Chris C Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 hi, well me and my flying buddy (me history teacher who started me on model flying) are going to hack apart our lovely middel phase and put an engine in the front, i will post our progress here and any comments would be welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Heathen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Yeates Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 "power to the people" nothing beats screaming around the sky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 makeing good use of the new smilies timbo i see, at this rate ill have a mob of slope soarers after my guts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
001 Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I don't see any prolem with that. I had a Middle Phase with a 0.10 glow engine in it many years ago. But I can't help thinking that an electric motor would be easier to fit, cleaner, useable at noise sensitive sites and could be used as a way of gaining height, then switching off to glide or soar, which you can't do with I.C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 thanks for the suggestions do have any pics of the middle phase with the glow or any of the mathimatics like the down thurst angles of anything and we are fitting a .42 size thunder tiger engine the reason it is so big is beacuse we want to be able to use it in a varity of planes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myron Beaumont Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Heathen ? No ! I love it ---Back to proper aeroplanes already !Chris Hope you enjoy it --You.re learning fast ! Us engine folks need the likes of you to keep the proper peeps flying . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 hahaha thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myron Beaumont Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Chris The pleasure is all mine .Try a small diesel ie Cox 0.049/ Mills 0.75 ---All you need then to carry around is a 1/2 pint can ( sorry -about 500 mls I think ?) and a rubber thing for your digit (or a glove) until you're used to using your finger . No flight box -No batteries _no chargers _No glow plugs ___ Just instant power ! Complete trouble free flying --BUT of course you'll have to decide on your R/C batteries etc ---We all do ! In my opinion ( & I'm probably on my own again ! Stick to nicd's ) Sod the re-cycling thing .The politicians try to spoil everything to get votes & guess who suffers Us !! minimal users of toxic substances .Think I'm going off thread again but most peeps won't be able to find it anyway ! Just for fun I have made a deliberate mistake in this message ! Anybody spotted it ? & I dont mean the metric conversion ! Are you there Eric? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
001 Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Sounds far too big (the engine I mean.) I wouldn't recommend it at all. Just put a cheap 400 size electric motor in the nose and enjoy it. Also, let us know what part of the country are you in, I want to be well out of the way if you do to try to fly it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 this engine is going in the nose the reason it is so big is beacuse we want to use it in other planes, its mainly an exsperiment to see how well you can convert a slope soarer to beening a pure powered areoplane no longer used on the slope (iam getting to lazy to walk up the hills to fly it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former Member Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 [This posting has been removed] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted January 22, 2009 Author Share Posted January 22, 2009 ehh whats the fuz? it dose sound funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 fuselage - presume you know what that is ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted January 22, 2009 Author Share Posted January 22, 2009 duhhh whats that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braddock, VC Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Timbo, perhaps he remembers the 70s flower power cartoon where 2 hippy chicks were talking and the first referred to a police bust the night before and said to her mate, "got picked up by the fuzz last night" to which her mate retorts "bet that stung a bit" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Fisher Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I reckon that the "deliberate mistake" in Myron's offering was to include a Cox 049 as a diesel. Unless it's been converted, it's a glow engine. I would endorse his use of diesel power as a "no fuss" option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 just thought to say weve hacked off the nose 10mm past the battery former (those who have owned or built a chriss foss middel phase will inderstand) i will post some photos, we got the engine 5 days ago and iam still captavated every time i look at it ITS SOOOOO COOL and i can't wait to run it in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myron Beaumont Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Malcolm Well spotted ! Didn't think anyone was interested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Jones Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 .049 will be too smal, look for a .15 as a minimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 we are useing a thuder tiger 42 engine 4cc more power then we need but we want to use the engine for other things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Ireland Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 C'mon Chris, where are the piccies you keep on about! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Jones Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Oh, and heathen lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted February 25, 2009 Author Share Posted February 25, 2009 here are the pics sorry it took so long <before <<after Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted February 25, 2009 Author Share Posted February 25, 2009 done some more work after the photos where taken, we ahve cut the nose to length and iam makeing the front former through trial and error iam currently on my second attempt also we are getting the correc size fuel tank and barears for teh engine so we should have them next week then we'll run teh engine in and strengthen up the rear wing and put the servos in place further back in the plane :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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