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kirt hood wrote:
Here's a link to the one I had, flew almost 300 hours and had a blast.... http://members.shaw.ca/m1.mustang/kirt.htm That 500 looks like it would be a lot of fun to fly. It's one of the first I considered back when I was looking. The only problem was the single seat and no storage space. That wouldn't matter at all when flying around home. Do you have any pictures of the cockpit? Thanks for sending the link.. -- boB, SAG 70 U.S. Army Aviation (retired) Central Texas - 5NM West of Gray Army Airfield (KGRK) |
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boB, I tried sending some pictures but they just came back as undeliverable
and I'm not sure how to or if even one is able to post photograghs on this news group. There is storage space in the Mini on either side of the seat, I had some stiff type bags molded to the floor with zipper type tops that could hold the equivilant of about 4 gal. each that were secured for flying with the doors off. Biggest issue was lack of power in the summer months when one would want to go camping, but plenty of power when it was -10 deg. C. Send me an e-mail address or a method of posting pictures and I'l be happy to send you a few. Kirt "boB" wrote in message ... kirt hood wrote: Here's a link to the one I had, flew almost 300 hours and had a blast.... http://members.shaw.ca/m1.mustang/kirt.htm That 500 looks like it would be a lot of fun to fly. It's one of the first I considered back when I was looking. The only problem was the single seat and no storage space. That wouldn't matter at all when flying around home. Do you have any pictures of the cockpit? Thanks for sending the link.. -- boB, SAG 70 U.S. Army Aviation (retired) Central Texas - 5NM West of Gray Army Airfield (KGRK) |
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kirt hood wrote:
boB, I tried sending some pictures but they just came back as undeliverable and I'm not sure how to or if even one is able to post photograghs on this news group. There is storage space in the Mini on either side of the seat, I had some stiff type bags molded to the floor with zipper type tops that could hold the equivilant of about 4 gal. each that were secured for flying with the doors off. Biggest issue was lack of power in the summer months when one would want to go camping, but plenty of power when it was -10 deg. C. Send me an e-mail address or a method of posting pictures and I'l be happy to send you a few. Kirt Hi kirt. Thanks for replying. You can go to http://xs.to and upload even large pictures up to 1.4 meg I think. Then they are there for others to see. I use that one plus http://imageshack.us Both are easy and give you the html code for forums, e-mail, direct link and others. -- boB, SAG 70 U.S. Army Aviation (retired) Central Texas - 5NM West of Gray Army Airfield (KGRK) |
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Stuart & Kathryn Fields wrote:
bob: You may want to consider the Helicycle: Single seat turbine powered kit helicopter currently in production. There are somewhere around 20 flying. One report had one still climbing at 11,500 mol. The price is competitive with the RAF2000 and has a lot more capability. We've been trying to get the factory to provide the magazine a long term evaluation model but no luck. Thanks Stuart. I have been reading the helicycle web page for a bit and will finish later on. That's a nice little aircraft. -- boB, SAG 70 U.S. Army Aviation (retired) Central Texas - 5NM West of Gray Army Airfield (KGRK) |
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kirt hood wrote:
I had some stiff type bags molded to the floor with zipper type tops that could hold the equivilant of about 4 gal. each that were secured for flying with the doors off. Yes, the Mini-500 bags... it looks like fetters still has them available http://www.fetters.co.uk/product_lis...nav_category=4 |
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"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net wrote in
message ... I not only visualized it, but tried it on my RC sim several times last night. 1 out of 10 ain't a good success rate. Which sim have you got Kevin? I bought Reflex XTR the other day. I can't get any of my radio functions to do throttle hold properly though, so I have to hit the A key to enter an auto. Very impressed with the sim though. The last one I owned was the original Realflight Deluxe and this is a light year ahead of that. Si |
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"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net wrote in message ... Flying ol' reliable G2. Works fine for me although I'd love to see the new eye-candy in G3 or XTR. Can't justify the $$ right now as the new electric foamy bipe I'm building is killing my wallet. (Not to mention Christmas and the little mini-vacation I just got back from) I've seen and flown the G2. Maybe it was the program or just the computer that was running it but I really wasn't that impressed. It's Ok if that's all you've ever seen. I think you'll find the G3 and XTR are head and shoulders better than the G2. :-) Fly Safe, Steve R. |
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