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Old 02-24-2007, 08:53 AM
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Default RE: Hmm, I want something but what?


ORIGINAL: Ken Bryant


I like the sleek Jet appearance of propjets. I really don't want to do another patriot. It was kind of heavy and I've already done it. The Tiger shark has me wondering how fast it can go. Any ideas comparied to the patriot?
they both are equally impressive in speed but both tend to build on the heavy side as you mentioned but that's not what holds back in speed. building the Patriot again (or the F-20) and taking drag into consideration you can cut down on drag and get speed up a bit more. on my last Patriot i gave the leading edges of the simulated air intakes a taper down to the fuselage (triangle stock and balsalite filler) to 'clean up' the profile, that gave a bit better speed. in prop jets you can gain allot more speed cleaning up the drag then you can increasing the power

kc