what was your first jet
 

what was it?

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Ducted Fan or Turbine?

Ducted fan - god-awful Leicester Models (UK) F16 conversion. Looked vaguely like an F16 - crashed on first flight. I was gutted and hooked at the same time! Picco 45/Thorjet fan unit - there was so much vibration the carb kept falling out so we had to glue it in.

First turbine - Kangaroo with Simjet 1700 - flew well until it met it's demise on a dead stick landing - rolling between two rocks, the fuselage acted like a funnel for the rest of the model. Everything was destroyed apart from the engine!

So I bought another....

And then something else.....

etc. etc. etc.

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First DF was a Trim Spectre with OS .91/ Ramtec

First Turbine was F-9F Panther...
2nd. 3rd. and my 4th. ever turbine flight was going sooo well....[8D]

http://207.44.250.58/forum/upfiles/52487/Qo41396.jpg


Later that day....:(

http://207.44.250.58/forum/upfiles/52487/Zx70740.jpg


Then I bought a Fiberclassics (now C-ARF) Kangaroo. Had over 250 flights with it the first year.
Sold it a year ago to a friend. Still going strong!

http://207.44.250.58/forum/upfiles/52487/Mh21006.jpg

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My first DF was a Byron Mig 15. My first turbine is an Enforcer that I converted.

Staale,
Great scheme on your Kangaroo. How do you like my Enforcer?

Joe

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1st DF was a kitbashed Berkley f-8 Crusader with .049 Midwest fan unit, Still have it. Next up was a series of Byron F-16s, starting with a Fox Eagle .60, Rossi .81, then OS .91 etc.......................

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Mine was a byron F-86 ducted fan. my first flight the tuned pipe came off and went into the fan and out the cheater hole[:@]. The engine was still running but the fan blade had disengaged, the RPM's increased and without knowing I had a deadstick. Very memorable. [sm=lol.gif]

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my first turbine was a facet 2300, the very same one you see in all the magazine pics


mark

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Facet 2300, easy to build-great to fly!
Jon

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My first ducted fan was a Byron f-16, with a rossi which I could hardly ever get to run. It was almost a relief when my van was broken into and the jet was stolen at the motel I was staying at for the Denver jet rally, LOL.
First turbine plane was a Jet Model Products StarfireIIC with AMT Mercury, Sadly I killed it on its maiden voyage by inadvertently switching the turbine off when I was trying to go to low rate on ailerons. 8-(

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"1st DF was a kitbashed Berkley f-8 Crusader with .049 Midwest fan unit, Still have it. "

Any pics you can post?

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SM F-15. Have over 100 flights on it now

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I had a House of Balsa F-86 ducted fan. RK-20b fan with OS .25 VFDF. Sorry no pics of this one that I can find.

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First DF: PMP Gripen/OS91/Ramtec/PMP pipe/Spring Airs
First Turbine: FC Kangaroo/SimJet 85/Same Spring Airs

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my first jet ( blue ) kj 66 - no plans

my second ( yellow ) fte 500 - no plans

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First DF was a Byron Mig 15

First turbine model I owned was a CAI Raptor with an AMT 280 ; when I realized that the "it's a perfect trainer model" claims I'd gotten from Scotty Bolduc were hot air, I put it aside for a while and bought a Bobcat & RAM 500 as the first turbine that I actually flew.

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My first DF was a BVM F-16/Viofan/BVM .91. I had expected for it to be a not so good first time jet, but It really wasn't. Pretty flyable.

My first turbine was/is a BVM Mav-pro SJ1200. It is/was underpowered and kinda of a pig. I only got to fly it for 2-3 minutes total unitl it flamed out and my coach put her in. Don't know if I will fix her.

I'm planning on buying another DF to get my waiver, that way me and only me will get to fly my jet.[:o]

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Hello:

My first ducted-fan jet was an Rafale A, own desing. O.S. VRDF, Ramtec fan, minipipe Weston UK. Robart.

My first turbine jet was a HotSpot, Simjet 2300AES GS, Eurokit gears.


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1st ducted fans were a BVM f-16 and a George Miller t-38

1st turbines were a Roo and Cermark MB339


Wojtek

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First DF was a Byron F-86, My First Turbine was a Eurosport. Fun Fun Airplane ;-)

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I guess my first ducted fan was a little semi scale F-16 that I built years ago from magazine plans as a kid with a RK-049 in it. Then various EDF's through the years........................

and finally a gas ducted fan BVM Maverick and then a RAM 1000 Euro Firebird..........................man how time flies.[:o]

Bryce

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First DF was House of Balsa F-86 with K&B 7.5. Then JHH F-86 and A-4. Then only props for 15 years or so then back to Turbines with a T-33. Scott

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My first Ducted-Fan was a Byron Mig 15 with a Rossi .81 / Byron Fan
then on to a Yellow A-4 scale wing OS77 and Dyanmax
from then on all BVM, F86, Aggressor II, Mav and Mav Pro

First turbine was a BobCat with a RAM 500 now has 250+ flights
and this year a new Bob Cat- C with a FTE 750

And yes there are US female pilots

Dawn

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I will try to get it out of the back yard shed tomorrow and take a picture......................If I don't forget. Ha Ha OTD

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Byron Mig 15 DF then F-16, took a break for many years and got a BVM F-16, T-33, F-86 when I got back into DF and got a conversion of the T-33 for JPX when they came out ;but flew a Roo with Ram 750F for the first turbine plane

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Byron A-4 with a .77. I originally bought it used from a guy and it was a heavy pig it would barely get off the ground. (hard lesson learned) Was retired after the second flight. Had a Parkinson Barracuda that was an excellent plane too.
First turbine was a Roo with PST 600 which was removed after the second flight and a TJT 3000 put on instead. :)