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Model Builder Extraordinaire
All you air plane folks
Using a tweezers, the controls can be moved. All cables and linkages are in
place to work the wing control surfaces as well.
YoungPark
has since carved a pilot's face
and hands from solid aluminum and built an articulated pilot to sit in the
cockpit
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Remember this as you look at the pics........... All the controls work as
designed, by cables, chains, linkages and levers.
All these controls WORK!!!!!........ And that means they work the parts of
the aircraft via rods and chains as in the original aircraft!!!!
Every single part hand made and fitted.
Don't forget the tiny
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scale......... go up again and look at the pic of the fingers and tweezers!
Machine guns and bullets.........
Detail of three .50 Cal.
machine guns and ammo cans.
Ammo cans are loaded outside the aircraft and then simply set into place in
the wing. Their doors become the top surface of the wing. This allowed for
rapid reloading by the ground crew.
Mr. Park generously donated the first (cutaway) Corsair model to the Joe Martin
Foundation. It can be seen in person in its display at the Foundation's museum
in the Sherline building in
Vista, California . A collection
of photos showing how the model was built and all the historical data on the
Corsair Mr. Park collected to build it has also been donated and is available
for viewing. In 2005, Mr. Park also donated the second corsair and it is also
now on display in the Foundation's museum.
Showing the extent of his carving skills, Mr. Park sculpted a pilot's head and
hands out of solid aluminum. The articulated figure is dressed in a custom made
uniform and can be placed in any position to give a good sense of scale to the
model.
Inside the left wing you can see the .50 cal ammunition threaded into the three
wing guns. Each round is machined in 3 parts
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brass cartridge with copper bullet and primer and is held together with a small
copper feed jacket.
engine exhaust ports....... pic taken during assembly.
Control wires are being threaded around their pulleys underneath the cockpit
during construction. (Y. Park photo)
The radiator air intake sits under the fuselage ready for installation. Much of
the detail of some of the parts is hidden once it is assembled. (Y. Park photo)
The wing being made.
Each panel is hand formed over a wooden shape. The metal is annealed to the
proper softness and then pounded and bent into shape. The plane is made up of
many individual panels, and the fits between panels are just about perfect. (Y.
Park photo)
Here we see the panel above in it's final position. Looks easy now, doesn't it?
(Y. Park photo)
The form for the air intake and the final part. As is often the case in
machining and model making, fixtures, moulds, formers and
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jigs to make the final parts can take a long time to make and are never seen by
the public viewing the finished model. (Y. Park photo)
AvCraft Engineering New Zealand Ltd
Taonui Airport
Feilding, New Zealand 4702
