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Reply #40 - Jan 12th, 2012 at 11:15pm
 
Not much room in front of the starter and the fuel tank. Huh
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Reply #41 - Jan 12th, 2012 at 11:24pm
 
Nice looking setup, Al. How strong a servo will be required for the thrust vectoring?
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Reply #42 - Jan 12th, 2012 at 11:30pm
 
Steve Mosher wrote on Jan 12th, 2012 at 11:24pm:
Nice looking setup, Al. How strong a servo will be required for the thrust vectoring?


2 Hitec 55's otta do it.  That measly 140 won't put out that much blow anyways.
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Reply #43 - Jan 13th, 2012 at 2:33pm
 
Yak Man wrote on Jan 12th, 2012 at 11:12pm:
It moves up and down quite a bit. Cheesy


THAT's what you wanted that piece of furnace pipe for...... and as an aside, so does Dan's    Roll Eyes
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Reply #44 - Jan 13th, 2012 at 10:48pm
 
Yak Man wrote on Jan 12th, 2012 at 11:12pm:
It moves up and down quite a bit. Cheesy


Mine does too, though not quite as often, or as quick as it used to. Wink

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Reply #45 - Jan 16th, 2012 at 2:08am
 
Looking good Al. I say that as long as the starter is not rubbing on the tank, it will work fine. I don't think it should see any radiant heat there, but you could always epoxy another glass layer to the rear of the tank... or add a patch of that ceramic blanket.

Once you are happy with the rear workings, I'd give the bare wood back there a once-over with thinned epoxy, to fuel proof it too.

Wish I had something to work on... Wink

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Reply #46 - Jan 16th, 2012 at 1:51pm
 
ahh well, burnt out tank, hot turbine, hotter tail pipe, could be fun
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Reply #47 - Jan 16th, 2012 at 5:57pm
 
it would make things very exciting
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hmmmm, he HAS had smoke in other planes..... Cheesy
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Reply #49 - Jan 16th, 2012 at 8:33pm
 
He's also had it in Hotel rooms, what's your point?
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Reply #50 - Jan 17th, 2012 at 5:23pm
 
well, to be exact, there wasn't smoke in the room, just the whine of a burst pack  Embarrassed.... the smoke and flame came outside when the pack "lit"  Shocked.... and then again later at 2:00AM when the fire dept came in response to a "flare up"  Lips Sealed . But typical of Capt. Cool, he slept through that part and left me to deal with them.... Angry
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Reply #51 - Jan 23rd, 2012 at 10:01am
 
Back to the Elton Jet... I tried to prevail upon Capt. Cool to take his jet to the field yesterday, but he said he still had issues with the nose landing gear. MY opinion was that with that cool composite shape, and those canard fins up front, he could likely run the thing on the snow with the gear up.......... if it didn't take off it would at least melt the snow...

His reply was somewhat lacking in enthusiasm  Tongue
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Reply #52 - Jan 23rd, 2012 at 11:47pm
 
It will have enough thrust that we could just hand launch it vertically.  lol
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and land it the same way?  Roll Eyes

Pointy side up or down....
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Reply #54 - Jan 24th, 2012 at 11:10am
 
carbon fibre
the carbon transfers heat laterally
the epoxy matrix transfer heat through the thickness (short transverse direction)
I would try a carbon fibre blanket no epoxy
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Fingers wrote on Jan 24th, 2012 at 10:51am:
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Pointy side up or down....


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Reply #57 - Feb 5th, 2012 at 11:19pm
 
Here's a shot of the jet after Todd had a chance to put his touch on it. This guy is a master at painting and custom work and he was kind enough to put some flames on the nose Smiley Looks GREAT Shocked

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Reply #58 - Feb 5th, 2012 at 11:39pm
 
Wow, nice Al.  Your an artist Todd.

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Reply #59 - Feb 6th, 2012 at 6:45am
 
Excellant work! I tried this on mine last night but the gasoline ran and then, when I lit it.......  Sad Sad Sad
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