The Cyprus SU 27 Flanker by Jet Legend

This what you are looking for BB??

Garry

Yes thats it Garry thank you, i could not find it :silly: :silly: just want to read through and see if i can improve anything

See, Garry looked where it was, and he found it. :lol:

I rang up and put my order in for another JetCat 100RX for the Su 27


So hopefuly i can get into the air this year

Very nice but way out of my league.
One Jet Cat 100RX cost more than I spend on planes in....let me see...5 years! :sick: :sick:

Each to his own Simon, i enjoy flying the jets nothing else comes near it for me i get bored very quickly just poodling around the sky

That looks mighty impressive BB, I'll look forward to hearing about it in the air.

....and I sincerely hope it satisfies your desire for an adrenaline rush....it looks like it should.... :evil: :evil: :evil:

Very nice. Did you go for a new motor in the end?

Hi Simon yes im getting new, as JetCat offered a new one when i lost the other £200 cheaper than those second hand one we looked at
I clicked the smiley and got an advert instead :S

Looking for something to make a change from the Bucker and b

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y Hunter repairs / painting
I decided to get this ready for November 14th when we start the jet flying again

Took one look at what I had done in it and decided it needed all stripping out and starting again so that's what I have done
Had to make some additions to the stand as I needed to split the fuselage again



The fuel tanks are to small that's supplied with the model at 1800 ml in each one so I had added a Dubro 1200 ml when I first did it




but it did not fill all the space available being standard tank, so I decided to custom build one :ohmy:
Soooo never built one before, question was how, out came the blue foam and I made it to fit the opening in the former

You won't get much fuel into it, though! :evil: [badass]

Made a rebate around the rim of one half

And added a tongue to the other half

Put two layers of glass fibre over both halves,


I will now sand it down polish it and spray it with mould release, give it a couple or four layers on top of that, and when it gone off destroy the plug from inside, as I want the finished side to be inside the tank

When it was in my friends storage a while ago it got damaged under the nose, very annoyed about it, and im apprehensive about trying to repair it
Anyway I decided I could not leave it, so we will see what a mess I can make of a beautiful model
I keyed the area and filled with P38 filler

spent a lot of time rubbing it down and putting the detail lines back it, ready to paint now :ohmy: I really don't do good painting :S
The fuel tank has come out ok quite pleased with it





And it holds 2.7 lts filled the two halves with water this morning, but not including the 20mm lip that fits in the other half
Worked on the nose wheel steering, when I did it first time the only way I could see of getting it to work was with the servo on a bracket and wires to the nose leg
But the answer was so simple, I mounted the servo on top of the leg with two pins from the servo horn to behind the leg
so it is free to retract forward :silly:





Sorry not good photos

Are you sure the glass fibre will be fuel proof?
Even if it only degrades very slowly any release is likely to block the fuel filter.

Good point, Q.
If I recall, someone at my club repaired a cracked petrol tank on a strimmer with epoxy - but the petrol dissolved it over a period of time. Whether Jet A1 would is not clear.