Hi All, just finished the refurb on my trusty old P47, took her up the feild today for test flight but far to windy so just got some photos to post.
Stuart from the Fighter Factory stripped the old finish off her and gave her a new coat of paint, i have replaced the receiver now on 2.4, put on new servos to elevators and ailerons,made up a new exhaust hopfully it wil be less noisy than the last one. Fitted a new set of up graded oleos to the retracts.
Replaced all the batteries and moved them from inside the fus to over the engine which has ment i didnt have to put any lead in the nose to balance which means the model is now 5lbs lighter!!.The old batteries were buried in the fus and when extracted i found i had the written the date on when i put them in, 05/06/2006 !!!!!! Tested them and found them to be still performing at 95% good old Nicads!!!
The decals and nose art Stuart did from the excellent masks from Flightline Graphics, and i am very pleased with he results.
So after about a year "Hairless Joe" is ready to go, just waiting for a nice Sunday to ground check and test fly.
Cheers for now Steve
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