WAR Corsair Update 4/9/2024 

Their just bored with their own lives, because they could never do anything like this themselves.

Adding the lights was always in the plans to do. Just wanted to get the plane inspected, so put off a few things that weren't required for inspection. Nav lights will be next. I can add a tail light strobe right now. the wires are there already. Just mount it and go.

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I'm pretty sure they never even built a paper airplane!

No two planes are ever built the same. So even a pre built harness would need mods.

@@Dynodon64 Good point. Probably best for me to consider an open framework fuselage design if I do get back into aviation. My contortionist days are over.

@@Robnord1 Mine are too, but I still need to do it from time to time. I pay the price later.

I'm glad your enjoying my project, and thanks for following long with me on this journey.

I was a Marine also. C130 engine and prop mechanic.

Can I ask where you saw one?

@@Dynodon64 there's one down at the air zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Its a static display in their restoration center.

Re construction to be exact. Thanks

Their just waiting on a back ordered prop governor.

In this case it doesn’t matter.

The only things I have added to the plane are three micro switches, a small LED driver, and a speed controller for the tail wheel motor. I added some 22 gauge wire to the tail circuit, removed some wires from the main gear circuit, and re used all of the wires that went out to the main gear switches. No wires were added to the mains circuits. So all said and done, there was less than a pound added to the whole plane spread out.

@@Dynodon64 It’s also little additions such as when you were working on the tail wheel. That all looked heavy for such a little airplane. It’s just my opinion and I’m no expert, but I feel the airplane should be as simple and light as possible for test flights.

@@stlmusic what test flight is he talking about?

@@stlmusic The tail is back to it's original set up. Just changed the centering spring type. No extra weight. Yes we want our planes to be as light as possible.

Helps keep the dust down too. Mine needs a bath.

Thanks for dropping in.

Thank you for that.

Not a Hanger Queen, a Queen of the Airport, get it right.

Everything I have made changes to , is for the better. Easier to follow and less wires to get the same results.

Should be done with this job, this coming weekend.

In todays world, everyone has to have everything right now. No pateint anymore.

No dates set. When the plane is ready, it will tell me. My last couple of fast taxi testing was pretty telling. So soon I hope. It gets better every time I make an adjustment. It tells me that in, how it responds to the adjustments. If that makes any sense to you.

Yeah I thought it was pretty funny after I said it.

No two planes are built the same from plans or kits. Everyone does their own mods, and uses different instruments.

G'day, Scratch-build Projects, which begin with a set of Plans and a desire to finish with an Aeroplane...; are called that because of all the Head-scratching which occurred while trying to figure out what in the blue blazes of Hell the Designer actually expected the Builder to do at every point...(!). And from what I've gleaned, Kit-Build Projects can be a whole lot more murky than that - because the further the Customer lives from the Factory (making an angry visitation more difficult...), then the less likely it is that the Parts supplied actually fit each other, or have been built in a way that doesn't require complicated re-engineering before being put together to constitute anything which a sane person would want to fly within. Currently I'm watching an "Aerodrome Aircraft Sopwith Camel Replica Kit" (Riveted Aluminium Wings with Clark-Y Aerofoils, Aluminium-Tube Tail, Welded 4130 Chrome-Moly Steel Tube Fuselage - a Rotec Radial...; in Melbourne Oz, clear across the Pacific Ocean from where they shipped the ill-fitting mis-shapen substandard Components to the bloke who's redesigning & remaking vast chunks of what he already paid for - before it goes into what he intends to sit inside and use to commit Levitation while playing with his Biggles Fantasy (!). You, too, may see his sometimes infuriated progress, his Videos are posted to "Scott Mathews Channel" Here on RU-vid. He's an ex-RAAF maintenance Type, who's already built and flies a Zenith Cruiser - so his Camel's a great bit of Work to watch coming together. But I reckon the people who shipped that Kit fully deserve whatever subsequently goes wrong with their Lives ; from the shitty fit of the bits which they shipped out to Oz, for him to try to tinker together and cobble-up to become an Aeroplane worthy of the name..., after taking his money. He's rather more polite about it than I am, but sometimes he sounds - off camera, to be talking through gritted teeth as he explains the various little Mysteries...(!). I suspect that the problem is that until and unless an Outfit gets to be as big a Business as RANS or something similar, then Plans Sellers and Kit Manufacturers are basically underfunded Ambition-driven Wannabes and Tryhards, all desperately trying to find and satisfy enough paying Customers as to be able to pay their own Bills and make up the Wages at the end of the Week - so ALL operating & manufacturing Cost are cut to a bare minimum... ("There, that'll do..." ; being the apparent standard of Qwality Kontroll which they can afford to apply...!). And, also..., they DESIGNED the thing - so every aspect of their own Creation is completely obvious to them, inside their own mind ; so often they have real difficultues in imagining what other people might have trouble grasping and visualising - and therefore thus and because, their "explanations" are often vague, ambiguous and further confuzzling, if they reply at all...(!). Because the person who actually made up and shipped the kit was probably a minor Employee - who doesn't work there any more & so can't be consulted as to what was sent out, to whom, or how it was supposed to be put together. Oopsie ! It seems to be a bit of a Generic Thing, within the DIY Aeroplane Support Industries ; wherein Marketing Jism and WIBNIfery (Wouldn't It Be Nice..., If !?!) appear to greatly shape the "playing-field"... (!). But, Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

