RC India

Hi Guys,

This is my first ESM Kit and i am very impressed with the kind of quality & detailing.

Just pulled the kit of the Box it just awesomeeeeee and Huge.

Wingspan is 103.9" or nearly close to 9 feet and Length is 70.5"

With this also bought the retracts and scale spinner nuts.

Now i need to decide to what power set-up to use have not yet bought it.

Planning to put 120 4 stroke either ASP or may think of putting a gasser say 20cc if it will fit or should i convert it to electric need some suggestions.

Also any suggestions on what torque servos to use.

Also very impressed with the time given by the RCDhamaka guys excellent customer service.

I THINK I WILL SLEEP WITH THE KIT NEXT TO ME.

Welcome to RC India :)

The plane looks really nice !  Looking forward to the build and maiden !

Why would any one want to make such scale planes electric ;)

Welcome to the forum and very nice kit.
Please post more pics and do share with us on your prev builds and experiences.

Also this built will take time over a period of time as i only get time only once in a way as i travel a lot.

Will update some more pics soon.

DC-3 also know as Douglas DC3 or popularly know as Dakota

Also wanted to share some details about this Model as i found on a site.

"The bazooka, the jeep, the atom bomb, and the DC-3" was Dwight Eisenhower's phrase, summing up the key equipment of the Allied victory in World War II. This immortal plane was designed by A. E. Raymond and E. F. Burton in 1935. More than 13,000 were built. Of these 10,123 were built for the military, 487 on license by Japan, almost 2,000 in Russia, and more than 800 for civil airlines just before the war. Many of these planes saw service after the war as military and civil pianes around the world. They played an important role in the 1948 Berlin Airlift. During the war in Vietnam old C-47s were transformed into ground attack gunships. Today there are C-47s and DC-3s still flying. This may well be the finest plane in the history of aviation

December 17, 2010, marks the 75th anniversary of the DC-3's first flight, and there are still small operators with DC-3s in revenue service and as cargo aircraft. The common saying among aviation buffs and pilots is that "the only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3." The aircraft's legendary ruggedness is enshrined in the lighthearted description of the DC-3 as "a collection of parts flying in loose formation." Its ability to take off and land on grass or dirt runways makes it popular in developing countries, where runways are not always paved."

The DC3 is going to be 75yrs old this December

I second Anwar's comment,
Converting this into electric is gonna give you very limited flight times, the greatest problem in giant scale plane is the motor failure from past experiences.
The best option is to go the fuel burning way..

Oh man! How can you 'sleep' with her next to you? In your place, I would have stayed up the whole night drooling and leching at her!

This is one bird I can't wait to see completed. Welcome aboard, in Regal Style, MiG35!

Would love to have one of this size Avro Lancaster can't fly it but to just have her is great

The Gooney bird, (aka DC3/Dakota/C47) would be way too much power with a pair of 120 FS.
Going electric would save you the hassle of engine synch and the dreaded assymetrical power in case of one engine out, but then a DC 3 without the sound of two engines does not look and sound the same.
How about getting this ready by the 75th Anniv and flying it on that very day?

Even electrics can have asymmetrical power.  The chances of occurrence is much higher when it comes to fuel engines, as you said.

Yes Anwar that is very much possible, but the odds are less. And if you are running sensible size motor on an average 40 size plane (twin ofcourse) you could run both the motors on same bty pack and say goodby to one motor out situation. You may have both out but not one (unless one of the components in the entire power train fails). 

Long back I remember seeing an article in Aeromodeller where a gent in UK had built a Lancaster powered by 4x 2.5 cc diesel and it was meant for FF scale comp.
Now imagine taking so much pains and letting the model go with full knowledge that once off you can do nothing to prevent it from crashing.
That is called supreme confidence in the knowledge that you have built right, you have trimmed it right and all your equipments would perform as intended.

With these, one has to be better prepared for use of the rudder, and handling situations similar to dead-sticks.

Would love to complete by the anniversary but do not have the time and one month is too less for me to complete the build. Need to collect the other things that go with it.

Many guys have converted it to electric & gas so will do some search and let you'll know.

If using glow power, make sure you have onboard glow driver, Just engines and southherts model sell excellent onboard glow drivers for single and multi configuarations 

Hi...so how does it go with the model? Im very curious as I am thinking about buing it my self...  I love the DC-3 but I am a little affraid if I will be able to build it. I have no experience in RC models, just regular plane models.

BG 12,
I dont think you have too muh of building (if any) with this model. It would mostly be assembly. If you have built a few models yourself (i.e. built not assembeled ARF's) this one should not present any problems to you.

So MiG 35,
Any more progress on the DC 3 ??