Pin Ups

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Two by Roger

Roger Mihara’s high-flying aerial photos of the PCC flying field and cliffs.

View from Above

Brian Chan’s giant aerial view of the PCC airstrip.

Phill Hill Helicopter

Bill Kuhse’s beautiful portrait of a realistic Navy helicopter.

Vintage Postal Plane

Jake Chichilitti’s scratch-built Ford Tri-Motor plane.

Jake's Tri-Motor postal plane floats in for a perfect landing. Photo by Bill Kuhse.

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Jake Chichilitti talks about the genesis of his scratch-built adaptation of the Ford Tri-Motor postal plane:

Ellsworth Crowell gave me a tiny metal model of the tri-motor hanging in the Smithsonian Museum. I used that model to draw the plans for my stand off scale model.

I based my model on the Great Planes Ultra Sport 60. I used their airfoil and moment arms. Originally it was designed to have a 67-inch wing span, but after I started building it I wanted it to be 80 inches so I could fly it at IMAA events. That's why the wing looks stretched out compared to the prototype.

It uses three Magnum .28 motors just like the ones on our combat wings. It weighs about seven pounds and was finished back in November of 2003. It's covered in silkspan and painted with Brodak dope.  I used two servos for the throttles, one in the fuselage and one in the wing. It has three six ounce fuel tanks.  It flies just like an Ultra Sport, minus the quick roll rate.