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P-51 Drop tanks
Posted by Redfinger on Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:28 AM

I am currently working on the Tamyia 1/48 P-51D...I am very impressed w/ the tooling and detailing on this kit.  It is far superior in my opinion to the 1/32 by Has....of course that my be old news to most of you guys here....so onto my question, I know the drop tanks fuel lines run into the wings, but where exactly do the enter the wings?  I am planing on adding the fuel lines as a small detail and would like to get it fairly accurate.


Thanks

 

Ashton

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Posted by Edgar on Saturday, March 29, 2008 4:02 AM

On the metal tanks, two pipes came out just in front of the fairing; one went straight into the wing, just in front of the apex of the fairing, while the other ran along the outside, then went up into the wing ( almost at the back end of the fairing.)  I believe that the paper tanks had a slightly different arrangement, with one pipe coming from the back end, but can't (yet) find the evidence.  I have a photograph of a metal tank, slung under the Imperial War Museum's preserved P-51D; if it'd be any use, let me have an E-mail address, and I'll send it on.

Edgar 

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Posted by RadMax8 on Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:46 AM
Redfinger, I just bought a book on the P-51D and it has a wealth of information on drop tanks of all things. I'll have a gander and see what I can do for you!
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Posted by Redfinger on Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:41 AM

that sounds great, my e-mail is ashton.holbrook@comcast.net

 

AShton

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Posted by jeaton01 on Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:58 PM

There are a couple of drop tank and pylon photos here on my web site:

http://www.yolo.net/%7Ejeaton/Propplanes/p51/p51.htm 

John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

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Posted by wing_nut on Sunday, March 30, 2008 7:25 AM

Here's scn for one of my books.

Marc  

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Posted by RadMax8 on Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:02 AM

Marc, no picture shows up

Redfinger, the picture on Jeaton's site is much better than any of the ones I have... That shows everything! 

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Posted by wing_nut on Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:32 PM

Fixed

 

Marc  

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Posted by hkshooter on Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:45 PM
Wow, John, I never knew they did carrier trials with the P-51. Cool! I may have to make one of those!
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Posted by hkshooter on Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:49 PM

Here's one from the depth of my hdd.

 

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Posted by Redfinger on Sunday, March 30, 2008 1:15 PM

Thanks guys for all the pics and info, I have more than enough now ot work with.

 

Ashton

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