Some serious DIY modelling!

[The Wanderer]

that is some aircraft

[Bob Eager]

Wow!

[Andy Burns]

Sounds good too, fly it at 1km instead of 24km ... worry a few people.

[Tony Bryer]

+1 Awesome!

[The Natural Philosopher]

good landing too, on a strip that size.

Plenty of similar to be seen at any model airshow though. Just takes a deep pocket. And a lot of time.

[Tony Bryer]

Are the engines scaled-down RB211s or what? What fuel do they burn?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember The Wanderer saying something like:

Absolutely superb. Pity it's only got the one engine, but two engines might be next.

[dennis]

You can buy very small jet engines these days. Same technology as cruise missiles.

I have yet to see a stealth fighter model (not that i have looked much), they can only fly by wire as they are unstable. It used to be quite common for models to not be quite the same as the real thing in order to make them flyable.

[Andy Burns]

for a mere 1500 sods each, why not buy eight?

[geoff]

In message , The Wanderer writes

{Conspiracy mode}

Just what you need if the government send one of those pesky drones to spy on you

[Dave]

It sure is and it begs the question of how it all works together. Is the pitot tube at the front operational? Is it connected back to the ground controller? I could go on for ever.

One of the lads at BAe systems (British Aerospace as it was when he worked there) bought his first pure jet model aircraft about 5 to 8 years ago, but it was a single engine one. I have never seen it fly, but I would be keen to go back on site and see it in action though.

I might phone him up next week and see what hoops I have to jump through to get back on site. Security shouldn't be a problem as I had a very high clearance when I worked there.

Thanks for prompting me in this direction.

Dave

[Dave]

The clip describes it as 'engines' as in plural. There is no intake that could feed one engine, as it would have to be in the middle, also there is no engine nozzle at the back centre.

Dave

[The Natural Philosopher]

Think they are propane burners. They start on propane anyway. Might be paraffin thereafter.

Several commercial versions exist.

Google weren turbines. And IIRC JetCat. The turboprop is extremely impressive - seen that fly.

[The Natural Philosopher]

easily fixed by moving the CG forward enough.

more to make them flyable without radio by people who didn't know what they were doing.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Ali Mashinchy did. posturing sod

Well 4 anyway.

*I* saw him smash it on landing haha. we all cheered.

[The Natural Philosopher]

if you just want to see jets fly, any model show in the year generally has a few.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I assumed it was a twin.

No reason not to run a pair. Only expense.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave saying something like:

Typo, or deliberate mis-description.

Well hidden. Plus, you only hear one engine start.

Oh, yes there is, underneath.

Look again. It's very very well done, but need two for that total killer appeal.

[The Natural Philosopher]

MM. I think you are right.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Burns saying something like: