Skycat66

Dear all,

Maiden of the F16, kit www.scale-jets.com, of Gerald Rutten. This plane is a super light version with the intention to use for F4C scale competation.
It's powered by Gerald own build turbine with 18kg trust.

See movie: www.youtube.com/watch

Greetings Ray

Homepage Gerald:http://members.tele2.nl/geraldensuzanne/
Homepage Scale-jets.com:www.scale-jets.com

DelGatoGrande

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Congratulations guys[sm=thumbup.gif]

Gerald seems to push the flight envelop for a "maiden"[X(]

powerjets

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Congrats Gerald ! Impressive as always !
Was that at Gilze-Rijen ?
regards, Hans

Gerald Rutten

Tnx Ray for posting! It is a very exitening experience to fly this model, a delighful piece of machine! I fly the Avonds F16 for many years now which is easy to fly but this one is even more relaxed and very scale to fly. Lot of work went in it till now and still lot's of work left after these first flights.

Full working speedbrakes, flaps and leading edge flaps. Landing gear is own design and very lightweight made, took me 6 months to make, see movie below.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XODoZbavs6g[/youtube]

Marijn from Scale-jets, living close to me, talked me through the first flights but proved unnessesary due to the good flying characteristics, tnx Marijn!




Best regards,
Gerald

Gerald Rutten

Tnx Hans, no, that was near Arnhem...you know! Gilze-Rijen is just too tight for models like these.

Best regards,
Gerald

powerjets

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Really ? it looks like your taking off from a taxiway ?
that is not the Main at Deelen..
Hans

Gerald Rutten

Some more impressions from first flight, also tnx to Ray;

Gerald Rutten

That's correct. New procedure when wind from the north where glider activities hold our normal main crossing position. Not very often but indeed not the best....it seems we modellers alway's take the shortest straw.....you know ha ha ha!

Rgds,
Gerald

powerjets

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Well for sure its got the realistic look on the first flight, I can imagine what it'll be like after 50 flights.
Tell you what, the Klu should get rid of their full size and have you do the airshows for the same money...Haha

smaze17

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Very nice!!!!

SM

Skycat66

He Gerald,

Thx for the thx's but some pictures where taken by my wife Natascha. I had the theprivilegeto shoot the video.

Ray

mk1spitfire

Stunning Model.!!! Hope you can drop flares from the wing tips like the real one does in demonstations.

MaHo

How much is the all up weight? under 15kg for F4C [X(]

cool model.

regards Martin

*VNE*

Beautiful flying, and machine, Gerald.

but what I find most impressive is the work you did in fabricating the whole, model, engine, under cart,etc.....a real craftsman and grass roots engineer!!
You are inspirational........Awsome!!!!

Doug.

Bryce Watson

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Congratulations!

AndyAndrews

Nice!!!

I love the way that the gear go "Click" when they lock down. Very positive locking mechanism. Sweet work. Are you going to be in the JWM in Dayton this year?

Gerald Rutten

Hi Guys, model nearly complete for WM, lot of work went into it last year. Model has logged now 35 flights and still practising on daily basis.

Last week some nice get-together with the full size, here a link from the original demoteam site, very nice! [8D]
http://www.f16demoteam.nl/ Go to "Latest news" on the right.

Best regards,
Gerald

Moerig

Veels geluk, goeie werk...

argyris

Congrats Gerald!! Impressive as always ,By far one of the most scale F-16 ever!!

Gerald Rutten

Baie dankie, tnx!

Rgds,
Gerald

Gerald Rutten

As some college modellers always say, a scale-model is never finnished until you stop working on it ha ha ha.....

Still working on some minor details:

Wheel well inetrior:















Still some work on hydraulic lines, details and weathering etc.

Pitot tube and airdata probe


Cocpit nearly finnished:


Nosegear light":














....and we contineu.....

Best regards,
Gerald

Moerig

Gerald, Not to criticize but the DB25 connector on the dash is about 2% too big, it really does not look good
Hope you goldplated the pins otherwise its not milspec!

Stobe777

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Great work! A fabulous model, truly lots of effort leading to a superb result! I met the Demo Team in Turku Airshow recently- nice guys whose little Looky the Lion also met my MiG-21 bis...
http://www.f16demoteam.nl/pages/post...airshow-50.php
TP.

i3dm

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That was by far the most fun maiden flight i have ever seen !

Gerald Rutten

Hi Moerig; well.....thats all about compromise isn't it?

@TP; Very nice picture with the mig! The mechanics just arrived with their bus from Turku when the shoot was made. Initially the shoot was set a day sooner but the team couldn't make it.

@i3dm; well.....I must admid it was the sécond flight from maiden that day, the first movie was destroyed...... But I have lot of flying time on the Avonds F16 and they have similar flying characteristics other than that this larger one flies more stable and better low speed performance. Realy a joy to fly this model and I got relaxed with the bird pretty soon!

Best regards,
Gerald