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Title: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: peabody on December 04, 2016, 01:28:23 PM
Mighty nice.....I think a tuna pipe 75?
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: gene poremba on December 04, 2016, 01:40:04 PM
That's a beautiful looking plane. Can you tell us more about it?.....Gene
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach on December 04, 2016, 03:07:01 PM
That's incredible....really stunning!  Kuddos to him. H^^
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: Dan McEntee on December 04, 2016, 03:51:57 PM
   It's modeled after Wayne Handley's Turbo Raven custom built air show aerobatic airplane. WAY crazy power to weight ratio. It could take off in a few feet, pull a big loop, reverse pitch on the prop and land and stop at the same place he took off from. I got to see him fly it at the Reno races in 1999. A few weeks or manths after that, he had a prop control failure on the down hill side of a similar maneuver and pancaked the airplane. The compression injury he suffered from the impact and resulting surgeries left him several inches shorter than he was previously. His act was completely indescribable and had to be seen to be believed. This model is a very nice representation of the full scale airplane.
   Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: wwwarbird on December 04, 2016, 04:14:52 PM

 Very cool model, looks great. Who is "Young Daniel"?
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Post by: kenneth cook on December 04, 2016, 04:48:07 PM
                      Young Daniel, aka Dan Banjock. I have watched this plane morph from a picture on the cover of a magazine he had and then a sketch and completion. There's just a lot of work that went into the plane. Ken
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Post by: dennis lipsett on December 04, 2016, 04:53:01 PM
Very cool model, looks great. Who is "Young Daniel"?



That would be the famous Dan Banjock. However, young is stretching it a bit. Young Dan is old enough now to be called long on tooth. However that doesn't stop Dan from being young at heart. he does know how to have fun and enjoy the hobby.

Dennis
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: Dennis Adamisin on December 04, 2016, 05:12:49 PM
Beautiful bird.  Seeing how it is Danny I was hoping it had the twin lung Fox on it...!
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: wwwarbird on December 04, 2016, 06:30:44 PM

 Oh that Dan. I'm assuming those turbine exhausts are real aluminum then. ;D

 Hopefully we'll see some more photos...
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: Dennis Moritz on December 04, 2016, 07:43:07 PM
PA75. Header no pipe. All dope. Rubbed out with Gorans (sp?) then waxed. Dan conceived the idea. Then drew up the plans. Neat details all over the place. Some funny. A more conventional wing than his previous competition design, the Vista. The Vista had a fatter airfoil of near constant cord, only 1 degree of sweep back. The Raven wing, I believe, tapers airfoil towards the tip. Also more lead edge sweep. The Vista had issues, surprisingly, in very calm conditions. It went in, at least once, yanked out of the air by its residual wake. Dan thought the constant chord thick wing of Vista created a lot of turbulence. New wing is more conventional.


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Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: Mike Palko on December 04, 2016, 08:51:11 PM
More details....

Sig dope
PA 75 w/rear muffler
Mejzlik three blade
Modified spinner
Homemade canopy
Homemade aluminum turbine exhaust stacks
Randy Smith carbon wheel pants
Wing is based on Windy's Miss Ashley
Weight ~65oz

Mike
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Post by: Jared Hays on December 04, 2016, 08:59:46 PM
Nice
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Post by: wwwarbird on December 04, 2016, 09:23:05 PM

 Thanks for the extra info guys, very nice airplane. y1
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: Randy Cuberly on December 04, 2016, 11:50:49 PM
It is indeed a very nice airplane.

Bob Whitely also did one several years ago.  I have some photos of it but can't get my photo size reduction program to work tonight.  I'll try to send some photos of it tomorrow.

It had one of the special Double Star, double plug, 75's in it.

Randy Cuberly
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: Dennis Moritz on December 05, 2016, 05:40:14 AM
More Raven Pictures:
https://www.facebook.com/PhillyFliersCL/

Click the Photo button on the main facebook Page. Scroll past the old and ugly. More Raven pics. Good close ups.
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: Matt Colan on December 05, 2016, 09:33:40 AM
Beautiful work Dan!! Simply gorgeous!  Can't wait to see it!!
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: Skip Chernoff on December 05, 2016, 03:09:26 PM
After viewing Danny's beautiful Raven yesterday I came away with one question.....If that's not a 20 point airplane ,what is? Best wishes to Danny on creating such as beautiful example of what I call "Stunter Art". Let's hope that it flies as well as it looks.....PhillySkip
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: Crist Rigotti on December 05, 2016, 07:34:17 PM
wow, nice plane.
Title: Re: Young Daniel finished his "Raven...
Post by: Scott Richlen on December 05, 2016, 08:05:31 PM
Oh-oh!  If that flies as good as it looks Young Daniel will be cutting a wide swath through the Expert ranks.  No more showing up with a profile Bearcat with the Fox double 35 and giving the rest of us a chance.  We're all toast now, except maybe Palko...

Dang that thing is good-looking!!