Thank you for a wonderful video. I’m glad you have built a copy of the Spitfire Mk 24. I agree it’s a wonderful airplane. One of my favorite of all the marks. I admire your tenacity and detail, keeping the proportions so close to the original. Well done, I raise my hat to you!
Amazing build . I would like to see another video showing more of the construction. The re-drive looks beefy. You must be extremely proud of what you have created. Thanks for sharing.
Holee kanolee! I've had this vid in my downloads for a few days now as something I was going to watch as a Spitfire lover and lover of scale RC models thinking it was just some really special RC project being maidened - imagine my shock! Unbelievable! I have been in aviation for all my life and built several types even designed my own but this has to be the most remarkable scratch build I have ever seen!
Nice to see an aluminum version. The Mk XVIII's and other models of that (full bubble) with the large rudder are the most beautiful of all the Spits. Well done
I don’t know about you guys but allowing windmills that close to an airport is just crazy. Finding that runway on a foggy day or night has to be one scary deal. I had a lot to do with cell towers and they are highly regulated by the FAA. They are not as high not counting the spread of the blades.. and we would be talking about one in the area of an airport …not 40.. just nuts.
@@cloudstreets1396 i live 2 miles from an FAA county airport … and there has been more then one occasion when on a dense foggy day planes having to make paralleling passes, 4-5, each one working there way closer and closer to the runway . Weather here closes in in a heart beat and not every plane flies IFR..Regardless why put windmills there …
@@robertsklenka5823 what is an FAA county airport? Why is it necessary to make 4-5 passes to land at this FAA county airport? If the conditions are IFR you should be flying IFR. Dense fog doesn’t sound very VFR to me.
@@cloudstreets1396 The airport was privately owned..then bought by the county via a FAA loan,,and is now inspected and overseen by the FAA.. Why the 4-5 passes ..it was dance fog and he couldn’t find the approach ,,thus several paralleling runs to time his descent. I’m sure the fog wasn’t part of his original plan.. if you fly long enough things happen.
Congratulations! It’s a beautiful plane! I gave some thought to building a P63, but never had the money. it’s nice to see another warbird lover realize his dream!
Super job! Try holding the camera with your elbows on the car or against a pole or something immovable. You should be able to get a more stable video next time. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
@@tbas8741 big barrier to the "aero engine" would be both cost and design. The Ford os making better than 300 h.p. Any 300 horse aero engine of piston design today, is air cooled, which isn't going to work in this plane design. I don't know of any available water cooled aero engines in that h.p. range. Old stuff that may work, would be cost prohibitive, hard to get parts for, and cost waaaayyy too much. He built this quite some time ago, and their are better automotive choices today, but nothing inherently wrong with a 302W Ford rotating assembly, block, and heads. If there are any water cooled modern aero engines that are available new, I'd imagine that they cost $100,000 or more. Just my thoughts on all of this, and I'm no aeroplane expert, but I did sell engines for 25 years.
@@tbas8741 While I am a Subaru fan, and have owned one that provided awesome service for many miles, I can't get on board with it due to belt driven OHC, and the power you are suggesting would require modification, which I also don't want in an engine like that. Also not sure if it is narrow enough for the app. I don't know where you have developed the opinion that the Ford W block is "unreliable". It has been around for 60 years or so, and has proven to be a very tough block, rotating assembly, and heads. I have a personal acquaintance that uses a 4 cyl. pushrod Subaru engine in a gyrocopter that he flies both from his home, and our municipal airport. It has never been a problem. The power requirements are much lower in his gyro, but he goes like the wind in/on it!
Awesome project sir! To build something yourself, that you can fly at nearly 250 mph isn't something that too many people can say that they've done! Beautiful job on the airframe from the looks of it! Continued good luck to you.
