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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 6/1/2006 3:15:45 AM   
WhoDaMan


 

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Status: online 		Excellent choice going with an known power plant. I love the plane and yours has turned out to be a labor of love, I hope you get many fligts on her, are you going to buttonwillow? I will be back east that weekend, so get lots of pic's.

Talk soon I hope,,,, Dave

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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 6/1/2006 7:19:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		Can anyone show me a good photo of the fighting cock logo on Hunter XF515. If I ever get the time to rebuild my prototype, I would like to finish it in that scheme.
Fixing the pushrod O ring in place, try a short piece of brass tube which is a tight fit.
Gordon, would you mind if I put a picture of your Hunter on my site? Better, how about a shot out in the sunshine?
Thanks , Mick

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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 6/1/2006 3:21:22 PM   
Gordon Mc



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ORIGINAL: mick reeves

Can anyone show me a good photo of the fighting cock logo on Hunter XF515. If I ever get the time to rebuild my prototype, I would like to finish it in that scheme.
Fixing the pushrod O ring in place, try a short piece of brass tube which is a tight fit.
Gordon, would you mind if I put a picture of your Hunter on my site? Better, how about a shot out in the sunshine?
Thanks , Mick


Mick - I have several pics of the fighting cock, along with .psd etc images that I used for getting the decals made, thanks to a lot of extremely helpful people here on RCU who helped find a suitable pic and even took the time to do tidy-up artwork for me totally free of charge. BTW, Corgi also does a Hunter model finsihed in that same scheme.

PM me your current email address and I will shoot them across to you early next week (I'm heading down to a jet meet right after work today, so won't be near my home computer until Sun / Mon). Let me know if you have any size or bandwidth issues with your ISP (i.e. should I send a couple of pics at a time rather than all bundled up into one larger zip file, etc).

You're welcome to use any of my pics you like - construction shots for any manual updates if you wish, and / or 'posing' shots of the (not quite) completed aircraft for whatever use you wish. If you want larger pics than are posted on the site (since RCU resizes them to keep filespace under control) then just identify the pic by the post number and the row / column position of the pic and I will shoot you my larger pics.

I'll post some better later, hopefully take some better ones without so much crap in the background, in decent light etc., and with the seat & pilot in place etc. - yesterday's pics were just a "by the way" afterthought as I moved stuff temporarily out of the garage to get room to pack my van for the trip to California Jets.

For the o-ring - as far as I can tell, I was getting the ring well seated. I even used a vernier to take a measurement of the depth of the recess, and the thickness of the o-ring, so that I could verify that the o-ring was being pushed fully into the recess. Seemed to be all the way in. Late last night though, I noticed that there was a small spot of 'crud' (that's a technical term for some kind of indeterminate dirt) sitting fairly solidly on the pushrod on that one cylinder. My supposition at this point is that as the pushrod slid in & out through the small o-ring, that crud effectively increased the diameter of the pushrod at that spot, so that that one spot had more resistance ; over a number of cycles that just caused the o-ring to dislodge. If my guess is right then I just have to be extremely careful about keeping the pushrods clean in order to avoid a repeat of the issue.

Regards,
Gordon



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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 6/1/2006 4:33:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for the offer. Im at mick@mickreevesmodels.co.uk
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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 8/1/2006 3:42:57 PM   
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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 8/2/2006 7:14:20 PM   
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ORIGINAL: g4rko

Have you flown the Hunter yet?


No .. due to averaging 15 to 17 hr work days, 7 days a week, for the last century or so (at least that's how long it feels), I've had precious little time to make progress on the few remaining items. I did get a tiny bit more rigging done 3 weeks ago, but who knows when (or if) this project might ever be completed.

In case you haven't seen it, there's a multi-part build article in RCJI, about the MRM Hunter. Colin's doing a great job with his review and has done at least an initial test hop on his bird.

Gordon


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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 9/3/2006 7:17:04 PM   
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Status: online 		Well, the big day finally came yesterday.

