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Link Trainer Started

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  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Link Trainer Started
Posted by Don Stauffer on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:29 AM

I finished the paper model of the WW2 vintage link trainer, and got some measurements of a desk last weekend. I have started the real model.  Here are a couple of pics.

I am not exactly proud of my paper model building skils. I am a real novice at that, but at least it allowed me to make some measurements that I needed, because it was so hard to find any scale drawings of a Link.  BTW, the link trainer paper model is downloadable for free from the web.

Here is my start of the real model.

The real trainer was mostly built of wood, and the frame is very prominent with the door and "canopy" open.  So I elected to build the fuselage in "stick and tissue" flying model style, although it will be covered with thin plywood like the actual Links were.  The plans were done in Autosketch.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    May 2006
Posted by thunder1 on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 11:20 AM

Don

You are the man! Anyone that would build a model like this (from scratch no less) is head and shoulders above the average builder. It's exciting to see someone break from "out of the box" thinking regarding a build. I wouldn't put my skill level on the same "plane" as yours but we share a common interest in "off the wall" subjects. I scratch build some wacky things but wouldn't post them here, most folk wouldn't get it. At any rate, I will be following your progress on this build, and look forward to its completion.

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Posted by jeaton01 on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 8:10 PM

Don, I was at the Estrella museum at Paso Robles California the other day and they had a Link display.  I put some photos of it on my web site for you.  Drat, missed the rudder pedals!

http://www.yolo.net/~jeaton/Propplanes/LinkTrainer/link.html

John

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

 

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Thursday, December 19, 2013 8:43 AM

Thanks. I have added a few of those photos to my project folder.  Fortunately one of the photos I found on line has a good shot of the rudder pedals, and the paper model has good pedals too.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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