Help a friend build a 3/4 scale P-40 from a Loehle kit. The word kit is a bit misleading. More like a truck rolls up and drops off several pallets of wood. He worked hard to make a wood and fabric kit look more like a P-40 B. Had a custom reduction gear built for a GEO engine, tracked down a suitable 3 bladed prop, added thin plywood to shape the area behind the cockpit. Did it look EXACTLY like a P40B? No. That's not the point. Building an airplane is an incredible accomplishment. Hats off to this builder!
I live and over time have had cause to be in the near vicinity of Biggin Hill Aerodrome in Kent, UK where at least two "real" Spitfires based. Biggin Hill was a 'Sector Station in 10 Group during WWII. On the many times I camped under the pattern, I got to hear and occasionally see one or other of the Spitfires. Six or seven years ago I heard the distinctive and inimical sound of a Merlin engine and I stepped out from under whatever canvas I was under to take a look. There was the Spitfire, but something wasn't quite right - it appeared to have a fixed undercarriage and didn't look big enough, but it did sound right. After a few enquiries I found out it was a 70% scale model of a Spitfire, with a V8 car engine. Further enquiries revealed the exhaust pipes were somehow tuned and the result was astonishing. Every time we heard a Merlin engine, we would rush out from under the trees, simply to check if it was one of the real Spitfires (and thus a real Merlin) or the 70% replica with its extraordinary tuned pipes. This aeroplane appears to have retractable undercarriage which improves its appearance no end, but...... It doesn't quite sound 'the business'. I'm sorry, but half the magic of a Spitfire is the noise and while it sounds good, it doesn't sound right.
Gorgeous! The Spitfire is imho, the most beautiful aircraft...not just out of the warbirds, or modern fighters....I mean out of all of aviation full stop. The _only_ thing that it's really missing is that amazing and iconic Rolls Royce Merlin sound.....that deeeeep growling roar.....amazing nonetheless! Seeing those wind turbines in the background so close to an airport....ridiculously, leathally close....puts me in mind of Dan Griderr: Probable Cause relentlessly reminding everyone just how vacuous, simple minded, greedy, reckless and outright corrupt a lot of local governemnt is. When you see them you KNOW its only a matter of time before low clouds and electronics giving spurious information will catch someone out (just like that poor young girl who hit that antenna on top of that chimney somewhere in the US....its height was incorrectly rexorded as well as a heap of corruption led directly to a bright young woman's death....I feel that Dan Grider will be doing a vid about a fatal accident at that airport, at some point in the future).
Wowser, amazing feat sir! This is a project I could only ever dream of for my own part. Might I be permitted - so that hopefully you can correct me - to observe that the undercarriage looks ? not quite right, in the angle of the legs, and/or the width between the leg roots and/or the wheels themselves? It may be that I am less familiar with the later marks, and that the undercart geometry had been changed by the time the Griffon variants came about. After all, the Mk 24 was almost 50% heavier than the Mk 9, so a change in undercarriage positioning may well have been essential anyway. Re-a comment below - Graham Hobbs - indeed, the cockpit does look more rear-ward than I recall (probably down to C of G considerations with that V8 up ahead. I also assume the cockpit has to be a touch out of scale in order to fit a real live pilot inside?! If this sounds like petty carping about details that were unavoidable in the design stage, never mind in execution, please forgive me. I admire what you have done, but being an engineer by persuasion, I like to know EVERYthing about everything! No criticism intended. Thanks, Yogabob.
It would in stock form need a gear reduction drive as a prop that size will have a Max RPM of about 2600-2700 max before prop tips exceed the speed of sound which is bad. Loose power from shock waves can also damage the plane and prop. The engine probably only running about 4000 rpm on take off to keep in its automotive Power/torque Curve. Almost all prop planes using automotive engines need a significant Reduction gear drive to reduce Prop RPM by upto half. I would be concerned flying it with a ford engine as Special if its USA ford engine not the greatest for reliablity at sustained higher rpms and loads. Not like a Lycoming Aeroengine and so on
very nice one indeed.. shame on the v8 tho.. parts, availability and weight demands i guess.. but a v12 would be perfect on that.. provided the power and weight demands were met..
