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06-02-2003 | 10:37 PM
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From: north aurora, IL,
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hey
has anyone seen the new turbine trainer from hobby hangar?
looks like a decent plane. also has a nice price of 4 hundred and some dollars. any opinions? could it be used as a ductfan then redone into a turbine. would it pass for a turbine trainer. i think it might be too heavy though.
has anyone seen the new turbine trainer from hobby hangar?
looks like a decent plane. also has a nice price of 4 hundred and some dollars. any opinions? could it be used as a ductfan then redone into a turbine. would it pass for a turbine trainer. i think it might be too heavy though.
06-03-2003 | 01:02 AM
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I saw it on display in Toledo. Not a bad looking airplane but would look a lot better with some sort of decent looking canopy.
It never occured to me then but it would probably be a very easy conversion to a pusher prop airplane. Ducted fan would certainly be possible but to me seems like way too much trouble. I'm just guessing the weight of a 17lb thrust class turbine and something like a big Moki engine is roughly the same. It would have to be fairly easy to mount a big glow or even gas engine where the turbine would go.
I think the best feature of the airplane is the huge wing and what appears to be simple construction. Kind of like a turbine version of a Kaos. It would have to be a great flying airplane and the large size and big wing would tend to keep the speed down compared to some of the other so-called trainers which are in reality very fast airplanes.
If I was starting over in jets I would give serious consideration to the Heatwave. Even now I think it would be a great sport model especially for some of the tight flying fields we are forced to use here in the Northeast.
It never occured to me then but it would probably be a very easy conversion to a pusher prop airplane. Ducted fan would certainly be possible but to me seems like way too much trouble. I'm just guessing the weight of a 17lb thrust class turbine and something like a big Moki engine is roughly the same. It would have to be fairly easy to mount a big glow or even gas engine where the turbine would go.
I think the best feature of the airplane is the huge wing and what appears to be simple construction. Kind of like a turbine version of a Kaos. It would have to be a great flying airplane and the large size and big wing would tend to keep the speed down compared to some of the other so-called trainers which are in reality very fast airplanes.
If I was starting over in jets I would give serious consideration to the Heatwave. Even now I think it would be a great sport model especially for some of the tight flying fields we are forced to use here in the Northeast.
