where is greenbow? Near huntsville? I might just have to come watch this

Lets see some photos of this thing!

oh greenbow. sorry about that I was quoting the movie forest gump. he lives in greenbow al. I really live in NH . All is looking GREAT for this weekend. Car was running good today till I stripped the gears off in the servo. I am just going to throw a standard servo on there for this weekend tho. NOTIHNG will stop me now. Knock on wood.

I went to the LHS today and got some tires for a plane that are about 2 in dia. I am going to make a set of tires that extend off the sides of the car about 1 in off the ground so if it starts to tip the wing wont scrape on the ground.

Here is a rough sketch, the ornge represents the new part.

I have not read all the reply's, not enought time,

Why not drop the engine out of the car to save wieght, and just use it as a rolling chasis. With the right engine and prop you could drive both, a prop powered car,there's a thought [:-]

that idea has been discussed, I like to bring it back up tho. I dont think it is a good idea to take the engine out of the car because it is sopposed to be more of a car that can be launched off a jump and glided to safty. the engine on the plane was a after thot, along with model rocket engines and bottle rockets. ohh. Still lookin good for this weekend. I have 1 camera to tape with, hopeing to get a seccond.

edited some of my spelling[:'(]

STILL LOOKING GOOD!!! just one more day that I need to get through till nothing major comes up for the weekend. I can see it now that there is going to be a monsoon in my area on saterday. I dont event know what a monsoon is, all well it sounds bad and I dont want to see one around here till monday.

Wow, This is gonna be really interesting to see!!! Make sure that there are plenty of pics and video!!

Just noticed something ... the ramp is way too steep, the plane will stall. Its not a buggy that you want to have 'big air', its a plane, wings will stall at such high AOA. Unless its a rocket its not gonna be good having such a steep ramp.

ya I am not using that jump any more. I am just going to use a pice of ply wood tipped up a little to make more of a ramp.

110% agree to Skynyrdman........ Videos are a must.

tomarows the day!!!!!!!!! here are some pics for you. I decided once I got the plane attached to the car that there was no way it would glide. it would have less flight time than a rock. so I decided to throw a o.s .46 engine on there about 30 secconds ago. Just have to bolt it on and hook up the throttle servo.

oh and that pice of aluminum is to bolt my motor mount to. I used that because the existing wood is now in a field somwheres, and I dont have enouf time till take off to be waiting for glue to dry.

So there will be 2 different transmittters? There MUST be a video. I would also put one of those model rocket engines on for good call

correct there is going to be one transmitter to controled my jim. and the car will be controled by me. got it together, I still think I missed somthing tho.

Let me tell you what everything that could go wrong did. first the wire that goes to the glow plug on my car broke off, see it is all atomatic from the ez start system. and I cant get a glow ignitor on it because the plane is in they way. so I made a roll pin that fits on the glow plug and wired it in, as pictured.

well here are some pics, hope you guys like it. go easy on me I just worked on it for about 5 hours straight and really hope it works.

pics

more pics. hope you guys dont have dial up connection.

wow who put that pic in there, oh ya it was me. that is my subaru, it goes good in the mud. when I get to fustrated with my rc stuff I go boonin in the back yard with that to losen up a little. works good.

Looking good. So on take off will the prop be going full throttle also? And does can the plane pull it on the ground?

I dont under stand your poast.

When you take off, will both car and plane be going full throttle? And will the plane engine pull the car when the car is off

In theory, We hope to be going full throttle with the plane then get crusing with the car and hit a sheet of plywood that is proped up about 4 inches. Once we hit the wood we hope it will keep going up or stay level. I dont know how this is going to work tho, I think the wings are going to break now looking at it all together, and realizing how much it weighs.

well I am off to go test it out, be back later!

I can't wait to see this video...

Are we to assume that you did not meet the 6 lb. weight that you had estimate? How much does the completed system weigh?

I dont know about the weight, probly about 8 lbs. I got some footage for you guys, I couldent figure out how to the the camcorder hooked up to the computer so I just typed the good parts off my tv with my camer, sorry the best I can do FOR NOW.

give me 15 minutes to make the vid presentable.

here is the vid. also keep in mind that this is on my website and there is a limited bandwidth, http://webzoom.freewebs.com/mittimj/AVACAR.wmv dont forget to watch the credits also.