Hobbyking stepping up their game?

[flying saucer]

Gulfstream jet:

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__19730__G500_Fiberglass_90mm_x_2_EDF_1860mm_ARF_AUS_Warehouse_.html

[thehaze]

So did you get it?

[Michael]

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.

[flying saucer]

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

Its a glider once i got up in the air i throttle down to half throttle the whole flight.

16.1 lbs

4200 watts"

[bfeist]

Hey what about AstroTurf??!

Kidding

Ben

[thehaze]

I bet Ronnie could hand launching this bird no problem.

[battlestu]

G500 for sale over at RCCanada:

http://www.rccanada.ca/rccforum/showthread.php?t=147976

[Michael]

16.1 pounds ? 

[thehaze]

16.1 pounds ? 

Sounds like a retract destroyer... Better belly land that bad boy 

[Ededge2002]

16lbs on a retracting nose gear.... That is going to one strong nosegear!

[flying saucer]

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.

[bfeist]

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

[thehaze]

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.

[Bobmic]

How can we move the field improvement requests/suggestions into a new Topic?
I am sure we will have more comments and suggestions

[thehaze]

Done.

There is a new thread about that topic.