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7. Connect the tailwheel steering servo to the rudder
servo with a Y-harness. Center the servo arm and the
tailwheel gear. Install a swage on each cable, securing
it following the same procedure used on the tail gear.
Use a pliers to crimp the swage tightly on the cable.
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8. Mount the receiver on/off switch and charge
receptacle in a strategic location where it won’t interfere
with anything inside the fuselage and where it will not
get coated with engine exhaust outside the fuselage.
For electric power, the switch and charge receptacle
can be mounted under the hatch.
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9. Cut in half one of the 12" (305 mm) long hook
material and one of the 12" (305 mm) loop material.
Overlap by 1" (25.4 mm) a 6" (152 mm) long piece
of hook and loop material. Route the hook and loop
material through the two slots in the forward fuselage
on the same side as the rudder servo. Wrap the
receiver battery in R/C foam rubber and secure it
to the side of the fuselage with the hook and loop
material. Connect the receiver battery to the receiver
switch.
Use the included heat shrink material to
secure the connectors. Make sure the receiver
battery is secure.
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10. Mount the receiver on the other side of the
fuselage using hook and loop material. Connect the
receiver switch and the servos to the receiver. If you're
still using a 72 MHz receiver, route the receiver antenna
through the remaining pushrod tube. Attach a strain
relief on the antenna. For 2.4 GHz receivers, follow
the instructions included with the receiver for routing
the antennas.
Early production Thunderbolts were not without
teething pains typical of any new aircraft. Takeoff
runs were long (nearly a half-mile to clear a fi fty
foot obstacle) and there were several electrical and
hydraulic glitches, not to mention the unfamiliarity
of a totally new design. One fi ghter group damaged
or wrecked half of the P-47s received.
GAS ENGINE INSTALLATION
If you are powering the P-47 Razorback with an
electric motor, skip ahead to
ELECTRIC MOTOR
INSTALLATION
on page 21.
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1. The fi rewall has two sets of engine mounting bolt
patterns embossed on it. The “+” are for the DLE- 55
Rear Exhaust and DLE- 61 Side Exhaust gas engines
and the “X” are for the DLE- 55 Side Exhaust gas
engine and RimFire 65 Electric Motor. In the back of
this manual we provided a paper template for mounting
the O.S. GT 60 gas engine. If you are installing an
engine with a different mounting bolt pattern, the
fi rewall also has crosshairs embossed on it to help
locate the correct mounting location.
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2. Drill a 13/64" (5 mm) hole through the fi rewall
at each of the appropriate locations marked with an
“X” or “+”.
