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Offline mike londke

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Blackhawk Mosquito
« on: March 03, 2013, 05:35:12 PM »
Video from last summer   
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Re: Blackhawk Mosquito
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2013, 05:45:04 PM »
Cool video Mike! She flew pretty good on one engine at the end, which one shut off first?
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Re: Blackhawk Mosquito
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2013, 06:01:08 PM »
Inboard quit first. This flight was after a repair. On the 2nd flight of this model the outboard nacelle with part of the wing and engine and tank attached broke! Engine wide open with a full tank! That part took off under power and went about 150ft and crashed in some trees. The rest of the airplane flew quite nicely with one engine and half a wing til it ran out of gas. No one injured thankfully. I beefed up the nacelles with some 1/4' basswood and haven't had any trouble with it since. I should have done that to begin with but i just followed the plans.
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Re: Blackhawk Mosquito
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2013, 10:08:16 AM »
How about a photo of the plane? All we see is a blur. Mind you, a very good performing blur! Sounds great too.  What engines and props?  ::)
Think S.M.A.L.L. y'all and, it's all good, CL, FF and RC!

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Re: Blackhawk Mosquito
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2013, 10:53:09 AM »
Yes, I'm interested in the engines, too.

I put a couple of mismatched Black Widow mutts on my XF5F Skyrocket.  The outboard ran longer but it didn't hurt anything.  Mindful of the engine's desire to go their own ways, I provided quite a bit of extra beef during assembly.

The wood plank was an alignment fixture to get the engines going the same way.  I couldn't find a finished picture.


 
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Re: Blackhawk Mosquito
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2013, 12:51:27 PM »
Norvel .061's, Cox 5x3 safety props, Sig champion %25. 23krpm's. 42ft lines.
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Re: Blackhawk Mosquito
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2013, 07:39:56 PM »
Thank for the pix! Cool model and one that I didn't know Blackhawk made.
Think S.M.A.L.L. y'all and, it's all good, CL, FF and RC!

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