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[quote]ORIGINAL: eletrick

Yeah yeah, Yawn Yawn Yawn.

$300.00, and if the kit is missing a bolt...nut.....screw...... (canopy, gear doors....
instructions......ect ect ect), the hobby shop will keep it for you.

If its complete, it will be posted right here!

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If you realized how many hundreds, no thousands, of hours went into the development of this aircraft then you would realize how much of an insult your offer is. I will find someone who is willing to work with me in the first place, instead of complaining about something that can easily be changed. You know damn well that if the kit arrives with all the improvements and is complete that it is worth way more than that, especially if the hinges are done for you. I would think there are plenty of turbine experts out there who would offer at least $600 if they see it at a hobby shop and are satisfied with the quality and content, especially since so much of the work is already done for them.

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Wait hinges, NO NO NO, leave them out.

Turbine, out of the question, think hot nitro prop version.

300.00 going going..............

Is it true that the new version has pubisol reinforced bulkheads?
Will it fly good with a P300?

Partially true. But if you want the kind of performance that Tracy originally designed the Publar (Trademark copyrighted by Jenson Advanced Composite Industries) Composite airframe for, you will require a Jetcat 4200. Remember guys: this airframe was always intended to be exo-atmospheric capable. You need the pubes on the belly for ablative protection on re-entry!!!!

I'm just a regular Member, Tracy is a "certified member" or as we say here in
the swamp, he is actually "certifiable". Man funny times, looking back at the
post on this thread long ago, it was some funny stuff!

But Richard's Tracy ribbing drove him over the edge. That was when Tracy cracked and went nuts and stole that airplane. Too many Publar Composite fumes!!!!

He was gonna fly it to Heffs place or to Johns personal air strip........

Perhaps. But if you will recall, he tried to fill the plane with some of the, well, let's say heftier Playboy Playmates and he was WAY over gross max take off weight!!!!

You lost me, he stole a plane, and if he had heffers with him, why not steal a C130 ?

He chose not to. Remember: it was in the news. He stole a Cessna or some comparable single engine general aviation airframe up in the Seattle area. Got caught, went to jail. All because we ribbed him mercilessly. I used to feel a bit bad about it, but Tracy did a lot of this to himself.

Next time a C-5B would work best for those BIG women!!!

Last I heard FEJ bought the rights to Publar.

OK, I started re-reading some of this thread. I was actually trying to find Wojtek's post with the YouTube video of him actually laying up a Publar Composite. It was perhaps the absolute funniest thing I have ever seen a fellow hominid do. Anyone have a link to it??? PLEASE!!!

But I only made it to page 7. Had I gone further, I was afraid that I could rupture an internal organ from severe laughter. You guys, seriously. This thread is worth a re-read all the way from the start. Nothing in the human experience can compare.

Some of the best are as follows (and this is only from a guy that made it to page 7!!!): Posts 116, 119 (this is where Tracy promised us all a ride someday in the Playboy Jet. Where the hell is my ride???), 126, 157, 163, 167.

This is a thread that should be stickied in the forum. One of the absolute best threads on RCU ever!!!!

WHOAA ZOMBIE THREAD ALERT

Anyone got a clip of a flying Glascat turbine version of course?

I will let this run for the moment but it will be shut down and a stake driven though it's prepreg heart the moment it gets out of hand.

Ok, guys, it was a hair from one of my bikini-clad (female, in case you want to make a joke about it) assistant's HEAD. There is curly HEAD hair too. Hi to all you guys I haven't communicated with in a LONG time. Hope all is well with all of you. Since that thread my Dad and older brother have passed away, so I am helping my 75 year old mother with alot of things she can't do on her own. The 165 of us Air Traffic Controllers who were cheated out of an average of $9,000 per year (myself being one of the "most cheated" ones, out of $20,700 per year), by an illegal FAA/Union agreement that applied a rule from the new pay system to us while we were still under the old GS pay system have finally won our lawsuit.

We were delayed in moving to higher-level facilities by 14-months due to our Union's whistleblower disclosure to the Cleveland Federal Court that the FAA was illegally conducting the program to contract out the towers at small airports without complying with an OMB regulation to do a cost analysis, and when I finally moved to the Boeing Field FAA tower in Seattle my pay was put at $20,700 per year LESS than it would have been put at if I had moved on time, compared with other IDENTICAL employees who had their pay set correctly, and the FAA deceived the Union President into agreeing with it. He later admitted, after he was no longer Union President, that he didn't realize the agreement would cause disparate treatment of identical employees (he should have known, as it was only applied to the controllers in the fourth year of the four-year program to contract out the towers) and called it an "administrative error", however, subsequent Union Presidents and FAA management refused to correct the error.

