RCU Forums - View Single Post - Holy cow!!!!!!!
View Single Post
Old 12-17-2004, 11:53 PM
  #14  
Silvanskii
My Feedback: (17)
 
Silvanskii's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Chesapeake, VA
Posts: 784
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Default RE: Holy cow!!!!!!!

ORIGINAL: LearjetMech

I also heard it was a bird! But as mentioned earlier, they have about a 90 sec hover limit. I believe the engines are water with possibly methonol injected for cooling during hover. And I think the tank capacity is roughly 90 sec. Could be wrong though!
If they have a 90 second timelimit then the guy at last year's Dayton Airshow needed a complete overhaul of his engine after his display, which included 3, over 4 minute hovers including 2 short field takeoffs. Unfortunately that's all he did except for 1 high speed pass into a high G break.