Gulfstream jet:
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__19730__G500_Fiberglass_90mm_x_2_EDF_1860mm_ARF_AUS_Warehouse_.html (http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__19730__G500_Fiberglass_90mm_x_2_EDF_1860mm_ARF_AUS_Warehouse_.html)
So did you get it?
They did offer this before.
I was considering it, but this would end up being a medium size plane weighing about 10 pounds or more.
To fly from our field it would need way-out-of scale (too big) retracts, would need extremely long take off and landing runs, or would have to be bungee launched, but I have never seen a 10-pound model bungee launched.
It would likely fly 2 speeds only: very fast and very-very fast.
Yes, this model can only really be flown off asphalt. Too bad it would make for a very sweet winter project.
P.S. Here is a user review:
"The G500 maiden flight from this morning. My complete build log can be seen here link below.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1535787 (http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1535787)
Its a glider once i got up in the air i throttle down to half throttle the whole flight.
16.1 lbs
4200 watts"
Hey what about AstroTurf??!
Kidding
Ben
I bet Ronnie could hand launching this bird no problem.
G500 for sale over at RCCanada:
http://www.rccanada.ca/rccforum/showthread.php?t=147976 (http://www.rccanada.ca/rccforum/showthread.php?t=147976)
16.1 pounds ? :o
Quote from: Michael on October 12, 2012, 09:18:58 AM
16.1 pounds ? :o
Sounds like a retract destroyer... Better belly land that bad boy ;D
16lbs on a retracting nose gear.... That is going to one strong nosegear!
On a rough grass field? sure you'd be lucky to get one flight in before the gear bends/rips off.
Other than that a standard retract for a jet that size is all you need.
Quote from: Bobmic on October 12, 2012, 10:16:44 PM
Quote from: Wingnutz on October 12, 2012, 08:19:56 AM
Flew at the NIPMAC field in North Bay this past weekend and they had a fabric (White astro turf?)runway in the middle of a grass field. (There was also a four-legged beaver in the middle of one of the two runways!) Transition from grass to runway was seamless as I taxied over it a couple of times. Fabric was held in place with spikes and came from a paper mill I think at a cost of a couple of hundred dollars...not bad for a 50x3-4 yard ! Apparently the fabric kills the grass underneath and then some kind of fine screenings will be compacted to make a permanent strip. ROGO maybe? I'd really like to do fewer nose-overs!
Pictures are from my dumb phone...sorry about the quality
So what do we need to do in order to have a similar setup?
What are we talking about here? Killing a stretch of the field grass so we can have fabric on it so we can fly a 14 pound golfstream? I've lost track.
Ben
I think Ben was referring to the fact that the thread was about the Gulfstream but it went a little off track. If we want to discuss the field maintenance, lets start a new thread about that.
How can we move the field improvement requests/suggestions into a new Topic?
I am sure we will have more comments and suggestions
Done.
There is a new thread about that topic.