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| Jim Gibson brought a model of the full-size T-33 he rode
in 53 years ago, on August 8th, when he was discharged from
military service. This is not your box-stock soccer-mom's
Kyosho T-33: Jim put a Hacker B40 in there, and this plane
moves out! Lance Nordby managed to get this tiny F-16 display model
flying on a 1/2-inch diameter Medusa fan and a teeny-weeny
brushless motor. He launches it from a scratch-built, hand-held
catapult of his own design, and the little 14" jet looks
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| Brandon Vazquez bungee-launched his Halo EDF jet. The plane
pitched up sharply, but accelerated safely, and flew extremely
well. Lenny Keer had fixed an unsprung landing gear to his
Schübeler
Vector-2 jet. Turns out, the rigid gear and the springy runway
surface don't mix, and they turned the Vector into a bucking
bronco; unfortunately the plane could not get airborne. |
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