Hanger 9 1/5th Scale P-51C

by Ed Couch
(Fort Worth, Texas)

Gear hanging, time to put up or shut up!

This Hanger-9 P-51 was basically an assembled ARF (all ready to fly) kit when I purchased it. It came with retracts and servos already mounted. I bought it for the expressed purpose of fitting the largest electric motor I had available which was my 80 by 100 mm (250KV)motor.

The Aircraft wad previously mounted to a Saito 220 engine, but the owner was scared of the vehicle.

The motor I installed has the horsepower of a 70cc fuel engine and swings a 22/12 APC prop on 11 3700 mil batteries (2 4/3700 and 1 3/3700 lipoly packs in series).

A 100 amp Turnigy ESC keeps control of the horsepower. Radio is the Spektrum DX-7. JR and HiTec servos abound throughout.

This is one Haus of a power combination. You cannot hold onto it with one hand at full throttle!

The Stang flies at over a 100 miles an hour at full throttle but lands beautifully wheels-on or 3-points with 40 degrees of flaps.

I am still tweaking the stock landing gears at this time. I have them about perfect now, although the first couple of flights were interesting. The gear on the right side slipped the ball link and went ruptured duck on me twice. So single gear landing techniques came into play.

No problems as the vehicle does what you ask it too. Very solid in all RC scale aerobatic maneuvers. She tracks well throughout flight envelope. She's as good a flying P-51 as I have flown in over 45 + years flying RC.

Vehicle comes in at about 19 pounds but handles much lighter. Solid and not the least bit floaty in ground effect. Other than the landing gears, no other problems encountered in over two dozen flights.

Aircraft was named after wife of 25 years "Betty Jo II". Panel lines were done after photo shown with a Monokote Marking Pen. The whole aircraft was given a coat of Testors Dullcoat as fuel proofing, so fuel is not a problem.

Serial numbers were changed as well as radio call sign on fuselage. Still have a little work to do to finish, but we be close to being done. "Sierra Hotel".

Ed

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by: Robert Darth

Thanks for taking the time to look,

For the price, it seems it may be OK. Heck, I wouldn't have even noticed it not having the offset had you not told me.

But now it may bug me if I choose to go this route, haha.

You have yourself a Happy New year,

Bob

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Stang Gear
by: Ed Couch

As stated earlier the gear is what comes in the kit. It is similar to the Robart but thats about all I can tell you. They do not have any name that is visible to me at this time. The struts are also similar to the Robart but thats about all I can say at this time. The struts should be offset as on the real P-51 but are supplied as a straight leg.

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Landing Gear for Stang
by: Anonymous

Bob

The landing gear is stock mechanical type using a servo (JR 791) for each gear. The struts are also furnished with the kit as well. As these are part of the makeup of the kit itself I plan on using them for the forseeable future but eventually may change out for Robart air and new offset struts to keep things more scale. I can live with them for a while longer and they do work once everything is set up properly. ed

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What type fo gear does it have?
by: Robert Darth

It's truly amazing how far electrics have evolved over the years. I sure would like to see that bird fly.

My question is, what type of landing gear comes stock with that plane? I'm looking to get an ARF that I can sparse up similar to what you did. But I am concerned with the type of landing gear to have.

Thanks in advanced for you reply. Again, sure is a pretty bird you've got!

Bob