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Richard & Raptor

Busy.

Looking the other way...

John Williamson - Here is an Ornithopter photographed by me at Cleethorpes sea front with retracts in the raised position. Its looking at me...

Dave's Electric Thingy

Dave again

Ian Copass - Helicopter!

Barney - Combat wings, he's a control line freak lately. No big view because hes sending tiny bad quality mobile phone pictures...

Barneys Hot Rod knife edge

Barney with Electric Flying Wing

Barney and Daughter

Barneys 90 powered Pitts

John again... I will split these into separate pages and sort it out when time allows.  Pulse jet Delta. The plane has been flown off a slope, the engines been run and home designed fuel injection system set up and tested, but never both together!  Designed as a jet engine test platform with lots of area so it can go slow on landing on a grass field. And light so it can go up.

That was 12 years ago. It just horrendously loud. Makes those little pulse jets at the nationals sound like penny whistles.

All up weight 8lb 7oz including 2 1 litre plasma bags full of kerosene/petrol/propylene oxide. No throttle, fuel pump for mixture control. 11.5 to 13 lb thrust depending on pressure and temperature. Am going to swap the Pulse Jet for the Gas Turbine which is a pound and a bit heavier but makes 15 to 16 lb thrust and burns less fuel. Should go totally vertical at warp speed with either motor. Big |  Bigger

Here is the motor that I will replace the noisy pulse jet with.  It is a dirt cheap Jet Joe made in china MW54 very like the Wren that it copies. In the interest of more power this one has a wren combustion chamber, and because I watched a big Bee get sucked in the front bit has a Wren front cover and starter mounting as well as a wren 1 piece tail cone/exhaust nozzle. Here it is doing 160,000 rpm (about 16lb thrust) and 660 degrees C.  Looks quiet? Its really not!

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Tony Mercer - T Rex 600   Large  |  Larger

Mikes Raptor twice!

Richard and car hovering inverted at The Farm, in G4

F. Fast  -  1000MM Span, 7.5kg thrust and about 400kph

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