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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Paul Taylor on June 16, 2006, 02:26:46 PM
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Is this control Line or R/C?
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it's a Mig-15 Control line plane made out of aluminium. It has a small pulse-jet for power. A least that's what I've been told.
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Who cares about the plane, check out the Christmas tree. :D Dont see those down here in the South.
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Elwyn is correct. Dan flew it on Monday. NOISY.
Dan is in first place after one round of expert.
Sam
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Dan's Mig uses a small OS pulse jet. Smaller than a dynajet. The plane is made from a "kit" that was more a hint than a collection of usable pieces. All major pieces are aluminium. Dan made the wings and stabilizer, designed and executed the control system, devised a way to mount the engine. The fuse may have been usable, I'll check. He devised the controller for the elevator from socket head bolts that key into a ball wrench ends. This allows for the dihedral in the elevator. The engines are very touchy, hyper mixture sensitive and fuel sensitive. More work will be done plumbing the tank. Longest powered flight was 5 laps under power. Fun scale requires a minimum of 10 powered laps, so the plane did not compete. Bob Wilke (not sure of the spelling) helped in sorting the jet engine. More work will be done. The flight of the Mig is an event. A long roll out on the ground as it gets up to speed and fast laps estimated at about 80 mile an hour. The sound of the engine is an attention getter.
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Dan might find that the motor runs better on glow fuel. I ran mine in Korea on K&B500 and it ran excellently even has a nice flame comming out the tailpipe to wow the crowd. Fuel consumption is high though.
Dennis
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the C/L sport jet speed dynajets use a mix of methonal and proploene oxide or methonal and nitro.
Thomas Wilk