I’m leaving on a jet plane, don't know if I'll be back again. Yes, Henry John Deutschendorf Sr. set the speed record in the B-58 as an elite Air Force pilot. Junior crashed his experimental Rutan Long-EZ, flying on a questionable pilot‘s certificate due to some other issues. So the question is will this rocket powered B- 58 fly like a Senior or Junior? After review by the top men at the club they may be putting me more in the junior category. But why?
This one doesn’t use girly man canted motors in the nose for virtual flame action to stabilize it like the Lancaster. No, this one is proper, with the motors on the bottom and me nose cones up top! I am trying to get the asymmetrical drag worked out with the landing gear, cute little drag inducers I call 'em. But as always there are a few other issues to work out with silly oddroc airplanes. On Six D12’s and at two pounds ten ounces I should be OK. Nose weight is all in the cones and the nose wheel, keeping it right above the thrust and keeping that centerline moving straight up. The D12 5 in the pod will poor boy dual deploy the chutes on the cone and body after the other D12 3s have gone, eliminating any nose wheel peril. Eight chutes in all will bring all the pieces down nice and soft. Another six motor park flyer for the kids. Mind sim and Hope sim have given me a lot of trouble on this one, maybe time for a new version or better operating system.
The pictures below show construction just about finished. Just more work on the cockpit, add the tail radar and a few more bits with the recovery system and then off to beauty school. The 1/72 B 52 decals should be coming in soon and lots of nasty silver painting await.
Hopefully I will get her done and the weather will be good up in South Park for a real Rocky Mountain High, if the Tripoli research boys are up for it.
This one doesn’t use girly man canted motors in the nose for virtual flame action to stabilize it like the Lancaster. No, this one is proper, with the motors on the bottom and me nose cones up top! I am trying to get the asymmetrical drag worked out with the landing gear, cute little drag inducers I call 'em. But as always there are a few other issues to work out with silly oddroc airplanes. On Six D12’s and at two pounds ten ounces I should be OK. Nose weight is all in the cones and the nose wheel, keeping it right above the thrust and keeping that centerline moving straight up. The D12 5 in the pod will poor boy dual deploy the chutes on the cone and body after the other D12 3s have gone, eliminating any nose wheel peril. Eight chutes in all will bring all the pieces down nice and soft. Another six motor park flyer for the kids. Mind sim and Hope sim have given me a lot of trouble on this one, maybe time for a new version or better operating system.
The pictures below show construction just about finished. Just more work on the cockpit, add the tail radar and a few more bits with the recovery system and then off to beauty school. The 1/72 B 52 decals should be coming in soon and lots of nasty silver painting await.
Hopefully I will get her done and the weather will be good up in South Park for a real Rocky Mountain High, if the Tripoli research boys are up for it.
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