F-104 Build

[Planehazza]

Saw this on facebook. Pretty cool!

[url=http://www.modelairplanenews.com/blog/2014/11/25/building-a-f-104-starfighter-in-20-minutes-video/]Start to finish kit build of a turbine powered RC Jet[/url]

[Varelco]

That can't be easy to fly, the Starfighter is so dis proportioned, the wings are tiny. On the real thing it had air bled off the compressor under the wings to provide enough lift on landing.

[dillwhacker]

That's awesome, enjoyed every bit of that. What a fantastic craftsman and gorgeous model, I can't imagine ever having the nerve to fly something like that.
Which is a shame, as I have a Wren 80 Jubilee sat here on a plank of wood....
:disillusionment:

[Darren77]

wow, that is a cool F-104. Thanks for the link

[Grumpy]

The same builder (Sean Mchale) must have another Starfighter because i found this video of him flying one with a different colour scheme taken in 2013, looks like the very same grass strip that he's flying from that was in the build video:
[video=youtube;9xHMErD7LP4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xHMErD7LP4[/video]
It must be a challennge to fly, just like the real one, turning radius of a supertanker and slow speed flying characteristics of a brick! I talked to a long serving RAF pilot who had flown several 'war games' type exercises against West german pilots flying the F-104. He said they were basically a missile carrier, the idea was to get within air to air missile range, launch the missiles and get out of there. If you got into an actual dog fight you were doomed because the F-104 wouldnt turn. The Lightnings he was flying would turn them inside out.

pS... the real one at low speed blew air over the top of the wings not under (aka 'blown flaps').

[debrooker]

true craftsman and a nice man cave