mikeyfly

Love your paint scheme. Makes it look it look like a flying shark!

It is a quick model if built light. It is very nearly as fast as a Bandit.

On the advice of Tom Wilkinson, my son and I put a Wren Wright pipe in and it just transformed it. You must allow enough air to travel down the OUTSIDE of the pipe and even then reinforce the central hatch with CF as the internal air pressure can fold it half and blow it off! The model seams to supercharge the engine. If the air exit on the outside of the pipe becomes blocked - you melt the gas supply pipe to the engine! I presume, with those big intakes, the thrust pipe just can not get the air away fast enough!

Try to find the right fuel bottle. We lost the first fuselage due to running out of fuel and attempting a dead stick landing half a mile away. We now have a 3 litre BUXTON water bottle in it. With a JF50 Super Bee (approx 6Kg) and approx 2 1/4 litre on board, we get about 10 to 11 minutes with enough for another circuit in the tank on landing. Your engine sounds more powerful and thirstier so keep a good friend to spot for you on those first few flights!

Wishing you every good luck.