BOOMERANG SPRINT TURBINE

Done a little more on the sprint, air systems for the retracts and brakes fitted and tested, air tight no leaks, reminds me when i was a plumber.
The turbines are here, going to collect them today, get them fitted and we are ready to fly next Saterday will be the maiden.
From a Wat 4 to a turbine in a year of flying been a great experience a few crashes along the way but if i dont push it i will not progress, is how i see it.
Just need a patern ship now to make my hanger complete.

What turbine have you elected to use? i had a P80SE in mine.

Hi Jet Jock i am useing a Jetcat 100RX, i need two for a scratch build im doing this winter and also for the Jetlegend SU27 Flanker i have in a box waiting for me to learn to fly.
Picked up the two turbines last night



This is all new to me,been adding some more parts to the sprint, managed to get all three lipo's in the nose, got the fuel pump in , the ecu on the side, the i/o board and the Power Box switch fitted.



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Any advice will be welcome Jet Jock, i dont think much to the Boomarang kit i think it is very overpriced and the covering is rubbish, and the guy that owns Boomarang is not very good either, i complained about the kit when it arrived, got no satisfaction from him at all now he will not ship to Cyprus at all.
ASSHOLE
Got a guy here that needs a spare part for his sprint and he wont send it
Again ASSHOLE

I have not bought a boomer for sometime, i had a sprint when they first came out but sold it a few months later as i was not using it. I have no experience of the latest owner . . . . does not sound good though!

I have a 100RX which i have yet to run but i have a friend with one in a Bandit and he is very pleased with it.

Ran the turbine in the Sprint this morning after an hour of checking my work and setting the thing up,mind boggling i was totaly lost but i had some very good help from Dimetri the local shop owner the mans a mine of information and his knowledge of model aircraft second to none.
Had a taxi around very exciting next weekend we fly its maiden.

You really are proceding well BB - and the Gasser shouldn't have any problem getting all crossed up for you anyway - he's naturally that way. I notice you mentioned a pattern ship - if you want something classic from way back in the 70's I have the full size plans for the Killer Kaos, Super Kaos and Daddy Rabbit - unused! All take 60 power.

Spent the afternoon putting the finnishing touches to the Sprint so now it is all ready to go
( i think )

Thanks Grumpy ill PM you, im looking forward to the maiden, just found out that the tube supplied
for the retracts is not suitable for the fittings on the air cylinders, one of them started to leak air.
So ill have to replace all the air system pipework before the weekend, it must be 100% correct before i fly it.
Same people supplied the whole air system

Redone the air system, and i stood looking at thinking something i had missed???
180 grams of lead in the nose later it balanced nicely

THE BLACKBIRD wrote: Redone the air system, and i stood looking at thinking something i had missed???
180 grams of lead in the nose later it balanced nicely

Have you checked the lateral balance?

Pol

Im a jet pilot now, flew the Sprint this morning but not the maiden flight, discretion got the better of valour with the cost of the plane involved i let Dimetri fly the maiden and i flew the second flight
We had a problem with the turbine not responding to the throttle properly ( it sounded ok to my deaf ear's ) took 4 attemps to get it right but eventuly she flew and with no trim needed, a very tight bum moment .
had my video camara going but was not able to track the plane soon after take off, sorry about that.
someone else came out and took the camara over but he was the same as me and he normaly films the jets up there i got the take off but not to good.
Any how i dont know how to get it on here, just got the one still.
When it was my turn i was tremberling what a moment to open the throttle and have all that moneys worth under my two thumbs wow, but it flew so smooth and precise had a few figure of eights circuits then a victory roll then in to land but i had a couple of bounces that spoilt it
Magic


And thats the Cap 232 you can see with its nose sticking out of the pits in the background, it also flew very well today .

Went flying this morning had a couple of flights and this happend,





i know the covering was shit when it arrived, ( i complained to Boomarang, result they will no longer ship to Cyprus) but this after a few flights considering the price of the kit.
It fly's so well i think i will strip it all off and glass it during the winter.

Hi Klipy im useing two 2200 2s lipo's going through a Power Box Gemini switch, if one lipo is down it switches to the other one, then theres a 2200 life for the turbine,
Im useing a 8 channel Spektrum receiver with one satelite, air retracts and air brakes both with seperate air systems.