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Too late.

I love it! Air & Space always has a neat article on the inside back cover akin to this. The art is usually something whimsical along the same lines. Seat-of-the-pants flying: nothing else like it!

Found a work-around today; FC RX-7 door seals will fit quite well, they'll need to be trimmed about 2" at either end. The portion that goes under the bottom sill hold-down plate will have to be re-used from your old seals to fill in the gap. I cut out a section of my old seals that was in the best shape and used that. Works quite well, and it was a 1/2 hour trip to the JY, and $14 out the door!

Wow, NICE! Bet it's more than I can afford to put into one of those. What always bugs me about promotional literature for RC cars with lexan bodies is that they've got a paint job on the body that you wouldn't be able to do yourself. There's no way I'd be able to do that good of a job. ...but that would look great in off-white with a red stripe.

A really crappy job, at that.

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Bingo! That's the real Devil Z. One primary and several chase cars were built. Anything else is just pretty artwork in a manga / anime / video game. Not sure of the fate of the car, but here's more.

No kidding? I'll have to go digging this weekend, my door seals are next to non-existent. Any trouble getting them off / tips / tricks I should know? ...and as far as the McMaster seals are concerned, I couldn't find anything after an exhaustive search of their site.

*eye twitch* You.... ...bastard. The P-47 is the airframe for me, I know a lot of people will hold up its contemporaries as better, but I have my reasons. *peers closer at photo* Wait.That's CAF HQ in Midland, isn't it? I've been in that hangar numerous times. At least, it looks very similar, save for the lack of banners hanging from the rafters.

...I'm betting the V8 will drop right into the coupe, though. Looks hot from that angle.

They're fixed pitch, the spinner doesn't have cutouts in it for variable pitch. And yeah, the angle on them is pretty wild. Contra-rotating props on aircraft weren't that unheard of in that era, but this is indeed one of the earliest examples. You want to see something crazy with contra-rotating props, .

It's a Schneider Cup / Trophy aircraft - the entire racing series was specifically for seaplanes.

Not just back in the day, that photo is of a recently built and flown replica that tragically crashed and killed its owner / builder / pilot, Jim Wright. A prop counterweight is thought to be the culprit. Jim built both sets of wings, as well, the blue endurance wings in the photo and the red pylon racing set that the aircraft is never depicted with. Sad story, both the aircraft and builder had a very bright future in the airshow and racing circuit. Here's my personal favorite, the Macchi-Castoldi 72, 440.6 mph in 1934, while on FLOATS! Imagine what this thing would have done without all of that drag. The engine itself is a marvel of engineering, the Fiat AS-6 was two Fiat V-12s mated together, and it spun a counter-rotating prop. And an AS-6: The Schneider Cup races were really in a world all their own and gave rise to some amazing machinery.

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Daeron - more or less, the early 260s had bumpers just as you describe them, they are very similar - with a few minor differences - to 240 bumpers, and they've been mounted on shocks, with rubber and plastic trim pieces filling the gaps. Pulling the trim and collapsing the shocks is a fairly simple affair and makes the car appear as if it has 240 bumpers.

The Quest was a Mercury Villager.

Sounds as if that Fury had some power...and I think I know the guy, didn't he blow the doors off of an Accord that tried to race him once?

WOW. I'd kill for a set of those. Nice everything!

It's amazing that 12 to 14 years after the trend started, there are still morons running around street racing in Civics. (yes, I know Civics can be respectably quick, but the majority aren't, and street racing is STUPID.)

A stockless Thompson with a 100 rd drum mag or or Sten could probably fit in that space with ease. On a vehicle with more room, the options would really open up. However, I prefer GE products in 7.62 and a roof-mounted fully articulated turret with with a coil pulse tracking system, and a trunk-to-quarterpanel mounted Tyler-Barnett self-loading white phosphorus mortar battery. Like so:

Just chiming in, that's some GREAT work! Love the air hat! Get that sucker on a dyno, stat!

Ick...that's the equivalent of an out-of-proportion kit Ferrari. Still looks like a Z, just with all the 2000GT styling cues tacked on.

You must have met aux in person.