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Old 05-20-2009, 09:08 PM
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Oops, I forgot to mention that. I figured it out to be this: http://www.spacemodeling.org/JimZ/enerjet/ejn01d.jpg (zero-one, not oh-el)

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Much better. Wow, that's wild!

I never built one, so I need to ask: how well did the X-24 Bug glide, anyway?

BTW, who is that man who is in all of the Enerjet pictures? I assume that he is one of the company's principles, but he's obviously not Lee Piester.

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Old 05-20-2009, 09:14 PM
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...how well did the X-24 Bug glide, anyway?
If you don't over build it, get it trimmed well, and have the magic touch, it will glide OK


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BTW, who is that man who is in all of the Enerjet pictures? I assume that he is one of the company's principles, but he's obviously not Lee Piester.
Don't know. Hopefully one of the others here can ID him.

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Old 05-20-2009, 09:17 PM
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...how well did the X-24 Bug glide, anyway?
BTW, don't over power it, either. C5-3's are not good for them. Doug .



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Old 05-21-2009, 08:09 PM
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Sorry about the link not working.I've been reading this forum for a few years but I'm new at this posting thing.
Yeah the x-24 kind of fell with style. If I clone another I think I'll move the launch lug to the engine tube so it won't stick on the launch rod.
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Much better. Wow, that's wild!

I never built one, so I need to ask: how well did the X-24 Bug glide, anyway?

BTW, who is that man who is in all of the Enerjet pictures? I assume that he is one of the company's principles, but he's obviously not Lee Piester.

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Old 05-21-2009, 10:27 PM
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Thems the ones. The T-25 was like my Strato Blaster,or whatever. The Golden Scout "glides",yes?


Where's the hi-res version of the T-25 Centurian photo?
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Here are my favorite gliders:

Estes Condor Glider - right now it is painted primer white and it is waiting for its booster to be built.

Rokitflite's Fake Wolf - great design and glider. I built mine heavy so I called it "Der Flying Cow". Flew five times trying to balance it but it "disassembled itself" upon impact on the fifth flight... waiting to be repaired.

Semroc's Nighthawk - What a challenge to build. Airfoiling the wings of the glider as per instructions took me about 4 hours and an asma attack... still needs to be balanced. Right now the pod has been painted Metalflake orange and the glider is black.

PDR's Orbital Transport - this one I finished today and is waiting for clear coating.
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I finally got to launch the Ecee today! The recovery was not what I would call a glide though. More like a 45 degree emergency decent!

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Old 05-22-2009, 11:10 PM
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Semroc's Nighthawk - What a challenge to build. Airfoiling the wings of the glider as per instructions took me about 4 hours and an asma attack...
Yeah, that is quite a chore.

I noticed that while sanding mine that one wing was way easier to sand than the other so it turns out that one of the wings is considerably heavier than the other

I wish I had weighed the wings before building. I would have ordered another set of laser cut parts and tried to match up a couple of wings that were closer in weight.

I added a couple of grams of lead to one wing and it's still not enough.
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