Cool place Carlos.. crosswinds arenīt a issue there!

About the Oly Kangaroo, we had very little information at that time, and experiments were the norm..sometimes we had expensive lessons. but we learned a lot.

This plane flew quite well.. it had great acceleration but it never helped to shorten the takeoff runs. In fact, the more throttle used, the longer the takeoff run, Most time of the short flight time (that thing gulped a lot of kero) was a half throttle or less, and full power was only applied for short time, in a flyby, or in a vertical pull.

The Roo structure never gived up.. at that time Andreas sell them with foam wings and balsa skins and we covered them with lightweight fiberglass cloth. Even the monokoted balsa truss rudders endured the flights.

Landing was almost impossible (no speed brake) due to residual thrust from the Oly. Best way to do it was shutting down the turbine and landing gliding it.

Later we learned that a Pegasus is a much more suitable turbine for this plane, and then some friends developed a streamlined Kangaroo that flew extremely fast with this engine.. I and another friend developed another idea, streamlining a Hotspot with two wing tubes and a lot of CF, with a brand new engine called Jetcat Titan. but this is another story