My first fuel jet :-)

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WWWWOOOOWWWW!!! WHAT A WONDERFUL PLANE AND WHAT A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL PICS!!! VERY WELL TAKEN!!! GREETINGS FROM COLOMBIA (SOUTH AMERICA)
HEY HK GUYS!!! WHEN DO YOU GIVE SOME TURBINES TO US! PLEASE GO AHEAD ASAP!!!

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JFARBOLEDA Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (CO) USERID: 95168 Newbie Joined: 15/Jul/2009 Location: COLOMBIA Online Status: Offline Posts: 6	Quote Reply Posted: 17/Oct/2009 at 2:06pm
	WWWWOOOOWWWW!!! WHAT A WONDERFUL PLANE AND WHAT A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL PICS!!! VERY WELL TAKEN!!! GREETINGS FROM COLOMBIA (SOUTH AMERICA) HEY HK GUYS!!! WHEN DO YOU GIVE SOME TURBINES TO US! PLEASE GO AHEAD ASAP!!!

u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Posted: 27/Oct/2009 at 11:01pm
	Repairs are comming along nicely, but now that I got her guts open, I keep finding small things that need fixing or that can be improved. Glassing is done and front retract + pneumatics are back in. Noticed a small crack in the cap of the fuel bottle, so I replaced it. Also noticed the fuel line to the clunck was getting hard, so replaced that also. Moved 2 airvalves to the nose, so I could take some more lead out. Testfitted and balanced the plane and in all I'll be able to take 160g of lead out. Not worldshocking on a 12kg plane, but every gram is one less to take up :-)

u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Posted: 27/Oct/2009 at 11:03pm
	Ow and the T22 found a girlfriend !! A bit taller then himself, but quite a bit lighter and full 3D capable with vectorthrust tube :

u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Posted: 08/Nov/2009 at 3:34am
	Ok, I've put the eurosport back in its box and continued on repairing the T22. I think I'm mostly finished now, just have to put some velcro on the receiver and tie the last servocables together. Did a testrun of the turbine this evening after dark, which gave me this nice picture :-)

u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Posted: 10/Nov/2009 at 12:29am
	Yippie, she flies again !! I removed 160g lead out of the nose, so I think she didn't gain any weight from the repairs. Handling is just like before. Still had an airleak though and landinggear came out about half flight. No big problem though. I can burn kero again !!

W3FJW Ron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Platinum (US) USERID: 63218 Forum Admin Joined: 19/Feb/2009 Location: Tacoma WA Online Status: Offline Posts: 9067	Quote Reply Posted: 10/Nov/2009 at 11:25am
	Glad it all came back together successfully Rudi. Now get on that air leak...
	*Best Regards* I can only remember half of what I say.... I used to walk on water 'til I found out it was more fun sitting in the boat drinking beer Ron

u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Posted: 26/Nov/2009 at 8:16pm
	Airleak is fixed, it was the one way filler valve, but fortunately HC does carry those :-) Did 2 more flights, bringing the total on 22 flights now and about 50 liters of kerosine burned Next up is connecting my eagletree logger to the speed and altimeter so that I can see data from the whole flight, instead of just the max values. Meters are version 3 and logger is version 2 and they didn't work together very well (got bogus results) but after a firmware update of my logger (thx eagletree for providing these on their website) it seems to work now. Just waiting for better weather cause it's VERY windy here this week. Other things that need to be done is replacing the air cilinder of the speedbrake (it jams sometimes) and improving the locks on the big hatch on the back. After that stronger aileron servo's are wanted so I can let her rip full throttle some more :-) Been wondering wether I should put HK servo's in her, despite everyone telling me I shouldn't (Jetflyers seem to stick with JR expensive servo's) 6-8kg torque servo's should do nicely.

pabloramos Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Gold (ES) USERID: 383438 Newbie Joined: 13/Dec/2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2	Quote Reply Posted: 13/Dec/2009 at 7:58am
	Mmm nice work man Does she like drinking too much fuel? 300km/h.. Good Luck with that!

jeff.burbank Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List N/A (N/A) USERID: 0 Bargain Addict! Joined: 15/Nov/2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 46	Quote Reply Posted: 26/Dec/2009 at 3:51pm
	What an awesome looking jet! fantastic! also i love your pictures, keep up the good work!

u4eake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Platinum (BE) USERID: 10128 HobbyKing Mod HobbyKing Moderator Joined: 24/Feb/2009 Location: Diest (Belgium) Online Status: Offline Posts: 281	Quote Reply Posted: 11/Jan/2010 at 8:52pm
	Fuel consumption at full throttle is about 0.5 liters per minute. Have made some eagletree datalogs of 2 flights. It also happens that I experienced a flame out on both flights due to air in the fuel line. You can see the pump amps go down and up again just before the flameouts Both flame-outs happened when trying a full throttle vertical climb. Luckily I was able to land deadstick safely both times. First flight : second flight :