what's a good slick airframe for a pair of OS55ax's
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Well, yeah. mostly cause I have one sitting on the shelf . I don't really think I'm missing out if it get's bashed into something else. Like I said, it's gonna be a tester to see what I can come up with.
I've got 2 brand new 55ax's and a kougar kit that I ain't doing anything with. Way I got it figured, just need to figure out how to build nacelles into a foam core , sheeted wing... s'matter? coffee not kickin in yet? haha
I've got 2 brand new 55ax's and a kougar kit that I ain't doing anything with. Way I got it figured, just need to figure out how to build nacelles into a foam core , sheeted wing... s'matter? coffee not kickin in yet? haha
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heck yeah, 'Twogar' , that's funny, your getting ahead of me on your posting !
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Well, heck, Watcha waiting for? Tear that box open and let's get on with it. I don't have any experience with foam cores, but I've seen build threads of people who have built them. I know you can glue wood into the foam as to make hard points to mount to. Just think it out good and you'll come up with something. Especially with the help of people in these threads. Anything is possible.
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I'd thought that the 55's were more of a torque motor than speed. I know I've seen the rpm range listed as, 2000 to 17k. But I've never seen one spin over the mid 14's and that was with a 9x7 prop on 15% nitro. how fast would a fan need to spin and how big would it need to be in diameter and how many blades at what pitch would be the equivelant for a say 12x6 prop?
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Well, heck, Watcha waiting for? Tear that box open and let's get on with it. I don't have any experience with foam cores, but I've seen build threads of people who have built them. I know you can glue wood into the foam as to make hard points to mount to. Just think it out good and you'll come up with something. Especially with the help of people in these threads. Anything is possible.
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I wouldn't put twin 55's on a Kougar. It's way too much engine and as the gentleman said - it won't fly all that great with the extra weight. Twin .30's would be the most I'd put on a Kougar.
It can be bashed into a lot of things but I honestly think the two 55's will pretty much ruin the kit and you probably won't like it.
You just have way too many options. You have to decide what kind of plane you want - sport, scale, fast, not so fast, etc. I understand it being a hard decision. Too many choices is always harder than having one thing in front of you that doesn't give you many options.
It can be bashed into a lot of things but I honestly think the two 55's will pretty much ruin the kit and you probably won't like it.
You just have way too many options. You have to decide what kind of plane you want - sport, scale, fast, not so fast, etc. I understand it being a hard decision. Too many choices is always harder than having one thing in front of you that doesn't give you many options.
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Pat used to provide a laser-cut short kit version of the Duelist ([email protected]) for a reasonable price.
The Duelist is a great looking plane, and I have seen it with retracts. Not sure how fast you can push it though...
The Duelist is a great looking plane, and I have seen it with retracts. Not sure how fast you can push it though...
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I've designed and built a few sport twins in the past. The way to do nacelles on a foam wing is to build a plywood box big enough to hold the tank and servo. Put the firewall on the front of the box and make it long enough to go from the calculated firewall position to any spar that you have in the wing. Then just cut out the foam and glue the box in place.
The problem you will have with the Kougar is weight. You will be adding the extra engine, prop, spinner, tank, fuel, servo, two nacelles and two cowls. That would be adding at least three pounds to a 40 size airplane that is overweight to start with. Then if you add retracts......
You would need to make the wing larger to carry the extra weight. Then you need to make the tail larger to maintain tracking.....
But, hey.... As you said, you can try whatever you want. It's only an experiment.
The problem you will have with the Kougar is weight. You will be adding the extra engine, prop, spinner, tank, fuel, servo, two nacelles and two cowls. That would be adding at least three pounds to a 40 size airplane that is overweight to start with. Then if you add retracts......
You would need to make the wing larger to carry the extra weight. Then you need to make the tail larger to maintain tracking.....
But, hey.... As you said, you can try whatever you want. It's only an experiment.
