DH VAMPIRE

That is looking very nice Pete, starting to get excited for test flight day

Yes Jon it looks really nice! even better in the flesh :woohoo:
Meeting you dad on friday to sort out the last few bit's and Bob's on the vampire .Hopefully if your dad get's his finger out we will have a maiden in march

March sounds good!

You need to get yourself to Cashmoor with the Panther so you can have a go with it as well

JonTappin wrote: March sounds good!

You need to get yourself to Cashmoor with the Panther so you can have a go with it as well

Jon,
I cant wait to fly the panther and pester you for some stick time
As soon as i can get this bloody house move under my belt i can focus on being a full time jet jock, but at least in the mean time the vampire is keeping me sane !!

Pete gave me a prod when he said

Meeting you dad on friday to sort out the last few bit's and Bob's on the vampire .Hopefully if your dad get's his finger out we will have a maiden in march

True to his word he turned up and here are some snaps of progress.

And a few more:






As you can see it's looking good but still lots to do, the main job for me being to produce a tank for at least 3 litres of fuel positioned not too far from the C of G and work out how much noseweight it's going to need and, with the Vampire having a very short nose, if there will be room for it. Thanks to Pete's great building and adaptation of the plans it weighs about 8.5 kg without the undercarriage and radio gear but with such a large wing area it should be a floater.

Just Wow!

Looks fantastic....gorgeous lines (the plane Pete). David, have you seen this awesome little box of tricks for intricate CG balancing/planning?
www.xicoy.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=365

As for fuel tank, is there any merit to seeing if a Derjet tank set would fit? They seem to provide installation space too.
Which UAT are you going for?

Dave B asks

is there any merit to seeing if a Derjet tank set would fit

I wondered that and bought a pair of Derjet Vampire tanks and the answer is no. This being a wooden model rather than composite like Derjet all the formers and stringers and the inlet manifold take up too much space. If you look closely at the picture of Pete framed by the booms you can see the redundant tanks on top of a cupboard (see clipping).



Anyone want to buy a couple of tanks?

Don't know how I missed them in that photo!
Oooh, does that mean we now get a thread on how to form your own fuel tanks?
Pink foam shaped followed by kevlar/glass/epoxy??

Surely you could have these done by the end of today?