One thing I love about this hobby is that one size doesn’t fit all and there’s room for imagination. When first getting into jets some 13-14 years ago I (heavily) modified a Great Planes Giant Stik for turbine power. The wing was substantially beefed up and the fuse wound up about half scratch-built, mostly from the wing forward. It weighed 22 lbs wet but due to the generous wing area flew just fine on a P-60 with only 13 lbs thrust.

I recently completed V2 of that “What if Anthony Fokker had a jet engine in 1918?” concept, this time building a larger fuse and empennage entirely from scratch. Think of a Fokker E-III-J and you get the idea. Weighs in at 26.5 lbs wet (28 with smoke) and is pushed by a Xicoy 120 de-rated to a 90 a t2-lbs thrust. No surprise, it is cake to fly and feels just like a heavy, kinda-fast Giant Stik…probably because that’s exactly what it is :-)

It’s not everyone’s cup of tea of course, but I like to think that Phil Kraft would have approved and I certainly enjoy the (usually positive) “What the heck…” responses at the field and…as I said, I love the room for imagination that the hobby provides :-)

Awesome

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I like it!

Very unique 👌

Reminds me of a ShockJet, just from 1917, haha! Love these kinds of creative projects

I love it. I did several projects like this in the past. What ever you can think of you can fly!
Great job!
Gary

That's Awesome.....love the guns...

The guns are actually from the new H9 Fokker D VII, and they actually serve a useful purpose as the hatch lock/release mechanism :-)