The airframe is 70% of full size so it could not handle the weight and power of a 27 litre v12. Even if it did fit the cost of acquiring and maintaining a V12 prohibitive.
I don't disagree, but then the power requirements to be able to have it anywhere near flyable would fairly limit engine choices to some stratospherically expensive options.
Cockpit too far back, no cowling blisters over the cylinder bank, tail empenage not tall enough and the wings not the right shape or size. Great engineering but I've seen much better replicas. A Spitfire deserves accuracy and attention to detail
I know it's scale built but cockpit area is all wrong...jeez the v8 sounds so wrong when one is used to the distinct sound of the merlin v12s great talent to built fly and certify your own plane though.
My first impression is the fuselage is too long and the wings are too short. Definately the wings are too short. You got money but, no common sense. A big failure.
Best part of a landing is the touch down. Thanks for editing it out........
Wonderful project, great sheetmetal work and attention to detail. Nicely laid out instrument panel and what a lovely sound she makes. Well done
It's beautiful and I bet it flies nicely. Another 'well done' from England. 🙂
What a kick! Took me a second look to appreciate “70% scale.” Thanks for the video.
Thank you for a wonderful video. I’m glad you have built a copy of the Spitfire Mk 24. I agree it’s a wonderful airplane. One of my favorite of all the marks. I admire your tenacity and detail, keeping the proportions so close to the original. Well done, I raise my hat to you!
This is the most amazing...anything I've seen built on RUclips. As a RC warbird nut, this is the holy grail.
Amazing build . I would like to see another video showing more of the construction. The re-drive looks beefy. You must be extremely proud of what you have created.
Thanks for sharing.
Holee kanolee! I've had this vid in my downloads for a few days now as something I was going to watch as a Spitfire lover and lover of scale RC models thinking it was just some really special RC project being maidened - imagine my shock! Unbelievable! I have been in aviation for all my life and built several types even designed my own but this has to be the most remarkable scratch build I have ever seen!
Absolutely handsome plane! In a way, even better looking than the original. Thank you for posting this.
Even better looking than the original ha ha that s so funny... think you need your eyes examined...noted your observation...
Nice job, Mac! Thanks for sharing some of your experiences with us.🙂👍
Nice to see an aluminum version. The Mk XVIII's and other models of that (full bubble) with the large rudder are the most beautiful of all the Spits. Well done
I don’t know about you guys but allowing windmills that close to an airport is just crazy. Finding that runway on a foggy day or night has to be one scary deal. I had a lot to do with cell towers and they are highly regulated by the FAA. They are not as high not counting the spread of the blades.. and we would be talking about one in the area of an airport …not 40.. just nuts.
If you are going into that airport on a foggy day you will be on an instrument approach which will keep you clear of all obstacles
@@cloudstreets1396 i live 2 miles from an FAA county airport … and there has been more then one occasion when on a dense foggy day planes having to make paralleling passes, 4-5, each one working there way closer and closer to the runway . Weather here closes in in a heart beat and not every plane flies IFR..Regardless why put windmills there …
I’d stick them all 20 miles offshore
@@robertsklenka5823 what is an FAA county airport? Why is it necessary to make 4-5 passes to land at this FAA county airport? If the conditions are IFR you should be flying IFR. Dense fog doesn’t sound very VFR to me.
@@cloudstreets1396 The airport was privately owned..then bought by the county via a FAA loan,,and is now inspected and overseen by the FAA.. Why the 4-5 passes ..it was dance fog and he couldn’t find the approach ,,thus several paralleling runs to time his descent. I’m sure the fog wasn’t part of his original plan.. if you fly long enough things happen.
Congratulations! It’s a beautiful plane! I gave some thought to building a P63, but never had the money. it’s nice to see another warbird lover realize his dream!
