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twoeagles... Your comment is valid. An Overhauled R2800-CB3 cost between $68K and $75K. And that's without Carb., Oil Cooler, etc. The R2800 we're looking at should cost about $2K but will need an overhaul to become flightworthy. The ultimate goal is to put the engine into a F4U airframe. We...

In the process of locating an old Pratt Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp It is a two-row, 18-cylinder, air-cooled radial design. Displacement was 2,804 cubic inches (46 liters); bore and stroke were 5.75" and 6". Need maintenance and overhaul manuals. Does anyone know where I could obtain them...

the lancaster kicks ass.... No pictures yet; still in process of getting the master index drawing from Archives. YakFlyer.... Thanks for the good words and Thanks for the comment about the Fw199 White 1 foundation. I'll check it out. bigZ.... I'm curently using AutoCad 14. The good news is...

Emilan.... National Archives and Records Administration Special Media Archives Services Division (Cartographic) Archives II 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, Maryland 20740-6001 I've asked for drawings of the F4U-4...

As many of you know; building essentially from scratch a full size F4U-4 is no small undertaking. It’ll require many years of dedicated effort (10+) and skills in many, many areas of aircraft construction along with engine overhaul and maintenance abilities. My two sons and I realize that we...

In 1975 I built the first "non-factory" BD-5, a small pusher prop aircraft designed by Jim Bede and Burt Rutan. In 1978, I built and developed a Lycoming engine installation for Rutan's new Varieze , a canard configuration, pusher prop aircraft.

This may sound strange but if you're serious there is a lot of work that can be done at different parts of the world. It's only when all the subassemblies are ready that final assembly can begin. My son, Jeff, is located at Lemoore NAS in California and I'm in Massachusetts. Because there are no...

Hello All, I along with my son, Jeff, (an F-18E strike pilot) are starting to build (or rebuild) an F4U-4. We've gotten permission from Vought to obtain copies of all the drawings and we soon will be ordering some of the 60 reels of drawings available from the National Archives. We're also...