Posted on 12/15/2009 3:05:14 PM PST by navysealdad
Using a tweezers, the controls can be moved. All cables and linkages are in place to work the wing control surfaces as well. Young Park has since carved a pilot's face and hands from solid aluminum and built an articulated pilot to sit in the cockpit?Remember this as you look at the pics........... All the controls work as designed, by cables, chains, linkages and levers.Every single part hand made and fitted.
(Excerpt) Read more at angelfire.com ...
I’ll take a P-47 version of those.
Incredible work!
Looks like a P-51 and a Grumman Hellcat (maybe Corsair). Truly amazing work.
WOW! Thats all I can say! My hat’s off to you sir.
When I was a kid I was a bit of a WWII aviation buff, especially loved the Corsair. This is a real treat to see the inner workings of such an accurate model. Really interesting, incredible work.
Amazing. Thanks.
Now THAT’S a serious hobby! Would like to see him attempt an F-4 or A-10.
Amazing. Reminds of a time some years ago when Popular Mechanics featured a very small scale working V8.
Great post. I was an avid fan of the Revell and Aurora plane model
kits in my young age.
But this guy takes things up a couple of orders of magnitude.
Interesting this appears a day after the Boeing 787 did it’s maiden flight.
After I explained to my younger brother that the 787 has a lot of
composite construction and is a big step forward for commercial aviation,
he said “well, what would it look like if it crashed?”.
I couldn’t help myself and said “probably somewhat like my Revel and
Aurora model airplanes that you smashed to pieces when you were
about 3 years old!”.
Yes, I told him I was chuckling at this...and not holding a grudge
from the 1960s.
BTTT (for later read...)
Thanks for that link.
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