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I work on B-52's (G's back in the day and still working H's), been working
>on them for almost 13 years now, love 'em to death. 50 years old and stick >kicking...
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>Anyways, I've been thinking/planning an R/C B-52 for quite awhile now, more
>than 7 years now, and I'm finally in a position to start building the thing >this winter.
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>Recently I've come across a few of those electric ducted fan engines used to
>power those electric Kyosho models, F-16, T-33, I think that's what they are
>anyways, and I found them at TowerHobbies web site, found out I could
>actually order the fan units, motors, etc. seperately from the planes >themselves!
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>Short story made long :), here's some general spec's of what I've got
>planned out so far:
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>All measurements aquired from a Monogram B-52 model and enlarged a bit, so
>my plan comes out to about 1/30th scale, wing chord (root and tip) increased
>about 15-20%, giving me roughly 15% more wing area than true-scale, less
>sweep than the real thing, figure maybe 20 degrees (maybe more) instead of
>36 degrees, slightly thicker wing than scale, semi-symetrical airfoil (I had
>planned on copying the airfoil dimensions from my SkyTiger for simplicity),
>72 inch wingspan, 15-20% larger for horizontal/vertical stab's, split
>full-span ailerons (even though the G's & H's didn't have ailerons), with
>flaps in between, with working spoilerons, going to try to work in some sort
>of retractable/steerable/crab-able gear like the real thing, etc. and if
>I've got room maybe some sort of bomb drops, both in the bomb-bay and out on >the wings.
>I was thinking about using 4 of those ducted fan unit mentioned earlier with
>the battery packs in the fuse somewhere on the top of the bomb-bay in a
>sort-of replacable box for swapping out battery packs, 1 fan unit in each
>engine pod with a dummy unit next to it, or maybe put all 4 units in the
>inboard pods and leave the outboards pods as dummies (less wiring to run I
>suppose and lighter).
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>Taking an average "heavy" plane with a wingspan of about 6ft, this thing
>would weigh around, ohhh, 10-12 lbs, probably more, hopefully less. >
>Any thoughts on whether or not 4 of these electric ducted fan units would
>pull such a model around the air? How well they may/may not work?
>After all, when you really think about it, the model would just be a heavier
>than normal, high-mounted, swept-wing trainer...at least that's how I'm
>trying to talk myself into it :)
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>JDG
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