Looks great! Good luck on the maiden.This plane was built by my son, of course with my help, and he is going to fly with it tomorrow.
Looks great! Good luck on the maiden.This plane was built by my son, of course with my help, and he is going to fly with it tomorrow.
Musics is a bit disturbing. Unless it wasn't music and you where just stood next to some empty bottles, in a bottle bank and the wind was blowing over them ?
I was talking about the long EZ when I said I'll probably own one sometime. The Berkut looks cool but they're too hard to get, and twice as expensive.@Crawford Bros. Aeroplanes Why do you want a beergut? Just build a long ez and hang a huge motor on it.. lot of stuff that's easier to build that has more utility, even (shudder) a harmon rocket /derivative. Or a re-engined Maule, or even more horrific, something purpose designed in Eastern Europe.
EDFs are expensive and I've got a U-2 to finish. You can build the SU-47.The FT LongEZ really doesn't do the design justice. It just doesn't look right without a tapering nose and the nice long wings. But what about doing an actual Berkut?
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Pusher/prop in slot?I was talking about the long EZ when I said I'll probably own one sometime. The Berkut looks cool but they're too hard to get, and twice as expensive.
EDFs are expensive and I've got a U-2 to finish. You can build the SU-47.
Can I? That’s my next projectI was talking about the long EZ when I said I'll probably own one sometime. The Berkut looks cool but they're too hard to get, and twice as expensive.
EDFs are expensive and I've got a U-2 to finish. You can build the SU-47.
Mighty Mini-size to match the FT-22?Pusher/prop in slot?
Even if I was building it I wouldn't mind, go for it.Can I? That’s my next project
I have more. But I will totally make a 70mm Twin Beirut.Even if I was building it I wouldn't mind, go for it.
In all seriousness I have something like 2 unfinished planes, a boat, and 3 more ideas that I need to finish before anything else. One of them is a Long EZ, then I've got the U-2 and probably something else lying around that I can't remember, then I've had plans for a PT-19 and a Mossie that I haven't even started yet.
I'm thinking I might try and start on a Long EZ today since I can probably knock it out in a few hours at the most.
I think the basic layout of a Vector would work. Just move the canards back, lower and shorten the nose, and add the h-stabs to the back. I think I'll put that on my list for after I finish my current Vector-based design.Mighty Mini-size to match the FT-22?
Sounds like a productive day in my standardsI didn't fly again today, the weather has been really lately constant rain, plus I overslept. So wasted half the day in bed the other half drinking and playing catch up on my Scout project and messing with a nitro car.
It would have been productive if I had finished doing what I planned to do today.Sounds like a productive day in my standards
Can you show a clear picture of the damaged parts of the crankshaft? If the connecting part of the crankshaft to the connecting rod is cut, the part can be repaired by making the pin.Engine decided to cease producing horsepower on climbout... I tried to circle back around and almost made the runway but had to dump it in the grass. No damage to the airframe other than a cracked wing peg but looks can be deceiving...
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Initially I thought the engine died because it either ran out of fuel or went lean and detonated, but no, the reality is much worse...
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Yeah anyone see the issue here? I think not having a physical connection between the crankshaft and piston would slow you down a bit. The conrod left a nice dent on the inside of the case and did a number on the backplate too. At least it looks like it happened on the downstroke which saved the valves from getting utterly destroyed if the piston was going the other way.
I have honestly no idea what I did to cause this or if I even did anything to. Running 500 rich of peak, always what I do for 4 cycles, so it had plenty of oil. I've heard of Saitos doing this occasionally but that's because for a while they had hollow stamped-in crankpins. Here the crankpin and crankshaft are all machined as one. Maybe some kinda microscopic metallurgical defect? I've got no clue...
So I guess for now I'm on the hunt for a crankshaft for an OS 52 Surpass.