Look what I found! I plan to use it as my aileron trainer. I thought it would be fun to document this "before my time" jet.
Back in 1998 I came home on leave from Aviano, Italy. Little did I know someone was buying me a nice BVM Bandit in Lincoln, Nebraska. It would find me 18 years later.
Let see what we have here first and later I'll layout the plan.
Wings, tanks, turbine kit, gear, its all there.
Sexy
Clear Canopy
Box full of Goodies, hardware, valves, air line, everything.
Ram 750 install kit, like the truck??
They used to come with a ****load of cocaine. "Raw Materials", Good one!
I suppose they figured you are already smoking crack for paying that much in the first place.
Original external air cylinders
Original gear and a set of purple retracts I plan to use.
Original BVM smooth stop, V1
PPG$ Primer
They used to put cow urine in the epoxy back then apparently.
Heres a question to start it off, I have the original single wall pipe which has to be built up to a dual wall. Its seems kinda flimsy, is it up to the task of a K140g? (27-30 lbs of thrust).
Also what was the weight of the original ram 750 turbine? I'd like to see how much the K140g will weigh it down.