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I've designed and built a few sport twins in the past. The way to do nacelles on a foam wing is to build a plywood box big enough to hold the tank and servo. Put the firewall on the front of the box and make it long enough to go from the calculated firewall position to any spar that you have in the wing. Then just cut out the foam and glue the box in place.
The problem you will have with the Kougar is weight. You will be adding the extra engine, prop, spinner, tank, fuel, servo, two nacelles and two cowls. That would be adding at least three pounds to a 40 size airplane that is overweight to start with. Then if you add retracts......
You would need to make the wing larger to carry the extra weight. Then you need to make the tail larger to maintain tracking.....
But, hey.... As you said, you can try whatever you want. It's only an experiment.
The problem you will have with the Kougar is weight. You will be adding the extra engine, prop, spinner, tank, fuel, servo, two nacelles and two cowls. That would be adding at least three pounds to a 40 size airplane that is overweight to start with. Then if you add retracts......
You would need to make the wing larger to carry the extra weight. Then you need to make the tail larger to maintain tracking.....
But, hey.... As you said, you can try whatever you want. It's only an experiment.
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I was thinking more along the lines of using a macs tuned pipe on each. I've not ran any of my own 55's for speed, but one of our club members has one with a macs pipe running 30% nitro with castor and a 9x8 prop,still don't know whrere he got that from, and that thing will turn 16k all day long . so I do know they can be extremely fast if set up for it. it's not something I would do though
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You may be the first to run tuned pipes on twin nacelles. They would tend to stick out past the trailing edge a bit.
(Now someone will come up with a photo showing that it has been done, I'm sure.)
BTW, the King Cobra is a Sig kit of a larger size Kougar. You would still be adding 3+ pounds to it, but at least the basic airframe would start out with more capacity to carry it.
Jim
(Now someone will come up with a photo showing that it has been done, I'm sure.)
BTW, the King Cobra is a Sig kit of a larger size Kougar. You would still be adding 3+ pounds to it, but at least the basic airframe would start out with more capacity to carry it.
Jim
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That is a pretty Airplane!!!
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You may be the first to run tuned pipes on twin nacelles. They would tend to stick out past the trailing edge a bit.
(Now someone will come up with a photo showing that it has been done, I'm sure.)
BTW, the King Cobra is a Sig kit of a larger size Kougar. You would still be adding 3+ pounds to it, but at least the basic airframe would start out with more capacity to carry it.
Jim
(Now someone will come up with a photo showing that it has been done, I'm sure.)
BTW, the King Cobra is a Sig kit of a larger size Kougar. You would still be adding 3+ pounds to it, but at least the basic airframe would start out with more capacity to carry it.
Jim
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You may be the first to run tuned pipes on twin nacelles. They would tend to stick out past the trailing edge a bit.
(Now someone will come up with a photo showing that it has been done, I'm sure.)
BTW, the King Cobra is a Sig kit of a larger size Kougar. You would still be adding 3+ pounds to it, but at least the basic airframe would start out with more capacity to carry it.
Jim
(Now someone will come up with a photo showing that it has been done, I'm sure.)
BTW, the King Cobra is a Sig kit of a larger size Kougar. You would still be adding 3+ pounds to it, but at least the basic airframe would start out with more capacity to carry it.
Jim
So I bought NovaRossi .15's which are way heavier than I want to use.
But yes, the pipes are a problem as the wing chord will be about 8" where the engines mount and most of the pipe will hang off the back of the wing. I was looking at 4 to 4.5 pounds ready to fly with retracts.
The only solution I think might be possible will be to rotate the engines so the pipes mount to the fuselage sides. I haven't put it on paper to see how it would work exactly but the project is dead anyway unless I can find some lighter screaming .15's. The NovaRossi's are too big and too heavy. I have a Webra Speed .32 that's about the same weight - I think slightly lighter than the NovaRossi .15s.
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The King Kobra would be nice with the twin .55's I think. Or maybe three of them.