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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/26/2008 9:21:54 AM

maxvertical

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Thanks Bruce Sure is a comfort to know this ship will handle so much, and I'm not near as heavy as the example you quoted. LOL Yet! I bet those winglet's will really pop with that nice paint!

We are getting 250' more runway paved in the next couple of weeks. Hope you will consider coming over for a weekend and flying with us some time. That will bring the count to 550' paved with 150' in mat for a total of 700.

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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/26/2008 5:33:45 PM

Molar mender

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Chris

The field improvements sound like a real winner. How wide is the runway? A lot of us guys used to come to Oregon every year when they had the Central Oregon Jet Rally in Madras. It started in 1992 and went until 2003 which was the year of the AV8R's and the year Bruce flew his pre-production Reaction 54. It was held on the Memorial day weekend which was a little iffy weather wise. But I have a lot of good memories of Madras.

If your club would consider a rally for this year, the weekend of 20-22 June would be perfect. It would be in between Princeton, BC, Canada which is 29 May- 1 June; Idaho Jets is 6-8 June; and Montana is scheduled for 18-20 July. With the price of fuel going up, another local jet meet would be great.

Roy

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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/30/2008 4:19:21 AM

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Another R54 Maiden!

The first two flights of the "F9F Panther-like" Reaction went flawlessly at the DCRC field in Germantown, MD today.

She's powered by a Wren 54 SS, Futaba 14MZ 2.4 GHz, Hitec servos as recommended by BTE.

Thanks to all on this thread for so much help and insight, and thanks of course to Bruce for a wonderful airplane.

Dave McQ

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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/30/2008 4:45:44 AM

Eddie P

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NICE

I bet that SS pushed your R54 like crazy. Good fuel flow numbers too.

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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/30/2008 10:02:41 AM

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Actually Roy, we are talking about trying to get a Jet meet organized for Central Oregon. Madras was nice but I think the timing was poor. Memorial day wasn't the best time to try to hold an event. I'm not sure we will be doing an event in 2008 other than our big Firecracker three day in July for all airplanes, but 2009 will give us enough time to put together a very nice jet event. Have four more guys to get signed off in April, so the jet group in Oregon is growing.. Finally..
The Bend Aero Modelers runway will be 700'. That's 550' blacktop with 150' over-run that's in mat. Runway is 30' wide. Just for the record, Madras was repaved and is now 15' wide with a inch or two drop-off. Can be a little hard on airplanes. I know DK, the CD for Madras got burnout with it, and has moved on to IMAC stuff.

Congrats there Dave McQ ! They sure fly nice don't they! Can't say enough about Bruce's design but I hear all his airplanes fly this good.

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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/30/2008 1:11:53 PM

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ORIGINAL: ww2birds

Another R54 Maiden!

The first two flights of the "F9F Panther-like" Reaction went flawlessly at the DCRC field in Germantown, MD today.

She's powered by a Wren 54 SS, Futaba 14MZ 2.4 GHz, Hitec servos as recommended by BTE.

Thanks to all on this thread for so much help and insight, and thanks of course to Bruce for a wonderful airplane.

Dave McQ

Congrats on the maiden! GREAT looking airplane! You'll enjoy the heck out of it!

Dave Rigotti

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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/30/2008 1:27:25 PM

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Dave congrats on the maiden. Your plane looks great. BTE is out of Reactions for the time being and as I understand it won't have any kits for a couple of months.

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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/30/2008 2:25:46 PM

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If anyone is looking for a kit a freind of mine still has a kit with the retract package that he might sell since he is building a Zirioli turbinator right now. Just give me a day to contact him and I'll post his contact info if he has it for sale.

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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/30/2008 3:07:51 PM

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Congrats Dave McQ! Hope it brings you many smiles for years to come.

Props to your camera man (or woman) too - those are excellent flight shots!

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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/30/2008 6:09:36 PM

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Actually Roy, we are talking about trying to get a Jet meet organized for Central Oregon. Madras was nice but I think the timing was poor. Memorial day wasn't the best time to try to hold an event. I'm not sure we will be doing an event in 2008 other than our big Firecracker three day in July for all airplanes, but 2009 will give us enough time to put together a very nice jet event. Have four more guys to get signed off in April, so the jet group in Oregon is growing..

Chris

Just sent you a PM

Roy

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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/30/2008 8:49:58 PM

ww2birds

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Thanks Bruce.

Inflight shots were by by Nir Schweitzer, the on-the-ground shot by Andy Kane. Shame on me for not properly referencing them!

Thanks all for the compliments .. two more flights today, and still can't wipe the smile off...

Dave

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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/30/2008 11:31:52 PM

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Dave great job on the R-54. I am sure we have met before but if not we will now that you are in the Md. turbine group. I hope you plan on going to the fentress fly-in this year we always have a great time there. Both Andy's, Nir, Tony M and myself are usually there on friday. Maybe now that DCRChas so many turbine guys they should have a flyin themselves.

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RE: Reaction 54 Jet Kit - 3/31/2008 1:06:20 AM

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Update on my first flight. Went out to maiden today. It was in the mid 30's with 10mph winds. I set up the plane but found that one of the flaps was not working. So, I did not get to fly today. Chased the problem to a servo extension that had a broken wire in the connector. It worked at home earlier this week but showed it's defect luckily before takeoff.

Oh well, have to wait till Friday. Otherwise I'm busy next weekend so if I can't fly Friday afternoon then I'll have to wait another week

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I had spooled the plane up and taxied around in my yard earlier this week. I was all psyched. Now I'm psyced out!

Jim

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