They are paying me, for the 4.6 years I worked at the wrong level of pay (including the 14-month delay), before resigning to access my retirement fund as the only way to pay for legal action for me and my fellow employees, $160,000 (before deductions), and since my resignation was "constructive discharge", same as wrongful termination, they have to pay me the last ten years of salary at an average of $118,000 per year, plus interest, and I get the job back at $140,000 per year. When it is put into the OPM "Back Pay and Interest" computer program, which calculates the difference between actual pay and pay that should have been given, plus interest, it spits out $1.6 million, before deductions (interest over the last 14.6 years, compounded daily, at an average of 4.5% per year). 15 of the controllers have agreed, in writing, to pay me 7% of their back pay, as I am the one who took action (many were not even aware they were cheated), which will gain me another approximately $100,000 because it has taken so long to get corrected, and if the other 149 voluntarily give me 7%, that will be another $400,000 (if it weren't for me, they would receive NOTHING). Because of me, the Office of Management and Budget is issuing a Directive to all Federal Agencies that ONLY Human Resources can make a PAY agreement with a Union (in our case NOT the Air Traffic Division).

The beauty of it is, that since it caused an incorrect distribution of $200 million among ex-GS Air Traffic Controllers who have worked since before October, 1998 (when the pay system changed and the three-year distribution of the $200 million began), it can be corrected WITHOUT COST to the FAA (taxpayers) by making a tiny adjustment over a ONE YEAR period that will only affect the illegally overpaid controllers by $16 per paycheck (who are now averaging $90,000 per year) for the one year, and in the case of a retiree (with cooperation by OPM retirement payments personnel) by a MAXIMUM of $35 per MONTH for the one year, if he or she JUST retired, say, last month.

The "Glascat" has evolved into the "StarJet", with inverted "V" tail, and I will attach a photo in "Microsoft Jet" paint scheme (the jet model spent 6 weeks at Bill Gates' house). The Budweiser brewing company is paying to have a full-size "Bud Lite Jet" mockup at the Oshkosh airshow this end of July, with it being painted by a good friend of mine here in North Idaho who is one of the best airbrushers in the country (coincidentally, his uncle used to paint the "Miss Budweiser hydroplane), so we can attract investors and future customers. There is most likely going to be a "Bud Lite" commercial in the next few months, and for sure at the next Superbowl, with the "Bud Lite Jet", with Tom Cruise as the "Budman" pilot, and Chevy Chase reprising his role as the goofy jet mechanic from the movie "Fletch" (Tom Cruise will say, "Did you fill her tanks with Bud Lite?", to which Chevy replies in the goofy voice (with thumbs up), "Yeah, she loves the stuff!". Then, when the voice on the radio comes on with Tom being asked how long it will be until he drops the beer from the airplane (with parachutes, of course) over the bar that needed it in an emergency, lest the "bikers" tear the place apart, he says, "Budman is supersonic, I'll be there in 30 seconds" (from "Top Gun"). Then, they will announce a contest, "You could win a ride in the Bud Lite Jet". Remember when Coors had the little BD-5 "Silver Bullet" jet that flew at airshows? Budweiser will do the same thing with the "Bud Lite Jet". There will be a couple slight differences from the photo, the actual full-size jet will have "winglets", and a two-seat bubble canopy, similar to the F-16, instead of the back of the canopy smoothly flowing to the jet exhaust as on the model. I think that will look better. The nose section will also be more "needle-like" as on the French Rafale. The tailbooms will also be a little slimmer vertically. Don't even think about stealing the design, as it is copywrited with a design patent. LOL.
It may come out on the market as an R/C with turbine power, but that is, of course, on the back burner, unless one of you want to do a development contract with me.

I did not "steal" the Cessna 172. I had permission to have it, and due to a misunderstanding had it for about 6 hours instead of the 2 hours they thought I would have it. As soon as I called my mom on the phone from the Sandpoint, Idaho, airport and found out they were looking for me, I immediately brought it back (it was north Idaho, not Seattle). When the FAA inspector came up to me, and the police were there because they thought I might have stolen it, he asked me what was going on, and I told him that I had to resign to access my retirement fund as the only way to pay for the lawsuit against the FAA and hadn't been able to get rehired since, and that because of severe sleep problems for two years in not being able to be rehired (even though a Federal employee has the RIGHT to replace a retirement as a retirement frees up wage money) I "thought about jumping out of the airplane", to which he replied, "If you rented the airplane for the PURPOSE of committing suicide, that's grand theft". He is just an FAA Inspector, not an attorney or prosecutor, so he had no business saying that, and that is the only reason the police arrested me. If the Inspector had not been there or he hadn't said that (which he was wrong about, as I didn't rent it for that purpose, I told him I just "thought about it"), I would not have been arrested. But, of course, the 9/11 attack made everyone paranoid.