I'm fortunate to have some truly exceptional pilots around me, so when it came to the maiden I had abolutely no hesitation in putting the ego aside and getting the annoyingly good (for flying anyway, if not for anything else) Dave Presta handle the test flights for me.

First flight required a few clicks of aileron trim, and showed some tail heavy tendencies despite using the latest CG info published on Mick's site. It wasn't wickedly tail heavy though - just not quite right. For the 2nd flight we strapped an extra small nicad pack in the nose - don't know yet where that moved the CG to, but it made all the difference in the world. The aircraft now seems well balanced, and very well behaved.

Since I had no idea what flap & airbrake throws and or mixes to use, I just guessed at throws and Dave took the aircraft to a safe altitude to add inter then full flap, and inter then full airbrake. None of these actions caused the slightest trim change, which is pretty awesome - I was expecting to have to mix in some elevator to handle a pitch chage, but none seems to be needed.

There is a slight problem with the nose gear steering - not enough authority despite seemingly large throws. Even though the aircraft taxied dead straight on the taxiway which faced directly into wind, on the takeoff roll with a 90 degree crosswind of maybe 4 or 5 knots, it took full left rudder to keep it tracking straight. That needs some thought.

Also, although the brakes worked fine when tested before the maiden, they didn't work at all on landing. Fortunately the field selected for the test flight has about 3 or 4 thousand feet, so a 700 or so ft rollout was not a problem.

All in all, a pretty decent outcome for the maiden. Now I just need to find the time to take are of these few squawks, and then it will be my turn on the sticks.

BTW, just before the first flight, I fitted one of Tam's new gear failsafe units - what a great piece of kit this is, and it took only a few minutes to retrofit into the model. it fits in between the RX and the gear servo, and taps into the gear air pressure line so that it monitors the pressure and over-rides the transmitted gear position to drop your gear if the air pressure falls below a user-selected threshold. A heck of a good idea.

Thanks again to Dave for the impeccable test-pilot work. I give him plenty of s**t, coz we all know he deserves it - but the guy delivers the goods when needed so I guess we should keep him around for a little while longer.

A few pics from Saturday:


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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 9/3/2006 7:30:39 PM   
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Status: online 		Well done, Gordon - it looks stunning! The landing shot could be a photo of the real thing...the 'sit' is perfect!

Cheers,

Dick
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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 9/3/2006 7:31:02 PM   
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Status: online 		Gordon:
Well done, what an awesome picture on final,,,, may she last you a full life of fun.

Great job Dave and well deserved.

Dave

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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 9/3/2006 8:06:13 PM   
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Thanks guys !

The people who usually bring out the ultra high dollar cameras were not present this weekend. Lou did a great job getting some pics such as that landing shot with one of my crappy little cameras, then Scott (RCU id GSR) stepped up and saved the day with these awesome pics:



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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 9/3/2006 8:10:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Finally maidened!!!! Congrats all the way!

Indeed a really terrific picture as you where standing allong the runway some 35 years ago....:


What´s the all-up weight of your model Gordon??

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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 9/3/2006 8:33:57 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Gerald Rutten
What´s the all-up weight of your model Gordon??


I honestly have no idea. I know it's nowhere near the AMA limits, so I didn't bother weighing it. The guys who helped me pick it up to put it on & off the stand remarked at how light it was for such a large model, and also asked me about the AUW -- so I guess that sooner or later I'll have to weigh the parts just so that I can answer.

BTW, Scott posted some video:

quote:

Here is a movie clip of the Hunter maiden take off. Scott
http://media.putfile.com/hunter-maiden
and landing
http://media.putfile.com/hunter-landing




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RE: Building the Mick Reeves Hawker Hunter - 9/4/2006 12:45:06 AM   
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Congratulations on a superb looking model, love the landing shot. You have given me the encouragment to complete mine now.

regards

Arthur

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