Austin Goodwin

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OK, I have to have one of these. I worked on them for a short period of time in the Air Force ( Great Falls, Montana). I built a "Knights of the Air" model about 20 years ago. Does anyone remember what scale it was? I thru away the wing and made a scale one. I was working sorta part time for Larry Wolfe at Jet Hangar Hobbies so He helped me create it. That airplane would not stall. It just mushed when slowed down. I never made a good landing though because engine would always quit. I'm glad the DF days are gone! I read all the threads and I'm still confused on which is the best turbine. Also how much fuel do the tanks hold and projected flying weight? Any answers would be apprecdiated from all including Bruce.

Austin Goodwin
Mesa, Arizona
Arizona Jet Rally CD

GIDDYUP

I grew watching the Six takeoff and land at Fresno ANG. Full burner takeoff was the best..a short roll followed by a very loud bang! I have been waiting for a Six for ever!! When/is this product available? Hopefully they will choose CA\Fresno ANG for their color scheme.

jlmaviation

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Does anyone have pictures of the kit contents?? Just want to look at the kit as it comes out of the box.

softshell29

You can see the kit contents on the other postsee above.

Here's my Delta Project, including the CJM F-106, which may be too heavy to fly, but is so beautiful. Bruce at CJM has promised to send me lighter parts but so far no reply.
So I will substitute the much lighter,larger Usher version, for now, However, Since Delta's have different flight characteristics, I will go through a progressive series of them before attempting the big , Usher 1/9 scale , version.

So I plan to first try my old Hobby Lobby Foamy mirages, but with new more powerful motors, then the mid size fiberglass Mirage you see before attemping the big F-106.

jeteye

Keith Yates and I were testing a few weeks ago, and his flies great! It's the same plane in post #21. A friend of mine took the video while he was flying. I'll post the video tomorrow. Keith uses a Jet Central Rabbit for power. More than enough power to fly really well. The video is shaky in places, but you can see what you are asking about.

Lewis

jeteye

Here is the video of the 106.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhg8PZIWUTo&feature=youtu.be

Hustler58

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I started a 1/6th scale plug. If someone wants to take on a project let me know, we can work something out. Butch [email protected]

tp777fo

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Sweet! Bob should have done that instead of the Thud...will fly great with all that wing!

softshell29

Ok I have progressed far enough in my f 106 build to get some hard , objective info about the f 106

I've posted only some of this on the RCU thread "usher f-106 roll out"

Warning: Do not look at that thread if you want a model magazine type review of the usher or cjm f106. Those are so blatantly biased that you wonder whether the reviewer got a free planeonly, or also got a considerable sum of cash. arn,t you sick of reading those "reviews"

In this era of arfs,few people have the time or skill to do a traditional build

Anyone who does not acknowledge the superiority of the cjm level of completion is intellectually dishonest. Or it's cool looks.
On the other hand, there may be serious weight and other problems with the cjm

henschel

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You got to love those Convair delta wings.

mikes68charger

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I miss my turbine 106. I had a heavy AMT180 with 80oz fuel

It was a great flyer. Little hard to slow down with all that weight

I even few it with a 110mm edf with 12s 5000mah for 3 flights was very nice. But I used this jet to get my waver with the turbine

mikes68charger

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Its paint job. I converted it back to electric a change sun 120mm 12 blade but on 12s it barely had the balls to get off tge ground and stalled and crahed

I was thinking of getting the jetcentrys 106 but its just a little 2 small

softshell29

Oops, forgot to update my posts.





Mine turned out to be a really great flyer. Partly due to natural Delta stability, but probably more due to mine being considerably larger than the Century F-106 yet much lighter.

mikes68charger

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Who makes this delta dart

softshell29

Its an Usher. I posted build and availability info on the old Usher F-106 Roll Out thread. Here

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/send...iend&t=3553034

To view this, click my link , then click Usher F-106 Roll Out.......................... Takes 2 steps.

Mine weighed 15.72 pounds "wet". (ie with its 3 pounds of batts on board, its electric)

Just over half a typical weight................Half

Imagine what that means for vertical, top end, glide, landing speed, .and everything else

In fairness to Century , mine can't be compared apples to apples since I took extreme weight reduction measures, some of which you would never want to do. For me this was an engineering challenge to prove what was possible----------- and what was not. Took years of development with a series of 4 deltas and various launch vehicles.

However, setting aside the way I did mine............... I believe the Usher kit is--in anyone's hands--lighter and superior in many ways. And on my build posts I show some other high yield weight reduction measures which are not so extreme --and anyone could benefit from--turbine or electric.