Huh? This thread needs to be preserved for all eternity and added to for hundreds of years. We owe it to the family of Man!!! And any aliens that discover it in the future.

If it wasn't shut down in the heat of the fiction novel it was years ago what could possibly cause it to be shut down now?
This thread is classic, shutting it down would be a travesty.

Exactly!! What has changed to make this a shut-down thread??? Well Mod?

I remember seeing black and white pics of this thing years ago in a mag, it was a godd looking plane, but the owner was wacked out the one and only time i spoke to him about purchasing one..

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ORIGINAL: pilotdude57

The canopy you received was made by an associate who doesn't have much fiberglass experience and he is long gone. The hair was not a pubic hair, but from somebodies head, probably someone observing the layup process. Also, keep in mind that the aircraft provided for you was for flight testing purposes as a turbine prototype and was NOT production kit quality. The inside of a prototype for testing can be very different than the finished product for sale.
Also, when I got the aircraft back from you I couldn't believe how the hinges on the rudders and flaps were done. Whoever did the hinges on the rudders and hinges on the flaps didn't know what they were doing. The hinges on the rudder were mounted parallel to the ground, instead of 90 degrees to the hinge line. All hinges have to share a common line through the hinge point, or they will bind at max movement. In other words Robart hinges have to be 90 degrees to the leading edge of the control surface. There were holes in the flaps and the wing just ahead of the flaps for the large Robart hinges to go into. The holes were predrilled at the proper angle. The hinges on an airfoil shaped flap can be mounted in a ''V'' shape so the hinge line is BELOW the wing. Take a look at the Robart hinge package. And I don't understand why you did such a huge mounting for the turbine, it isn't that way on a Bobcat or Kingcat. And the person who made the comment about it's weight evidently didn't pick it up. For the size of aircraft it is VERY light, due to the lightweight prepreg and honeycomb core.
Also, just to make sure you guys know who you are ribbing, my high school buddy was married to Playboy's Miss November, 1983, Veronica Gamba, and she has shown my ''StarJet'' design to Hugh Hefner. I just got a call this morning from Rob Hilburger of Playboy and they are VERY interested in developing the full-size aircraft as the ''Playboy Jet'' to fly at airshows with the bunny on the tail. Since I have all full scale pilot ratings I would fly the Playmates around to the airshows so they can sign autographs, sell merchandise, etc. They will probably have a contest to win a ride in the Playboy Jet. It will be capable of 350 MPH and usually fly at 25,000 feet. I'm sure the Playmate and I will have to spend some nights at hotels on our way to the next airshow city. We will also sell full-size kits. For about $350,000 you can have your own Playboy Jet. I will E-mail photos of the StarJet to anyone who asks. I will hire several people to still produce the R/C kits. I'll let you know how the parties go at the Playboy mansion. Now, does anyone want to reserve a model kit of the StarJet? Hope to see ya at the full-size airshows. Richard, I promise you a flight in the full scale bird and a special autograph from a Playmate. Ready to pull some G's? Just don't puke in my Playboy StarJet.

A quick refresher.

Pictures of the StarJet have never been in a magazine.

Oh my! I think Matt said it best: "it washes over you"

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ORIGINAL: Woketman

OK, I started re-reading some of this thread. I was actually trying to find Wojtek's post with the YouTube video of him actually laying up a Publar Composite. It was perhaps the absolute funniest thing I have ever seen a fellow hominid do. Anyone have a link to it??? PLEASE!!!

But I only made it to page 7. Had I gone further, I was afraid that I could rupture an internal organ from severe laughter. You guys, seriously. This thread is worth a re-read all the way from the start. Nothing in the human experience can compare.

Some of the best are as follows (and this is only from a guy that made it to page 7!!!): Posts 116, 119 (this is where Tracy promised us all a ride someday in the Playboy Jet. Where the hell is my ride???), 126, 157, 163, 167.

wow !! this if from the good-ole-days of RCU !! haha ... As for the video, its long gone .. I don't even have a copy of it .. that may be a good thing :D:D lol but I have heard that FEJ had tried to incorporate the Pubelar™ with their honeycomb , however the Chinese harvested material did not have adequate structural properties. Development continues on proper use ( and harvesting ) of the honeycomb technologies however ..

Hidden camera video from the factory ..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P10nD1cIV4[/youtube]

~V~ :D:D:D

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ORIGINAL: Woketman

Oh my! I think Matt said it best: ''it washes over you''

The bummer is he posted on THIS thread twice yesterday....where are those posts!

http://www.rcuniverse.com/community/...1&memid=215969