ID challenge with prize.

[RyanShort]

Ok, there's a new release coming up soon.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/doolittleraiders/SL0yIejvZLI/AAAAAAAAF54/NkY_JBbHhjQ/s800/GuessMe.jpg

The challenge is for you to guess the type of aircraft, model designer, AND the specific N-number for the aircraft! First person to do so gets a $5 coupon for use at either www.DoolittleRaid.com - Home page of The Doolittle Raiders Remembered (http://www.doolittleraid.com) or Lbirds.com - Liaison aircraft, pilots, restorations, etc... (http://www.lbirds.com).

I'm also posting this at the Zealot site, so you can't play both places...

Ryan

[shrike]

It's a Taylorcraft L-2, but no joy on n-number yet

[RyanShort]

Bump. ;)

Ryan

[dansls1]

No love on the plane, but the design looks rather Nobi-esque...

[RyanShort]

Getting real warm but whoever it is has to post ALL three...

Ryan

[dansls1]

Hmm, ok - let's go with:
L-2M Grasshopper
N87787
Designed by Nobi
Pictured here: L-2M Grasshopper (http://www.als-cannonfield.com/L-2MGrasshopper.htm)

[RyanShort]

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner.

Sent me your info via pm.

Will try to get the coupon to you later this evening.

Ryan

[Ashrunner]

Those interested in Liaison aircraft, and who will be near the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, might be interested in their Liaison Fly-in scheduled for the end of September.

For information on it, check the second item here (http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/news&events/outdoor/index.asp):

[RyanShort]

Thanks for the heads up!

Ryan

[Don Boose]

Good work, Dan! Congratulations.

Don

[dansls1]

I'd just like to say thanks for my 'certificate'! I admit that Shrike's early response helped quite a bit, and the rest of it was just being bright enough to search through Ryan's link in his signature looking for a plane with the #26 on it. (And seeing enough of Nobi's build threads to know he draws, unfolds, then colors-textures and his unfolds look like what's posted).
I am curious, other than this plane being housed at Cannon Field currently, what significance does this plane have?

[RyanShort]

I am curious, other than this plane being housed at Cannon Field currently, what significance does this plane have?

If you mean this particular plane - not a lot, but I spent a fair bit of money on the plane after a prop-strike a few years back and feel a bit sentimental about it after that point. Took it to my first airshow as a participant. Right now it's down again (probably for a while) after a mechanical/structural issue. I'm sponsoring NOBI's work and planning on the plane being a little bit more expensive than the L-5 - with the extra going to the Squadron as a fundraiser. I don't know of ANY L-2 kits being made right now besides this one. I have an old wood kit from 1946, and have seen one or two old balsa flying kits, but that's it.
The L-2s were almost exclusively used on the home front as training aircraft. There is some information that a very few of them may have made it to North Africa by accident. The aircraft is in my opinion a bit better than the J-3/L-4, but ended up being phased out in the L-4's favor due to it gaining a reputation as a "hot ship" with several fatal stall/spin accidents. If one is careful of this, it has better performance.
BTW. For folks who are concerned with a $6-8 price range it'll likely be in, timewise it takes quite a bit more to design, test, and layout a cardmodel... I try to pay the designers I work with as generously as possible, but frankly, they're probably working for what would be minimum wage on it. And believe it or not, I still haven't broken even on the L-5 yet! I'm doing it more for the long-term idea I have than because it makes a lot of sense (or cents!).

Ryan

[shrike]

I figured out the airplane by looking at the parts but I didn't have time to do anything other than a cursory search to find the specific one (running late to work)

I'd offer you a deal on your next propstrike, but O-200's are the smallest TCM we deal with. (now, frag a TIO-540 and we'll talk<G>)

[Don Boose]

Ryan -- You can count on an L-2 sale to me. Don

[RyanShort]

I figured out the airplane by looking at the parts but I didn't have time to do anything other than a cursory search to find the specific one (running late to work)

I'd offer you a deal on your next propstrike, but O-200's are the smallest TCM we deal with. (now, frag a TIO-540 and we'll talk<G>)

Well, for the record, the prop strike was related to a pair of gopher holes, and the necessity for an expedited turnoff from a grass runway. :eek:

Thanks Don!

Ryan

[NOBI]

just an eye candy...work progress is slow because I have workload of day job but will release soon :)

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n130/NOBI_98/L-2M.jpg

[Don Boose]

Very nice, NOBi.

Don