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19 October 2010, 02:18 PM
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Dad's bought/built one of these...
K7 Bluebird model with Wrenn jet turbine
U-tube vids of other models, but basically the same model..
Starting up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bv4x...eature=related
80mph run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNBRa3oKit8
It's nuts... crashed it twice.... 2nd time resulting in it climbing a tree...
Has cost him £4k to date...
I wonder where I get my petrol head nature from...
U-tube vids of other models, but basically the same model..
Starting up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bv4x...eature=related
80mph run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNBRa3oKit8
It's nuts... crashed it twice.... 2nd time resulting in it climbing a tree...
Has cost him £4k to date...
I wonder where I get my petrol head nature from...
19 October 2010, 04:07 PM
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Please congratulate your dad on my behalf for such a successful build of a model that has come out so stable at high speed. The whole thing is very impressive. It is never easy to get a scale model to behave so well when it is well wound up.
Les
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wow thats awsome, what a toy!.
I filmed this at santa pod - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyEqDu-7hFg, when i watched them vids you linked my 1st thoughts were 'ohhhhhhh fireforce for the home!'
Fairplay to your dad, much more interesting than a train set
I filmed this at santa pod - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyEqDu-7hFg, when i watched them vids you linked my 1st thoughts were 'ohhhhhhh fireforce for the home!'
Fairplay to your dad, much more interesting than a train set
19 October 2010, 05:06 PM
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the noise is 99% of the fun... you just giggle like a school girl...
Cheers Les I'll pass it on.... he's spent many hours in the tool shed planing off trims and attaching spray guards (the biggest enemy with jet engined boats)
Cheers Les I'll pass it on.... he's spent many hours in the tool shed planing off trims and attaching spray guards (the biggest enemy with jet engined boats)
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Why the theatrics with the flames etc?
You dont see eurofighters sitting on the runways popping gouts of smoke and
flames out the back, they just accelerate and then light the afterburner.
Mart
You dont see eurofighters sitting on the runways popping gouts of smoke and
flames out the back, they just accelerate and then light the afterburner.
Mart
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It's actually slower at full power than at 50%...
The jet angle forces the nose down (true to the original design) so too much power actually digs it in more...the trick is to feather it up till she's planing, then throttle back and wow it just flies!
The jet angle forces the nose down (true to the original design) so too much power actually digs it in more...the trick is to feather it up till she's planing, then throttle back and wow it just flies!
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