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Old 08-03-2009 | 10:23 AM
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From: Leuven-Diest, BELGIUM
Default T22 Warrior (Christen Diffusion)

I couldn't find very much info about this jet when I wanted to buy it, especially no video of it flying. So now that I have it, I decided I would post a little info about it online.

The is the site of the french manufacterer : [link]http://christen.diffusion.online.fr/t22.htm[/link] It's all in French, so that's maybe why I couldn't find much info in English.

The jet is a full fiberglass airframe. Fuselage, wings, stabs are all composite material. Light and strong.
Wings and vertical stabs are easily removable for transport (1 screw each).

The Jet is a sport/trainer model. Mine comes in at about 12.5kg, fueled up and ready to go. I have a jetcat P160 in it and with 2.8l of fuel I can fly 8-10 minutes with throttle management.
The jet flies very good and is forgiving, as a jet trainer should be. It has the typical high alpha characteristics of a deltawing and I haven't discovered any bad habits yet.
The canards are mixed with the elevator, not with ailerons. The plane is sensitive enough on ailerons alone, but on elevator it's a bit slow, so the canards help out nicely there.
The tailplanes are divided in 2, each with its own servo and can be wired to operate seperately as elevator / ailerons (recommended by the manufacterer) but I have them both operating as tailerons (as if they would'nt be separated, kinda like in a funjet)

It was my first fuel jet after about 1.5 years of experience with ducted fan models (shumate F-14, het-rc F-20 and Lubach F-16). I (re)maidened her myself and I can recommend her for beginning fuel jet flyers.

Here's a video of a flight : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzkgnF7Ta6I[/youtube]

One disadvantage for me is that the jet has short rear gearlegs and therefore is very close to the ground on the rear. If you take off from grass like me, you'll need to put a fire resistant plate under the rear, to keep the grass from catching fire. (It doesn't help for your nerves when you set the grass on fire as you are doing a final check before maiden with engine on. Believe me, I know ;-) )

Hope this info can be usefull to someone. If any questions, shoot :-)