Originally posted by extra330
with any luck this should be the fastest thing with an ic engine.
very,very expensive to run @ around £30 per 1 miniute flight
clocked in eccess of 200mph on radar, how much ? i dont want to say at the moment as a world speed record attempt is in the near future and that stands at 213mph.
can just say that if i get the reliability will by far superceed that.
got the idea from a fellow club flyer who holds the outright speed record using a turbine at 254 mph.see amt web site.
the plane is a much modified weston uk magnum,
no external horns,kinkages ets.
engine hand built turning 35,ooo rpm on hand crafted carbon props, pipe inside fuzz
extremely noisy,extremely fast and seems a lot faster due to its size.
no carb......no throttle, just an engine kill system
fully glassed, solid carbon rods set in wing and tailplane
What record are you going after? FAI I presume? THis will be very hard to beat, as was written by Maynard Hill several months ago in MAN I think, the Russians got it, the fix was in and now it is basically unbeatable.
If you are talking about the kind of "records" that the UK AMT Bandit claims, I flew faster than that at my club field every weekend, and a guy in Austria clocked over 300 mph with GPS equipped Bandit