Ican't say enough good things about this combo. Thanks Eric and Keith Seivers (sp?) for the shove and advice..... Thanks to Buck, Ron and Bob-o for the encouragement and tips. I can now say "she is completely dial!" Oh yeah..... and thanks to Dougie for pushing crow.... when he said, "like butta" Ireally thought "yeah, the day I land something like butta......" but it's even easy than you said Dougie..... it makes my landings look great - so easy and perfect short-field capable jet. GREATgas mileage (7 minutes) and ready for smoke. Thanks to Kevin Whitlow for the inspiration of just flying the shizzle out of a bobcat flight after flight after flight - now I gotta start workin' on some of those moves! Ilogged my 40th flight on her today after just a few weeks and it just gets better every flight. Iwould recommend this combo for ANYONEjust starting out or for an EXPERTfor an everyday sweet flyer.</p>

And you fly it like it's on rails. Great job.

Bob-o, those words are too nice - it flies itself. The quality of the equipment is just incredible. You can feel the engineering expertisethrough the sticks. Kool Aid completely consumed!

How did things go at Bomber? We had a wicked storm blow in really quick just before sundown up here.

Got about 1/3 of the way there and the wind started blowing like hell and then rain. Turned around and came home. Try again tomorrow

you're doing great amigo. glad i could help.

Congrats .... great looking model.

Regards, K.

What is your top speed with that combo, sounds sweet but is it Fassssst??

Not blistering but fast enough for me..... Iwould guess 180 or so flat and level. A friend radared my passes and it wasn't straight-on about 15-20 degree angle and the passes were about 3/4 throttle at 140. If you want speed, go with a Rhino or 160 - you'll just pay for it in flight time. Timer set for 7 min now. Couldn't be happier!

My BC ARF and Rabbit combo were clocked right at 200 in level flight (no dive) with a radar gun. It was right at the legal limit.

Keith, do you have smoke on your BC? How many ounces of fuel do you carry?

Dude, did you ever saw Joey's with the BMT 180??? that thing was sick. But sicker is the fact that BC can take it.

smitty1001,

Great looking Bobcat, really nice.

Do you know what the finished weight is? fueled andready to fly?

My BobCat has a Rabbit clone on it (Merlin 90) and it's a perfect match.

Jason

Never weighed it - Iwould guess with fuel probably around 20lbs.

Mines 20lb dry (well with a full UAT)

J

Sounds about right - how much fuel are you guys carrying? Ihave the two wing tanks and a 16oz vertical tank in the middle so about 84oz.

I've got the two side tanks and the kevlar 28oz in the middle. Does a 7 min flight with the 21.5lb Merlin.

Jason

David, That Bobcat of Joey's/Scott's/Elvis'who-knows-who-owns-it had a 160 on it, around 36lbs...... yeah, sick!</p>

Here are some more pics

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I got the saddles and a 32 ounce dubro, so about 100 ounces onboard, and I have the BVM center tank which is another 40.

When I run the center tank as fuel I fly about 10 to 12 minutes, when I run the center tank as smoke, I run about 7 minutes.

Found my first weakness on the Bobcat. Have been chasing a roll problem (fairly hard left roll with G) for ever, I finally pinned the LE of the port wing and it is like a new plane

Mine Is BVM recommended equipment all around with the Kevlar round 28oz in center and UAT, with an AMT Mercury I run pretty much full throttle and start 6 minute timer at takeoff roll out. Land with atleast 14oz in center plus header.

Mine equipped with an Eagle tree and straight level air speeds register 180mph in summer 185-188mph in fall. Verticals drop to 100MPH around 400'. The rabbit sounds like a nice combo and should be better performance numbers easily.

I've seen Patrick Frosts BC with a monster in back and it was too fast and ran out of eyesight quickly given its small size for visual. In my opinion, the only room to improve a BC/Rabbit combo would be to go LITE and get better power to weight combo for verticals. Lipos, wires cut to size, micro servos for valves, liter servos, velcro/carbon substites for plywood mounting parts, maybe even Lectra undercarriage, (uncle bob told me a pound lighter??) titanium screw use, just a few items off top my head.

Photo looks awesome, I know the feeling..............

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