friesianflyer

Have a look at this video taken at our flying site last night:

[link]http://www.friesianflyer.co.uk/videos/turbospitfire.wmv[/link]

(please right clickand saveas)

Enjoy.

swissflyer

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outstanding...

chris b

Beautiful Spitfire, great flight! Fabulous!!! (Originally from UK, so it was nice to see a bit of home too!)

jonkoppisch

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Looks good!! The sound of the turbine with the prop was great! What turbine/prop combo are you using?

mikehannah

I WANT ONE !!!!!!!

Ali

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Thanks a lot for the video guys. I never thought it would come out ok with the sun where it was. Shame about the prop hanging gasser 2 stroke[:'(] The again it does give you a comparison to appreciate the turbo prop against.
Chris. Glad we could bring a bit of sunny England to you. What you were looking at was the corner of south east hertfordshire, just on the north side of the M25. Glorious country on an evening like that.
Anyway the model is a Fiberclassics spitfire converted from zenhoa 62 gasser to the mighty Wren turboprop. This is the latest edition with no separate oil tank. The prop is a Menzs 28x10 doing I guess around 8-8500 rpm. Just right as the tips can bark pretty much on command but not all the time. The model weighs 38 lbs and thats with 8 lbs of lead. If I were to do another one I would think more carefully about the back end and lose most of that lead.
I hope you enjoy what started out as a joke and has turned into a very rewarding project

volkan

Ali,
Did you get my email about RC Exp?
Im sure Nath will have a chat to you.

BTW thats a great vid.
and the weather is great!

glowplugboy

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Whewww! If Great Britian had had Turbo-prop Spits back in WWII! Sort of like considering if Napoleon had had a B-52 at the Battle of Waterloo.... of course, though, he wouldn't know how to fly it.... Beautiful job Ali!
Regards,
Mike
GCBM R/C Models Inc.
Pasadena, Texas

Jetset

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One word.........AWESOME!
Myles

Ali

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Volakn,
I did see your mail and sent you a response. Thanks for the compliments guys. I am glad you like it

Dave03B

there are some of us who don't like it at all, and think its awful!


yer right.

Great job fella[sm=thumbup.gif]
btw Ali, I read somewhere that you prepping to install a smoke system to your Hawk (arrows scheme)? how's it going?

Ali

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Hi Dave,
It's installed and working. Regretting it every moment. Smoke= Nasty stinky smelly heavy stuff that just turns a nice model into an old wreck. Still public seem to like it.

volkan

We do.
You bringing it to weston?
btw, I didnt get your email.

Dave03B

'Corse they (we) do! Just out of interest, Are you using the full 27lbs thrust from the P120*? and how much does the model weigh wet now?
Cheers, Dave

*presuming you're using a p120 in it.

Ali

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Hi Dave,
The Hawk is running a normal P-120 as for weight I have n oidea but I would guess 23-24 lbs.
The Spitifre should be at weston park, and I will see if I can re send that email

Robrow

Difficult to tell from the vid but looks like you have got around 80% power/weight Ali?

Rob.

Ali

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Rob Hi,
I would say that is a fair estimate.

icepilot

That is just beautiful, Ali - and the sunset flight is really outstanding!

Now if you would just mount machine guns and blast that prop hanger the next time!!

Greeting from Tor/Norway

madibav8

Hi all,

I was at Weston Park Model Show (NW of Birmingham) this weekend with our scale aircrew supplies stand (www.scaleaircrewsupplies.co.uk), and Ali put on demos on both Sat and Sun (+ a couple of evening demos for us traders!), and I can confirm to everyone, that this was a real show stopper!! The slow flying charachteristics were also very imprsesive, but the sound in real life is just awsome!

One thing Ali..have you got a pilot yet! If not, try and get to our stand at Cosford in July, or Catton Hall in Aug and I'll do you a deal!

As DB would say (much loved model airshow comentator in UK).....well done Buddy!

cheers

Mark

Darrell B.

Beautiful Sunset,

Nothing beats the look of a beautiful warbird coming in out of that spectacular sunset. Very nice airplane, and the turboprop seems to really fit it quite well. Thanks for the great video from accross the pond.

Darrell B.

Ali

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Tor Hi,
Yeah, Machine guns would have come in useful on one of those passes, but as I said this is no fighting Spitfire. It's only meant to race. Anybody got a Turbo prop Mustang and a couple of pylons?
Mark Hi,
I stopped by at the weekend and looked at your stand. Impressive display of a novel product. Well done. I am afarid the Spit already has a pilot that the painter made especially for this model. It took him longer to do the pilot than strip and re-paint the entire model so I dont think he would be best pleased if I take him out in the near future. Thanks for the offer, and I may very well take you up on it with a future project.
I think I will use that sunset look again.

learjet-RCU

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thats the ultimate Turboprop performance

[link=http://www.jets.at/images/gallery/tucano_new/index.htm]TUCANO[/link]

Ali

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I suppose I have to see the funny side. This is the Tucano that is to blame for the spitfire project ever happening, as it was this tucano that I ordered my wren turboprop unit for originally, and the delay in the Tucano appearing is what lead to the Spitfire project starting.
I feel another telephone call to Wren coming on.

learjet-RCU

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Hi Al,

there is no more delay. I think you have to call Wren.

Ali

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When do you think my Tucano will ship? I need to know how much time I have to choose a colour scheme?