Clean
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Joined: 4/19/2002
From: Parkville, MO, USA
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Get the jug, your 28 will pull more prop than my Norvels will and it can use it. Launching with the Norvels however was not that bad but a 10 inch prop would have made it better. I was flying P-51s with Norvel 25's and straight muffler, no need for pipe on these as I was flying at 1/2 to 3/4 throttle most the time to keep from overrunning the competition. I think they have an SBD as well which has more wing and not quite as much forward area as the Jug, might be a good deal. One thing I used to do different though was instead of forming the fuse and then cutting into for a tank, I would hollow the fuse halves for the tank initially, then use Gorrilla glue or Elmers Polyu to actully foam the tank in. I use the Hayes tanks. You have to know where the centerline of your engine is in this method as I would then cut the firewall center prescribed by the Hayes mount out of the plywood. You can access the overflow and fuel pickup plug from whole in the engine mount while it's still in the airplane, something I've had to do from time to time. If you do this, swap out the piece of ply they use for a piece of good aircraft quality ply. There's is fine as a one piece structure but my fuel tank mod cuts down on it's integrety a bit. Translation, if you dorque this sucker straight into the ground from 100 feet and full speed, it tends to get squishy. Field tested there.
When you launch by the way, these planes do suffer from the right rudder needed on takeoff that most scale planes do. By the way, you have no rudder and wouldn't have time to use it anyways. When you launch these, if you launch them flat at the horizon, they will skew off about 15 to 20 degrees before the airspeed cancels out the torque. It looks like you've just let go of a Control Line Rat Racer is what it looks like. You should launch it about 20 degrees up with your right wing dipped a bit and the whole point becomes moot.
I launched mine level and low once and it dropped down to the deck leaving prop cuts in the turf till it picked up enough speed for me to ease back on the stick. Pulling hard on the stick would have smacked the tail on the ground. Anyways, after I cleared the ground I pulled full back and it just rocketed almost straight up and into the action. I've compared it to watching the gun camera footage you see on the history channel of the airplanes straifing airfields. It was kinda amusing seeing the cuts in the runway, closer together at first and farther apart about 20 feet away. I never did really great flying combat, but I didn't totally suck either and the last time I flew I totally kicked butt, powered that is. Last time I flew slope combat I couldn't stay in the air let alone combat.
By the way, follow the links on the JKaerotech website, they show you how to build the aiprlanes step by step. It's great and you'll find yourself running back and forth from table to monitor.
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William Crane (aka Mr Clean) Rever Brother #168 Time Man of the Year
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