@@WarblesOnALot I have been following Scotts channel ever since you told about him. I am surprised on how much info is not in the prints. I keep thinking, every video I watch, why isn't that in the prints? He's doing a great job, and as I stated in another post here, no two planes are ever built the same from a set of plans.

I can turn down the voltage or current to dim the LED's . You also have to remember, this plane is in a hanger and the lighting is low. Once you get them out in direct sunlight, you probably won't even be able to see them.

Is that supposed to be a joke or something.

Is the other plane in the video a hanger queen also.

@@brianeisner492 it seems so. Anything, more direct will get "your a$s banned". lol

@@brianeisner492 That plane had a prop strike which required an engine tear down. So the engine was overhauled because other problems were found. Just waiting on the prop governor to show up.

Only if you like being strapped to a wing. It's a single seat plane. LOL

The way I mounted them in the round disc, I know how it goes in the panel. It will only go in one way.

@@Dynodon64 I knew you had something figured out.

I pick it up by with an engine hoist jack behind the prop, around the gearbox housing. You only need it off the ground an inch or two.

This makes no sense, why make a comment that is completely meaningless to anyone here? 🤷‍♂🤦‍♂

@@plumberman19 It was a site to see.

He built the aircraft and he is very intelligent.

Have you ever seen the wiring behand any aircraft instrument panel? You would be shocked.

@@Dynodon64 yes I have been in many aircraft from the pedok tube at the point end to the afterburners. I was a tool and die maker before I was a machinist for the Air Force. I have been every place in aircraft including instruments panels and I have changed instruments. I have seen more wire than most people I know. Also I had access to all of the technical manuals for every thing I worked on and had to have that book with me for any system or part to be removed. When aircraft mechanics cannot get a screw out to work on removing a part or panels because they cannot use a screwdriver and strip the head. GUESS WHO THEY CALL? I HAVE WORKED IN MANY PLACES IN DIFFERENT AIRCRAFT. I am a skilled machinist. I have made so many parts for critical places. Even have to take the piece of metal and have it inspected NDI to make sure it had no flaws before I could begin making the part. SO YES I HAVE SEEN THE WIRING EVERYWHERE IN AIRCRAFT. HAD BOOKS FOR THIS TYPE OF WORK TOO. AS A HOBBY BEFORE I WAS IN THE AIR FORCE I STUDIED ELECTRONICS AND REPAIRED CB AND HAM RADIOS. DID THAT FOR YEARS AFTER I GOT OUT OF THE MILITARY. I HAVE BEEN IN A WHEELCHAIR FOR 40 YEARS AND HAVE BEEN A GUNSMITH UNTIL 5 YEARS AGO. WHILE I WAS IN THE AIR FORCE THE COMMANDER OF THE BASE WAS GOING TO BE PROMOTED TO BRIGADIER GENERAL AND TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER BASE. AS A GIFT I MADE HIM A REVOLVER BASED OFF OF THE RUGER SUPPER BLACKHAWK MADE FROM THE BEST METAL THE AIR FORCE HAD TO OFFER . MADE EVERY PART EXCEPT FOR THE SPRINGS AND THE GRIPS. FULLY FUNCTIONAL RIFLING IN THE BARREL TOO. I THINK THAT WAS THE HARDEST PART TO MAKE. HAD TO MAKE 2 BROACHES AND HEAT TREAT

@@Dynodon64 I meant no disrespect for the rant that I just posted so please don't delete me. I enjoyed watching you work and I like the way you think. I think you are a very smart man and I have ALWAYS said so.

@@Dynodon64 Oh!! Sorry for the ranting I see now you were talking to someone else. That is what happens when I Assume = I did not want to make a Ass/u/me but I did (so sorry about this)...

Some people have no faith anymore.