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A buddy of mine decided to do some changes to a Bob Cat and see how his design would work. He came out with an inverted Vtail which he has a patent on. He plans to come out with a new design which will hopefully be out some time this year. Sorry no picture of that one just yet. He is working on getting the molds done and getting a manufacture to produce them.
After a few weeks of finishing the install of the engine and some other testing we decided to test fly the jet here in good old Palm Bay.
The plane flew very well and extremely stable we were all happy with the test flight and we should have it flying at some of the upcoming jet meets here in Florida.:D

The following link is for the video of the test flight. The other link is for my Buddy's website which tells you more about the advantages of the inverted vtail.
The video of the bobcat say prototype jet called the Bob Cat My friend who did the video is not into jets and didn't know that the prototype part was the tail that we used on the plane and not the actual Bob Cat[&:]. Thanks
http://media.putfile.com/Modified-Bob-Cat
http://www.invertedvtail.com/

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Good deal Jose,

I have some pics I want to send over, please let me know if they arrived OK?

cg

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Hows the knifedge flight???

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From the sideline it looked good (second flight one pass), Jose (the pilot) has a better perspective and as we move the cg aft just a bit, it will only get better.

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Hows the knifedge flight???

I only attempted one knifeedge pass on the second flight it was ok, but I was only at half throttle. To be honest that was one of my concerns as well about the inverted vtail, but it handled it just fine. It also was very stable and handled the very high speeds really nice. 22lbs of thrust is a nice thing to have on that plane more than enough power:D.

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Here are some more pics.

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Hey Jose got to watch you guys up in Palm Bay doing jet modification and stuff :D. Some day me and the guys will come for a day of hard core flying[>:]. Say hello to the family for me

Basil