New BVM F-18
11-28-2021, 05:28 PM
#351
11-29-2021, 06:34 AM
#352
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Ordered mine Nov 5th and was to be here June-July.
Got a call last Wednesday though from BVM and they said there was a cancellation of a Blue Angels #4.
Wanted #3 but getting it in January instead, I took #4. Have something to look forward to now in always cold snowy Syracuse NY.
Have 2 one+ hours JetCAt P-130's bench run and ready.
Tom
Got a call last Wednesday though from BVM and they said there was a cancellation of a Blue Angels #4.
Wanted #3 but getting it in January instead, I took #4. Have something to look forward to now in always cold snowy Syracuse NY.
Have 2 one+ hours JetCAt P-130's bench run and ready.
Tom
11-29-2021, 07:26 AM
#353
Ordered mine Nov 5th and was to be here June-July.
Got a call last Wednesday though from BVM and they said there was a cancellation of a Blue Angels #4.
Wanted #3 but getting it in January instead, I took #4. Have something to look forward to now in always cold snowy Syracuse NY.
Have 2 one+ hours JetCAt P-130's bench run and ready.
Tom
Got a call last Wednesday though from BVM and they said there was a cancellation of a Blue Angels #4.
Wanted #3 but getting it in January instead, I took #4. Have something to look forward to now in always cold snowy Syracuse NY.
Have 2 one+ hours JetCAt P-130's bench run and ready.
Tom
Good call on taking that jet earlier for a simple number change on the scheme…I’d a done the same 👍
I live an hours drive north of Toronto….so I feel your winter pain 🙂
I had a spare SW190 lying around so I’m going to order a second for my twin….Definitely over powered but that’s what throttle management is for 🙃
12-17-2021, 01:36 PM
#354
For those of you that have the BVM 1.5 F-18 single turbine version, are you cutting "this" (see pic) to move the big turbine more forward allowing the correct distance between tailcone and pipe? Pictures? I would have to move so far forward (fod screen almost touching tank) to get close to required distance with pipe. I still may have to move pipe back .25.
02-17-2022, 01:14 PM
#358
Slight correction. 
McDonnell Douglas did the fwd fuselage, and Northrop did the center fuselage. Northrop did not want to make changes to their center fuselage, to accommodate the LEX fence. The LEX fence being added, to correct a problem with vortex shedding from the LEXs onto the vertical fins...Hence why there are no bolt patterns going to the center fuselage from the fence.
In the end, the relationship worked okay for both companies I think, but since this project was originally a Northrop design, starting as the YF-17, it didn't become the F-18 until McDonnell Douglas was able to "navalize" the design.
This, as I understood it, when I worked at McAir 30 years ago - mostly in the wind tunnel group.
McDonnell Douglas did the fwd fuselage, and Northrop did the center fuselage. Northrop did not want to make changes to their center fuselage, to accommodate the LEX fence. The LEX fence being added, to correct a problem with vortex shedding from the LEXs onto the vertical fins...Hence why there are no bolt patterns going to the center fuselage from the fence.
In the end, the relationship worked okay for both companies I think, but since this project was originally a Northrop design, starting as the YF-17, it didn't become the F-18 until McDonnell Douglas was able to "navalize" the design.
This, as I understood it, when I worked at McAir 30 years ago - mostly in the wind tunnel group.
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12-14-2022, 01:15 PM
#371
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06-13-2023, 06:02 AM
#374
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Out of curiosity, anyone know how to collapse the nose gear with the power off. I figured out how to collapse the main gear but not the nose gear.
Lamont
