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Old Sep 25, 2007, 02:29 PM
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Masks off

Masks are removed in the pic. The contours are slowly getting in shape. I plan to use black color to contrast with the orange/yellow combo. That combined with a fire breathing scheme will make it look awesome.

I planned to maiden this babe tomorrow but it looks like I have to postpone till next weekend because so far I have only test fitted the hardware for CG estimation. This is one of the things I never hurry up.

Its time to pay some attention to the Projeti. The trim process and maiden is not over yet.
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Old Sep 25, 2007, 02:32 PM
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painting in progress

Elevons, fuel pods and nose are now painted in black
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Old Sep 26, 2007, 02:20 PM
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Fuselage painted black

Fore fuselage is painted in black. I may use tape for rest the area. With this the bulk of the painting work is over.
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Old Sep 26, 2007, 02:21 PM
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While the paint was drying

While the paint was drying, I had put a new elevator control horn for the Su-27. the old horn was getting bent due to stress from high alpha recovery.
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Old Sep 26, 2007, 02:22 PM
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Flame stencil

I saw this scheme somewhere on the web. Tried to do something similar.

This is the hard part. To create and outline the stencil for the flame. I had to reverse it for the left and right side.
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Old Sep 27, 2007, 03:40 PM
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Another angle of flames

Another angle of flames
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Old Sep 27, 2007, 03:41 PM
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Flames - Half Way done.

Flames - Half Way done.
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Old Sep 28, 2007, 06:12 PM
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Very COOL! Great job!
Very excited to here how it flyes, keep us posted on the build log
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Old Oct 01, 2007, 03:24 PM
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Thanks flyin C. I'm sure will post the details.
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Old Oct 01, 2007, 03:29 PM
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Does look beautiful and lethal at the same time

Does look beautiful and lethal at the same time. A pirate skull in the vertical stabs will make a good fit.
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Old Oct 02, 2007, 07:14 PM
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Show time.....

Its time to forget maiden blues and enjoy the momemt
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Old Oct 04, 2007, 10:55 AM
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Maiden Video

Ok. Here is the maiden video. Nothing crazy though, just some regular maiden trims and manuvers.

Config:

Mega 16/25/3, 6 X 6 graupner, 4S 2200.

I was flying half throttle for most the time.


funjet on Steroids : Part 1 (3 min 52 sec)
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Old Oct 05, 2007, 11:57 AM
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Here we go

I did not build this Funjet for 4S. If I do so it will be a waste of time on all the reinforcements and glassing I did.

More research needed before I give a green light...
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Old Oct 05, 2007, 05:40 PM
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great video. It looked like it was going pretty fast for half throttle...

No, I think you should step it up to 10s!

haha, I think you would be the first to do that if you really were to do it.

How would you compare the handling of this wing to others, such as the stryker, wing warriors?
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Old Oct 05, 2007, 06:45 PM
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Thanks....I wouldn't dare to go 10S, not because the funjet couldn't handle it but for the cost of the equipment involved

I think 6S would be the max for this plane.

I haven't built a wing warrior but built and flown few strykers.

Although stryker is a joy plane to fly, I feel Funjet has bit more handling characteristics and drag is less than stryker.

Also stryker has smaller battery comparment than funjet. However in funjet, there is no easy way to access your ESC, BEC or motor wires once the turtle top is glued in, or at least it is not as east as in stryker.

For speed, stryker would never get close to Funjet's speed with the same setup.

I'm aiming for 150 mph range with 6S in Funjet. Will know for sure in couple of weeks.
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