A few pics of my Balsa Bandit Refurb.. Taken me a long time but finally towards the end..

Congrats on the works!.

I do have an unstarted BVM Balsa Bandit kit and I will follow your thread so as to clarify some details I still do not fully understand.

What turbine engine are you going to use with your BBandit?.

Best Regards.

I love those balsa bandits!

Nice job!

Looks good, given the old girl a new lease on life.
Alan T

Got a bit more done today .. Painted inside the Fuselage. Will paint the Bypass etc tomorrow and then its assembly time. Turbine will be a Jet Munt VT80.

Is that a super balsa bandit? The 80 sounds a little anemic.

No its a standard Balsa Bandit. I flew it with the VT80 before I stripped it and performance was awesome!!

I'd agree. I flew mine on an early Wren supersport which would have been around 80N. Performance was very good indeed and a completely different Bandit to fly than the more heavily loaded norm at the time which were fitted with 120's and 160's

jasson

Im going to very respectfully disagree with you Ravill. Tisdall has a Classic BB (possibly my fav Bandit).

Mine weighed in at just 19 lbs with a PST 600. Fit a VT 80 and you have nearly 1:1, which is yahoo territory with a Bandit.
Plus. A light weight is more nimble, more forgiving, and just more user friendly than the fire breathers...

Looks great Tisdale

Cool thread, just about to do a touch up on paint of my 16+ year old BB Bandit in prototype color scheme. Short final ��. Anyway will be passing it down to my boys. Great flying machine and built to last!!!!!!

The only bandits I've ever had have been all based on the super bandit moieties, hence why I asked!

Thank you for the education gentlemen and you guys know I'm a bandit lover! Woohoo!

I’m with you all the way there Rav. Bandits Rock.

The original Bandit was first released in 1996!! Way before the “Chinese ARF” movement. It was originally designed for methanol ducted fans, or the JPX 240 flame thrower. Either power plant would struggle to put out more than 8 lbs on a good day, but they still performed and impressed.

In the intervening 2 decades it has gone through upgrades of materials and construction techniques, and one major redesign to the Super Bandit fuselage, but the basic air frame layout and wing plan remains of which all Bandits share. (Excluding the Ultra, which is something else altogether).

They have been fitted with pretty much every engine on the market from Wren 44s to P180s. I have heard of a Munts M 200 XBL going into one!!

BV got it right with this model .

We should remember the original Bandit flew on JPX power, which if I remember right made about 10 pounds of thrust on a good day, if you were lucky.