All P-39/P-63s belong on the ground!
That was some achievement! Congratulations!
Beautiful! Congratulations!
Nice project! I am not a big fan of car motor planes but it sounds pretty healthy.👍👍
Super job! Try holding the camera with your elbows on the car or against a pole or something immovable. You should be able to get a more stable video next time. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
WOW that's awesome! And that Ford V8 sounds really good too! 👍😁👍
just a bit concerning with fords low reliability compared to proven Aero specific engines
@@tbas8741 big barrier to the "aero engine" would be both cost and design. The Ford os making better than 300 h.p. Any 300 horse aero engine of piston design today, is air cooled, which isn't going to work in this plane design. I don't know of any available water cooled aero engines in that h.p. range. Old stuff that may work, would be cost prohibitive, hard to get parts for, and cost waaaayyy too much. He built this quite some time ago, and their are better automotive choices today, but nothing inherently wrong with a 302W Ford rotating assembly, block, and heads.
If there are any water cooled modern aero engines that are available new, I'd imagine that they cost $100,000 or more.
Just my thoughts on all of this, and I'm no aeroplane expert, but I did sell engines for 25 years.
@@hugejohnson5011 Subaru Flat 6 Aero Conversion Will be much safer and last longer im sure.
also have 250-300-350hp builds in Subaru Flat 6
@@tbas8741 While I am a Subaru fan, and have owned one that provided awesome service for many miles, I can't get on board with it due to belt driven OHC, and the power you are suggesting would require modification, which I also don't want in an engine like that. Also not sure if it is narrow enough for the app.
I don't know where you have developed the opinion that the Ford W block is "unreliable". It has been around for 60 years or so, and has proven to be a very tough block, rotating assembly, and heads.
I have a personal acquaintance that uses a 4 cyl. pushrod Subaru engine in a gyrocopter that he flies both from his home, and our municipal airport. It has never been a problem. The power requirements are much lower in his gyro, but he goes like the wind in/on it!
Awesome project sir! To build something yourself, that you can fly at nearly 250 mph isn't something that too many people can say that they've done! Beautiful job on the airframe from the looks of it! Continued good luck to you.
just Love it , well done Sir
Help a friend build a 3/4 scale P-40 from a Loehle kit. The word kit is a bit misleading. More like a truck rolls up and drops off several pallets of wood. He worked hard to make a wood and fabric kit look more like a P-40 B. Had a custom reduction gear built for a GEO engine, tracked down a suitable 3 bladed prop, added thin plywood to shape the area behind the cockpit. Did it look EXACTLY like a P40B? No. That's not the point. Building an airplane is an incredible accomplishment. Hats off to this builder!
I live and over time have had cause to be in the near vicinity of Biggin Hill Aerodrome in Kent, UK where at least two "real" Spitfires based. Biggin Hill was a 'Sector Station in 10 Group during WWII. On the many times I camped under the pattern, I got to hear and occasionally see one or other of the Spitfires. Six or seven years ago I heard the distinctive and inimical sound of a Merlin engine and I stepped out from under whatever canvas I was under to take a look.
There was the Spitfire, but something wasn't quite right - it appeared to have a fixed undercarriage and didn't look big enough, but it did sound right. After a few enquiries I found out it was a 70% scale model of a Spitfire, with a V8 car engine. Further enquiries revealed the exhaust pipes were somehow tuned and the result was astonishing.
Every time we heard a Merlin engine, we would rush out from under the trees, simply to check if it was one of the real Spitfires (and thus a real Merlin) or the 70% replica with its extraordinary tuned pipes.
This aeroplane appears to have retractable undercarriage which improves its appearance no end, but...... It doesn't quite sound 'the business'. I'm sorry, but half the magic of a Spitfire is the noise and while it sounds good, it doesn't sound right.
I can't own one, but I'm glad somebody can. Enjoy and well done!
