08-19-2016, 10:20 AM
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Old Far...er...Rocketeer
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Plano, TX resident since 1998.
Posts: 3,965
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Originally Posted by blackshire
Hello All,
Being a long-time Me 163 Komet fancier, I was pleasantly surprised to come across this ARF Me 163 R/C scale model (see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9tDy5rlEBQ ), which is designed to use standard model rocket motors. It has a high-powered, nose-mounted brushless electric motor which turns a slightly up-scaled propeller (the full-scale Komet had a nose-mounted generator with a propeller-type slipstream wind turbine; the model uses this as its tractor propeller). With this alone, it is capable of blistering speeds and snap maneuvers, and the R/C-ignited rocket motor option gives it even greater acceleration and velocity. |
FWIW, here's Dave Schaeffer's Me163 flight at BALLs 21 (2012). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kItaMa7df2w
In the beginning, that's Dave hooking up the ignitor while Paul Holmes looks on. The motor was an I-161.
Dave said the CG was super critical, that there was only a narrow range for it to reside while maintaining stability.
Doug
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