangkok.
Looking forward to the release of these kits. Even though these are smaller scale, they look the part and have their own thing going instead of looking like a scaled down fighter. I love it.
Looks great, especially in the air. Apart from the gear being down, it looked like the real thing and it sounds so wonderful too. A lot of fun I suspect ✌️👍😊
Very neat little aircraft. I'm wondering that this aircraft has any storage compartment? I mean for a smaller or midsized duffle bag for example, in what a man can carry his stuffs for a week holiday?
I can't wait to see the retractable undercarriage one! A paintscheme tribute to Phil Rasmussen's P-36 would be awesome, he shot down a Zero over Pearl Harbor on 7th of December, 1941. I love the place too, a very nice little landing strip, real backyard airstrip. What would be the range of this little aircraft? Where are the fueltank (or tanks, if they are in the wings), and how much fuel can be stored?
