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take a look at my new toy, this is a Simjet 2300AES, the airplane will be with me by the end of next week, a !!ROO!!

CARS II

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Way to go.... is this your first turbine project?

B.Regards, Enrique

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Carlos,
You got it ! ! ! Will you be roo'n by Fresno or Woodland/Daivs Oct 8-9 ? We Hotspotted Rudy yesterday and got his waiver signed. C G was right on[sm=spinnyeyes.gif]

John

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Quique
Yes, this will be my first turbine project, I have been flying D/F for the last 2 years and I'm done with that, so done that I sold 90% of my D/F stuff including the fan/engine/pipe combo that I was flying.

Can't wait to burn some kero.

Carlos R.

CARS II

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Hi John
Good thing for Rudy, very nice going John I'm sure he is very hoppy now :D :D, Yes man I got it, I couldn't wait for the 1200's , I'm going to get the Roo ready for Fresno but I will be Rooing for a test fly at woodland I hoppy you can be there to help me too.

I will see you on Friday.

Me now: :D

CARS II

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Carlos, I am sure that you will appreciate the ICDF to Turbine move...keep us informed on your progress.

Best regards, Enrique

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I sure learned a lot from the D/F, specially patience, I saw the Roo tonight and I think I'm getting a great deal, but since I don't have time to work on it this week I will pick it up 'till Friday.
A the moment I made a list with the help of a great friend of some of the things we need to get this project on the move and ready for Fresno, Yeah baby :) :)

Enrique I will keep you posted.

CARS II

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Hay Carlos,
How is my Roo doing??? I figured it would be easier for you to pick it up at Marks so I took it there Sat. for you. I found a new place to live today so the timing could not be better as the money from that will pay my move in costs:( Give me a call if you have any Q's.

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Just a shot of it for you. ;)

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This is my new Roo, yeap the one up there, a big thank you to you Mike, Hey man you did some nice work on it, I stopped by Mark's house to see it last Sunday, we made a list of the parts we are going to need to completed her and he is getting some of it and I'm getting the rest from Tam, the goal is to have it done before Fresno.
May be I'll get to see you on Friday, Friday is the pick up day.

Mike Thank you again for the good deal and don't forget, we get to fly her at W/D and did or are you going to take the deal from W/D to fly there for the rest of the year?

CARS II

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Carlos,
Congrats bud, its gonna be great to finally see you with a turbine. You been working your butt off in DF, and its time you made the switch..we will throw you a "deflowering" party at Fresno! See you then, and good luck with the Roo flights, Im sure you will do great!

Dave

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Thank you Dave
It has been a greate experience getting to this point, and so you know I also have learned a lot from you and Tam, Thank you.

I will see you in Fresno.


CARS II

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Cars II
The Roo looks great! Have you flown it yet?

Kevin

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Not yet Kevin, I'm picking her up this Friday and the work will start immediately to get her ready and test flown for the event at Fresno, so far so good, I have almost every thing now but the receiver.

CARS II

16 days 'till Fresno, will she be ready?

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OK.
It's 2:50 Saturday in the morning, I finally got some work done on the Roo, wife and kids are in bed and I had a good 3 hrs. of work done, Ailerons are glued and also the gorilla glue is inside the leading edge, inspected the landing gear, not much but it's a start. Tomorrow I'll try to get at least 6 hrs of work, that should move it forward.

CARS II

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Looking good, Carlos!

Give me a call if you need some help or advice ;)

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More pictures.

Take a look at how the gorilla glue expands when its drying, I added some in the leading edge 'cause I saw pictures before of delamination at that point, I was going to add glue to inside of the nose 'cause they used to delaminate there too but I notice that the factory added a strip of fiber glass at the join to prevent that from happening any more. Here is some of the cable clips that I'm going to use for my wire installation all came from radio shack.


CARS II

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The wings are done, I just need to make 2 new push rods with real hardware, I was missing an alignment brass tube so I just cut one out of a piano wire rod that I have, fits fine, the canopy is nearly done, it only needs a spring loaded locking pin and some paint to make it stand out from the rest of the body.

I put it all together and took two steps back to dream of what's to come, and...ho man, this thing is big, the wing spand is huge and my place been so small, it takes all the living room which is also my building area.

CARS II

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Looking good Cars II, Here is a pic of mine p-80 power, same color scheme.

avicom

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Avicome
Thank you for the pictures, good help, I will also be using the Gery miller tank and for what I can see in the picture I will not have any problems with the air brake horn, can you tell me how do you hold the wings to the fuse and you can post a picture of it showing the installation of the screw, I'm debating on how to do it.
Are your battery packs in the back compartment?, and how big are they?, how about flight time?. Oh man all these question.

Thank you.

Carlos R.

CARS II

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Cars II, for now I'm using a long 5mm ball end allen wrench. It's tedious inserting the wrench inside the wheels opening. My hand is not that big, but take me few minutes to catch the screws and titght them on. The better is to make an opening on the bottom of the fuse near the wing root when the bolt is. Look where is the screw and the ball link. That is the spot where to open the little channel. I still need to do it.

My battery packs are on the center of the pockets that the plane has. Look the pics. I made a access hatch for the batt. I am using tow 40000ma duralites one for ECU and one for RX. To secure the batterie hatch I install a blind nut in the underside of the turbine mounting block.

About flight time I am flying 7min about half throtle and still have more less half tank. If throtle is handle carefully you may get to the 10min flight. Hope this answer you questions.

BRGS,
Alejandro

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This one has the slot for the wing bolt on the wing panels. You can make like this or do the slots on the fuse as I told you in the previous post.

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Alejandro
Thank you for the pictures, very helpful, check out this site lov2flyrc.com, this is Todd's personal site ( from Dream Works ).
I got 1 week left for this project to be ready, will see.


CARS II

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Carlos-

Looking good! Keep up the great work!

Ready for some taxi tests on Sunday??

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Carlos, Thank you for the website. I'm allready making bussines with Todd, very nice guy. That's his old webpage the new one is dreamworksrc.com