Model plane - March 14, 2024 - The Standard - video Dailymotion

Garry Bergen has brought his Waco model plane to Koroit's fun fly day.

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00:00 Okay I'll just tell you a little bit about the Waco, it's a 40 percent Waco, it's a 144 inch

00:08 wingspan and it weighs, the flying weight is about 108 pound which is about 55 point, 50.5 kilos

00:18 in weight and it's got a 400cc Moki radial engine up the front that turns a

00:27 38 by 18 inch pitch prop and develops about 23 horsepower. I bought the plane about 15 years ago,

00:40 I bought the kit 15 years ago and I got it at a good price and I only started building it when

00:47 the COVID started and it's taken me two and a half years to build it, to finish it to what it is now

00:55 and yeah it took me actually three months to prime it and mask it all up and paint it.

01:03 The pilot took me about six months to be built over in Europe, the pilot that cost me a thousand

01:09 dollars to have the pilot made for him, that's a full size he stands about 625 millimetre which

01:17 has been over two feet.