Apart from the canopy being a bit different and the wide stance undercarriage this thing is awesome. 70kts stall is high. Great work.
Doesn't sound like Merlin but definately cool.
The wind mills around the runway make me nervous
Well, it sounds plenty cool anyway. Never thought anyone could make a Ford engine sound so good!
Gorgeous! The Spitfire is imho, the most beautiful aircraft...not just out of the warbirds, or modern fighters....I mean out of all of aviation full stop. The _only_ thing that it's really missing is that amazing and iconic Rolls Royce Merlin sound.....that deeeeep growling roar.....amazing nonetheless!
Seeing those wind turbines in the background so close to an airport....ridiculously, leathally close....puts me in mind of Dan Griderr: Probable Cause relentlessly reminding everyone just how vacuous, simple minded, greedy, reckless and outright corrupt a lot of local governemnt is. When you see them you KNOW its only a matter of time before low clouds and electronics giving spurious information will catch someone out (just like that poor young girl who hit that antenna on top of that chimney somewhere in the US....its height was incorrectly rexorded as well as a heap of corruption led directly to a bright young woman's death....I feel that Dan Grider will be doing a vid about a fatal accident at that airport, at some point in the future).
What a guy. Built and fly a WW2 style airplane. You are prime..
Sounds amazing.
😃 what an achievement! superb!
An absolutely, stunningly, beautiful machine. To the critics in the audience, I ask, what have YOU built?
moped😑50cc
As a commercial pilot those wind turbines would scare the shi5 out of me !
I agree,but people will start screaming to shut the airport down before they get rid of the ugly wind mills and the airport was probably there first.
Wonderful aircraft,
Looked the canopy on first flight?
What great places for windmills!!
Awesome!
How did you come up with the VnE numbers. Engine or airframe related?
Really good looking
Absolutely beautiful
❤ excellent replica
Your the man!
TBH it loos more like a P51 with that bubble canopy. The wings are the giveaway though.
Its a later mark spitfire, indeed with a bubble canopy.
Looks and sounds great. What is the wing loading?
Why would you want to know the wing loading?
@@tonywright8294 As an RC scale modeler/builder/flyer that's just something I'm interested in. Helps me to visualize flight characteristics.
70% Spitty flys beautifully!
It appears that the gear is somewhat spaced for a bit easier landing. No? Nice ride altogether.
probably a change for the better! lol
Because of the narrow spread of the main gear . The original spit had a tendency to be a little squirrelly on the ground, but in the air incredible..
Looks like fun.
Wowser, amazing feat sir! This is a project I could only ever dream of for my own part. Might I be permitted - so that hopefully you can correct me - to observe that the undercarriage looks ? not quite right, in the angle of the legs, and/or the width between the leg roots and/or the wheels themselves? It may be that I am less familiar with the later marks, and that the undercart geometry had been changed by the time the Griffon variants came about. After all, the Mk 24 was almost 50% heavier than the Mk 9, so a change in undercarriage positioning may well have been essential anyway. Re-a comment below - Graham Hobbs - indeed, the cockpit does look more rear-ward than I recall (probably down to C of G considerations with that V8 up ahead. I also assume the cockpit has to be a touch out of scale in order to fit a real live pilot inside?! If this sounds like petty carping about details that were unavoidable in the design stage, never mind in execution, please forgive me. I admire what you have done, but being an engineer by persuasion, I like to know EVERYthing about everything! No criticism intended. Thanks, Yogabob.
Gotta know more information about this plane.
10:18 he might be on the ground and under control but my stomach isn't thanks to the shaky camera !!
What a beauty!
cant believe the wind mills so close to the airport.
That small block ford is turning some high rpms
It would in stock form need a gear reduction drive as a prop that size will have a Max RPM of about 2600-2700 max before prop tips exceed the speed of sound which is bad.
Loose power from shock waves can also damage the plane and prop.
