More Air Hog Experiments!
Jacob Longacre recently sent me these pictures and notes...
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"I was looking at your web site and was very impressed with your Rocketeer compressed air model. I also used the Air Hog motor for a free flight model, a P-40 Warhawk.
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When this picture was taken, flight times were around 20 seconds. Since then I have significantly rebuilt the nose and chin, and flight times so far are between 25 and 30 seconds.
Its best flight time to date is 33 seconds
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This is a work in progress. I have modified it a number of times through lessons learned with the Air Hogs motor. I think the potential for that motor is tremendous. The finish was done with waterbase paints and homemade printed "decals". I have been experimenting with weathering and this is one of my test subjects. The pilot is carved from white foam. The cockpit detail is a color print of a P-40 cockpit photo. I couldn't do a 3D cockpit due to the position of the air tank. |
View Jacob's foam Nikitin Schevchenko IS-4.
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