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P-38F Lightning model airplane plan

P-38F Lightning

Aeromodeler's P-38F Lightning

Nice scale P38 rubber band powered. Plans are in good shape and well detailed. Nice starter for the scratch builders.

Flys well and relatively easy to fly. Video shows a successful flight with a slight crash at the end for this wheel-less model.
Great pre-build for larger models. Demonstrates flying characteristics of this unique fighter.

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ID: 83087
File Size: 1.6 MB
Type: Airplane
Class: Free-Flight
Use: Fighter
Motor: Rubber-Band-Powered
Motor Size:Not-Powered 
Wingspan: Less-Than-50cm (20in)
Publisher: Aeromodeler
Magazines:  More at RCBookcase
Designer: Richard Falconer
Date: 12/1985
Weight Class:100g-To-200g (3.5oz-To-7.0oz)
Material:Various-Wood-Types
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Added: 02/04/2015 15:59
Updated: 15/01/16 07:52:23pm
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Plan ID:83087
Class:Free-Flight
Model Type:Airplane
Aircraft Use:Fighter
Wingspan Class:Less-Than-50cm (20in)
Wing Position:Mid-Mounted-Wing
Wing Style:Eliptical
Wing Dihedral:Dihedral
Landing Gear:Skid
Motor Type:Rubber-Band-Powered
Motor Size:Not-Powered 
Number of Motors:1-Tractor
Weight Class:100g-To-200g (3.5oz-To-7.0oz)
Material:Various-Wood-Types
Construction Skills:Novice
Pilot Skills:Novice
Publisher:Aeromodeler
Magazines:  More at RCBookcase
Date:12/1985
Designer:Richard Falconer
Restorer:algy2
Category:PDF Bitmap Wood Plans from Magazines
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Date:02/04/2015 15:59
Views:9978
Downloads:841
Rating:4.38(8Votes)
File size:1.6 MB
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Date:02/04/2015 15:59
Views:9978
Downloads:841
Rating:4.38(8Votes)
File size:1.6 MB

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Falconer P-38 tom arnold on 13/01/2019 22:55
This is an excellent plan by Richard Falconer and will give great flights with good trimming. The video is NOT built from this plan but from a Dumas kit---very different. The only changes I made were to move the motor peg forward a bay and to enlarge the stab a bit. This is a stand alone plan for free flight rubber scale and is not a "starter" for radio control. There is far too many differences between free flight scale and a radio control version and an RC builder would not learn much at all that is transferable. Besides this model is as complicated and challenging to build as any RC model. For free flight rubber scale, though, it is superb.

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