BVM MAVERICK
 

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THIS CLASSIC JET?
HAS THE MOLDS AND KIT PARTS JUST BECOME PART OF MODELLING HISTORY?
WITH ALL THIS READY BUILT GEAR AROUND AND AVALIABLE - WHY DONT WE SEE A ARTF VERSION AT A RETAIL OF £500![:-]

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Sort of old now. Horrible wing section and was pretty much replaced by the Classic bandit which is ten times the plane.

The moulds are in BVM's atic and I guess thats where they are staying now the Electra turbine is here.

Jason

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i wish i had the molds for it....i love that plane and wish i never sold mine. being my first jet it holds high with me.


....mike

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If you guys ever need a set of fuel tanks for the turbine conversion please let me know.

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I had a p-60 and a turbine conversion -THIS MACHINE flew superbly and with the tip tanks fitted it was extremly pretty in the air.
what a shame [&o]

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I just bought a NIB Maverick kit with the Jett Tec turbine conversion, got a P-60 for it. Then they come out with the Electra Turbine kit, now I want one of those!:D
Tom

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Horrible wing section ?? Please explain ?

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How much for the tanks? What is the capacity?
-SK

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yeh sure, the deepest part of the wing was really far back (like 50% cord) which to me, made it not particularly nice to fly at slow speeds with no flaps (which most never had). Also the lack of washout didn't help either. In fact didn't BVM vac form some leading edge droops to tame this wild beast? I think they did. As far as I see it, each BVM sport jets is a improvement on its predecessor and the Maverick is now a 20+ year old design and things have moved a long way on since.

jason

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mine dead sticked on me one time and the glide factor set in on a long distance pass. never had any problems with tip stall or controlability. now that doesnt mean i made the runway:D but it never had any bad habits at extreamly low speeds. but your rite the newer the bvm sport jets get the better they fly.

...mike

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Mike

I see you have flaps on yours and they would have helped no end. Mine never had flaps and was a tippy pig on dead stick or slow landings. Good for the reactions though;)



jason

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That's because his is the "Pro" The Maverick had split flaps. At least mine did I had one of each. My regular Mav had split flaps which I sealed permantly closed and had the leading edge droops. Both were great flyers. I sold them both to move up to the Bobcat.

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I guess I only flew them with flaps. I found it to have a very tame and predictable stall, much MUCH slower and tamer than my Ultra Viper. The wing leading edge droops made the Mav basically stall proof, well, it would stall but it was impossible to make it drop a wing tip. I tend to think you had yours balanced too far aft or just had too much elevator and tried to fly it too slow ( too high of an angle of attach). Or was yours perhaps way on the heavy side ? I thought ALL Mavericks called for flaps ? The regular Mavericks had the split flaps and the Mav Pro's had comventional type flaps.

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$75.............I think it is 60oz, they are made by JetTech. I purchased a Mav kit but after seeing the contents I got scared and sold it.

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Often wondered what worked better. The split or conventional flaps?

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all i know is wish i had my old mavpro. fly all day from a 300 foot runway and still have room to land.

...mike

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BVM sold what maybe 300 of these tipy pigs ? Just think how many he would have sold if they flew worth a damn ?

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I got a set of BVM leading edge droops new never opened if anyone interrested.

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It still flew well just that the landings were intresting without flaps and washout.


J

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again...i liked mine with conventional flaps just fine. balance was good and only 14lbs wet. that was my first jet and served me well with 360 flights and over 11 years old.


...mike

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You guys dissing the Maverics and Mav Pros are SMOKING CRACK!!!! That, in my opinion was the best damn "pre turbine" plane ever built. I still have my Mav Pro and fly it still with a 91 (the 96 wore out). I too wish Bobby would re-introduce the plane or sell the molds. A friend of mine has two NIB, seems he is stock piling.
Anyway, my 5 cent worth.

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take 2 for my bandit, i love that jet. i like the winston scheme on the pro looks good.

...mike

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I have to agree, I love my Maverick. 165 Ducted Fan flights, and now 118 Turbine flights after it's conversion. It was a great Jet to prep for turbines and now is a great warm up Jet before flying it's faster big brother Bandit's.

I put the leading edge droops on after a huge scare on it's third flight, and that seems to have cured the snap tendency. It had stock split flaps as a DF but I changed them over to larger Bandit style flaps when I converted it, just in case I needed more drag to overcome residual thrust from the turbine.

I have given it more than it's fair share of abuse over the years and I have to say it has held up extrememly well. Tough little Jet.

Maybe BVM wasn't happy with it but I sure am!!

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Who said BVM wasnt happy with it ? The guy from England was critcal of the airfoil which in my opnion is ridiculous. This is one of the easiest and best flying DF jets EVER. They make a great Turbine powered model as well but the wing loading does get a little high.

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WNTOFLY- Did you ever notice any blanking of the elevators with your flaps deployed that far? I thought I ran into that the first couple of flights so I moved them back a bit. Scott