The engine probably only running about 4000 rpm on take off to keep in its automotive Power/torque Curve.
Almost all prop planes using automotive engines need a significant Reduction gear drive to reduce Prop RPM by upto half.
I would be concerned flying it with a ford engine as Special if its USA ford engine not the greatest for reliablity at sustained higher rpms and loads.
Not like a Lycoming Aeroengine and so on
And now the FAA will now close the airport because it is unsafe
You really need to put the camera on a tripod. But great work
Nice
Not 'exactly' scale; the vertical stab appears to be oversized. By what, 30%?
Look at pic of a mk24 spit then get back to us
the wheels are alot wider, lol, the original spit is very narrow (this coming from a spitfire pilot)
Wider is better
very nice one indeed.. shame on the v8 tho.. parts, availability and weight demands i guess.. but a v12 would be perfect on that.. provided the power and weight demands were met..
The airframe is 70% of full size so it could not handle the weight and power of a 27 litre v12. Even if it did fit the cost of acquiring and maintaining a V12 prohibitive.
@@alanholloway1264 that i know. there is a 5.7 litre v8 in it now right? i meant there are about that size automotive v12's as well.
I have heard that some people are using a bmw V12 in some of the scaled down p51 reps. That would be interesting.
ITS SIZE IS 70% OF THE REAL SPITFIRE, ITS SCALE IS 1/1.43
Brilliant.
its really cute ,,, just wish it didnt sound like a builders van
very nice but should have a headphone warning for the onboard cam, just about blew my ears out
To me the fin/rudder seems slightly too large, and the undercarriage too widely spaced 🤔 Overall beautiful though
Check the sound level,, much too quite
Hols short wind turbine on short finel .
That's just grate to make flying safer all those stupid wind turbines near the airport.what will they think of next to make it harder to fly safer
They’ll ban rudders.
@@StevenSmith-pt8rz next thing you will see gas costing $10 dollars A gallon
Not a totally accurate scaled reproduction, but a great achievement nevertheless. Finally flying after 20 years must have been a wonderful feeling.
Badass!!
There's no way I'd fly a plane with a car engine turning that many rpm..
70%? Wth is the point? You may as well go full size at that point!
I don't disagree, but then the power requirements to be able to have it anywhere near flyable would fairly limit engine choices to some stratospherically expensive options.
Like a turboprop. Yikes !
@@StevenSmith-pt8rz Exactly so. One would have to be wealthy at that point, and should maybe go buy the real Supermarine Spitfire, right?
The effort to build, the cost, the hp raise with seats, dimension by square!
Mk 24 would be Griffon engined, anyyhoo.
Hey Mr cameraman/woman learn how to hold the camera steady and keep the subject in frame before you post another video on RUclips.
Doesn’t really look like a spit
Cockpit too far back, no cowling blisters over the cylinder bank, tail empenage not tall enough and the wings not the right shape or size. Great engineering but I've seen much better replicas. A Spitfire deserves accuracy and attention to detail
I know it's scale built but cockpit area is all wrong...jeez the v8 sounds so wrong when one is used to the distinct sound of the merlin v12s great talent to built fly and certify your own plane though.
Nice plane! But with all due respect, a Spitfire without a Merlin growl is no Spitfire.
Build your own and then cut a Merlin in half. Tell us how it flies, OK?
@@marthakrumboltz2710 Sad and pathetic response.
Sounds pretty good to me! Be nice to see updates after crash.
Spot on response Martha.
Boy, remind me never to fly around those wind turbines.
Calling it a "Mk 24" is ridiculous. Should be illegal if Supermarine were still around.
Sorry, but the exterior camera work is terrible.
i dont like the canopy design
Hard to listen to!!!
My first impression is the fuselage is too long and the wings are too short. Definately the wings are too short. You got money but, no common sense. A big failure.
So what’s your big accomplishment in life LOL
The plane looks good for 70% scale, but i dont think the vertical tail is.