Best size wheels for it and CG.

Tks.

A whole lot information for you: :-) https://carf-models.com/files/page/8...structions.pdf

The CG in mine is way different because of the canards.. in a "normal" one , about 10 cm in front of the wing spar is OK.

Love this thing. To me is one of the most fun jets ever made.

Thank you both for the info, a club member got one sometime ago, he was flying it with a gas engine, he now has a turbine and I'm helping him to get it back in the air the right way.

Reminds me something that happened with a friend of mine. in 1998 he bought a Kangaroo with a brand new ram 1000 that insisted to work like a flamethrower.... To make the story short the ram didnīt worked , and he wanted to test the plane anyway, so he attached a 120 glow engine, with pusher prop, a perry pump, etc.. it quite flew for a while, until he read somewhere that the best turbine available at the time was the AMT olympus. Bought one, and the Roo flew for a while with it. Landings were interesting as at that time Roos didnīt have speed brake.

Cant imagine this kind of technological abuse this days, nor any plane that could endure that but the Roo...LOL

I had one, flew with a Simjet 2300, it was my first jet, I nearly sold all my rc stuff including the first born and cat to get the turbine

The first time I saw it I thought it was a big airplane, if you place it next to what is flying out there now it will be easy to change that word to small.

I remember when you started... and yes,Roos, Bandits , etc.. are small for today standards .I dont want any big sport jet, as I still can see it and itīs damm practical. :-)

Yep! 2002 was the year, thank you for all the help you gave me then and now.

Anytime Carlos!

Here, a chilaxing afternoon at the flying field

Nice! this is your club? some times I think that life that really matters is at this places. This is ours, last weekend.

Yes, agree.

Now that I'm not driving, yes, that is my flying field with new petromat, the only other member today at the field was a pattern flyer practicing his new sequence, just the two of us all day.

Now that I'd have to see! How in the actual frick would you fit an olympus on a kangaroo?????? A Pegasus I could totally see and back in that time the Pegasus was THE engine out there. I've had Kangaroo's and I've had a number of Olympus's and Pegasus' engines. I know anything can be done if you try hard enough but good god, I just cannot picture an Oly on a Kangaroo!!

I found a picture on the net of my Simjet mounted on my Roo.

Cool place Carlos.. crosswinds arenīt a issue there!

About the Oly Kangaroo, we had very little information at that time, and experiments were the norm..sometimes we had expensive lessons. but we learned a lot.

This plane flew quite well.. it had great acceleration but it never helped to shorten the takeoff runs. In fact, the more throttle used, the longer the takeoff run, Most time of the short flight time (that thing gulped a lot of kero) was a half throttle or less, and full power was only applied for short time, in a flyby, or in a vertical pull.

The Roo structure never gived up.. at that time Andreas sell them with foam wings and balsa skins and we covered them with lightweight fiberglass cloth. Even the monokoted balsa truss rudders endured the flights.

Landing was almost impossible (no speed brake) due to residual thrust from the Oly. Best way to do it was shutting down the turbine and landing gliding it.

Later we learned that a Pegasus is a much more suitable turbine for this plane, and then some friends developed a streamlined Kangaroo that flew extremely fast with this engine.. I and another friend developed another idea, streamlining a Hotspot with two wing tubes and a lot of CF, with a brand new engine called Jetcat Titan. but this is another story