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HELLO :

PICT FROM THE F-20.

HELLO :

PICT FROM THE F-20

Your spelling is terrible man, you need to go back to school. Recommend you begin at the 3rd grade since some merit has to be given to the fact that you can post here on RCU.

Robert I have built and flown it. It was fast with a K&B 7.5 and Turbax 1 fan. It would lose its energy and momentum in the turns however. Also the engine would quit often due to fuel tank location. It needs a header tank if you can find room.

I think the .65 and Dynamax may come out too heavy.
Jim

Ramtec,

Something about glass houses ........

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Hi Robert,

I built and flew a Thorjet F-20 and had a great deal of fun with it using both Turbax/K&B.45 and, latterly, a Thorjet and OS.46. I found that you had to nurse it for a half a lap after take-off to let it get over the drag of take-off and get up to speed, and its low aspect ratio lack of wings meant it bled off energy very well in tight turns! For what it's worth, my advice would be to build it light - apart from the 4 'corner stringers, substitute the hardwood stringers for hard balsa ones, cut lightening holes in the formers and the inner fuselage floor 'plank', leave off the hardwood strips on the fin and tailplanes, and do built-up wings as opposed to the foam ones. I wanted to make mine into an F-5 so I left off the big balsa fairing at the base of the fin too.

Built light and straight and the F-20 will surprise you with its performance. Mine lasted 130 'adventures' with me as F-5, 74-1553, of the 527th AS done in brown/green/beige 'froggy' scheme. It did more than that with its second owner and it's final keeper, Paul Mitchell, (he re-painted it in blue/grey/beige and changed the number to 74-1535) was up in to the 170s when the fan came off and took out the control runs...no more F-20! I built it in 1989 and it 'blew up' in 2000 - 11 years...not bad for a wooden model! Incidentally, if you want to see pictures of this model, it features in Paul Mitchell's Ice Life columnn in the Oct/Nov 2002 RCJI.

Cheers,

Dick
England

Thanks for chiming in there ramtec2!, I think I now now where this came from, is this you? If you are not going to offer help don't post at all, we do not want to see that kind of stuff, there are enough idiots in the world without having to deal with them in our hobby too! Robert, plane looks great!



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Sorry, I could not resist. I have only seen this guy post negative comments.


HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Mr. Who Refuses to Post His Real Name,

You've now demonstrated to RCU members, that you're not only obessed with attempting to annoy and insult people, but you also enjoy pretending to be something you're obviously not, this being even remotely intelligent. Ahem...I've tried to help YOUR grammatical mistakes, so you can attempt to ridicule people while not wearing a dunce cap at the same time. I think that you were trying to state the following (See below):

"Your spelling makes it difficult to comprehend your meanings on occasion. Perhaps a few language arts classes would make you a better writer. I would recommend a community or state college, so you can save your money for more important things, such as RC jets. You have already demonstrated that you have the ability to utilize the RCU network. English is no more complicated than using a computer program. As with anything, it just requires practice. Good luck and God speed. Let me know if I can help in any way."
Sincerely, Ramtec2

There you go, Ramtec2. This is a start, anyhow. Notice how the ideas flow together logically. It's no longer choppy and lacking any kind of rationale. Next time, try to put more effort into your own intelligence, before making a feeble attempt at insulting someone else's.

Steve