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Subject:	Re: United Air Lines DC-3 with working props and landing gear
Newsgroups:	lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc
Followup-To:	lugnet.technic
Date:	Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:02:53 GMT
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Click the photo above to see more, or click to look on Flickr (slideshow) or on Brickshelf. And of course there’s the blog entry.

Nice aircraft. At first glance I would have said it was a bit chubby but reading that you fit a bunch of working stuff in there I would turn that around to say lovely compromise between form and function.

I think your tail solution is perfect and I fully intend to steal it when/if I build another aircraft.

Really great built.

Tim

PS. X-posted this response to .announce.moc (one way of getting around theme blurring models ;) )

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		Re: United Air Lines DC-3 with working props and landing gear
(...) OK. I'll out myself as an idiot before someone else does. I completely missed this model in .announce.moc (not once but twice) and figured it wasn't there. At least I was being stupid for a good cause ;) Tim (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.technic, FTX)

		Re: United Air Lines DC-3 with working props and landing gear
(...) Originally I was going to go 6-wide, but went to 8-wide when I decided to add the mechanisms. (...) It's the same design as my previous big plane, the PB4Y-2: (URL) Really great built. Thanks!! (18 years ago, 18-Oct-06, to lugnet.technic, FTX)

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		United Air Lines DC-3 with working props and landing gear
Aircraft are difficult to taxonomize on LUGNET. This isn't a military plane, but military fans will recognize the "gooney bird" - the military's version of the DC-3 - so I included that. I decided to post it mainly under Technic because of the (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.baylug, FTX) !!

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