Airworld Hawk 1:4.5

Getting there with final retract plumbing. X3 large volume tanks for retracts and x3 medium for brakes/airbrake. Only set back to multiple tanks is the additional weight when they're filled up. In the same mentality, I will only be half charging my flight packs for the same reason....


Finally found the right nose light too..

Nice work Dave really looking forward to seeing this bird in the flesh :S

That picture of all Dave's air tanks! He reports that he's

Getting there with final retract plumbing

The sight of all that plumbing and opportunity for air leaks makes me even more relieved that I decided to go fully electric with the Vampire undercarriage - both for brakes and retract mechanism. If it wasn't for the fact that I'll still need an air pump for my Boomerang's old fashioned Spring Airs I could have used it for noseweight in the Vampire, it'll be needing something about as heavy as that with it's battery!

So, after a little flak at the weekend for the time it's taking to get this finished and flown.....I'm back on it. Since my last progress on this thread we have moved house so a reasonable excuse (just not so for the previous year!) anyway.... I cannot figure out what my plan was for the plumbing of all air lines so I'm back to head scratching and tracing each line...should have it sorted soon, then onto turbine install.
It can be my only aero focus as I have no further room to work in!

Anybody else have progress being made on new turbine projects? (Hints dropped)

So all ready by Classic Jets on Friday week then Dave?

BTW, I'm impervious to dropped hints, I've had lots of practice over the last three years.

If I didn't faff.....but I like to faff! - thanks for your email. I like the ready2fly venom and yak130.... Distributors or finding somewhere in stock is a task!

Dave, suggestion 1: Simplify the air system by using one large reservoir - I have a soda-stream drinks maker and the CO2 canister is a really decent size and thickness to weight!
Faff''ing is part of the jet scene dude - I have spent at least 100 hours f'ing with steerable retracts over the last couple of months- and I love it (sad git).

Me too! perhaps not 100 hours trying to trace that elusive air leak in my Boomerang's undercarriage, but it certainly feels like it. Sad to think that when I've converted the gear to electric I will have robbed myself of faffology having already removed the other opportunity to faff by converting the turbine to kero start.

DavidTappin wrote: So all ready by Classic Jets on Friday week then Dave?

:silly:

Wonder if I can swap my day off.... Are you going?

Re Classic Jets on July 1st, Dave Bright said

Wonder if I can swap my day off.... Are you going?

Pete and Sue will be going, I was going to give it a miss due to other pressures but if you decide to go I might be able to change things around and join you - but I'll need to be back home by 4 at the latest. A quick decision is needed, without the cost going up quite a bit last entry has to be in by next Tuesday.

Text or call me if you are able to do the swap. Anyone else interested? If Dave and I do go there will be two empty seats coming too.

David