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jclittle

01-08-2008 11:15 AM

GA Jet's Flying this past Sunday

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Nothing is better then a great day of flying and hanging out with new friends at GA Jets! Could not have asked for a better day, the weather was perfect! What a great facilty and group of people. Rex's Lightning, Doug's Eurosport, Ricks turbine converted Byron's BD-5J, Fred's Reaction and my Kingcat. Thanks to Mike for all the great photos and video!

G4guy

01-08-2008 11:17 AM

RE: GA Jet's Flying this past Sunday

OH, I hate you guys! Cold Damp and windy here in Pittsburgh last Sunday. I am ready to move south!
Ron

Mokken

01-08-2008 11:29 AM

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OH, I hate you guys! Cold Damp and windy here in Pittsburgh last Sunday. I am ready to move south!
Ron

We have our days here in Georgia, but flying year around is always an option. :)

rhklenke

01-08-2008 11:41 AM

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ORIGINAL: Mokken

We have our days here in Georgia, but flying year around is always an option. :)

Yep, same here in VA. We had a great day on Sunday - lots of guys out for our "postponed" New Year's day flyin. Light wind, sunny, temps in the high 60's. I test flew a buddy's Thunderbird Flash for him (twice). The first flight was VERY exciting. Turns out he had literally copied the expo. values from my Futaba TX to his JR TX. If you've never flown a plane with negative expo on a JR, DON'T DO IT - its not fun! :)

Took me 3 approaches to get it settled down enough to get it on the ground. The next flight with the expos in the right direction was MUCH better... [8D]

Bob

Bob_B

01-08-2008 12:49 PM

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Have any details on the BD-5J?? :)

jclittle

01-08-2008 01:25 PM

RE: GA Jet's Flying this past Sunday

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Perhaps Rick can chime in, but he told me its a Byron kit that he converted to turbine, a Jet Cat P80. It flew very nice, seems to me I saw it featured on the 2005 Super Jet South DVD published by Propwash http://www.propwashvideo.com/dbID/146.html; here is another photo. I hope to have a link to a nice video shot the same day by the weekend.

ETOPS

01-15-2008 08:43 PM

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The BD 5 was flown as ducted fan, it is now powered with a P 80@ 17# thrust, it weighs 21 dry. It is fun to fly and it takes a while to slow it down to land. I reinforced the bulkhead that the spar fittings attach too and moved the ele. and rudd. servos to the aft. there are more photos of the engine installation on RCU, ( search BD5J ). It is painted with PPG products. Thank You, Rick

afterburner

01-15-2008 08:53 PM

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ORIGINAL: Mokken

We have our days here in Georgia, but flying year around is always an option. :)

Hey Bob,
I suggest for all future maidens, bring some Depends with you. That was some great flying with lots of negative expo on a JR radio.

Marty

marcofly

12-16-2008 11:39 PM

RE: GA Jet's Flying this past Sunday

Hi There
I wonder if someone can help me i am looking to get in touch with ETOPS " The owner of the BD5J" Would love to ask him some questions on the BD5J conversion to turbine.
I did send a pm but no luck
can someone please help

Many thanks
marco
[email protected]

ETOPS

12-17-2008 05:41 PM

RE: GA Jet's Flying this past Sunday

Marco, Saw your post today and sent you a PM. ETOPS ( [email protected] )

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