Junk yard dog update

Well, today I finished the building process and all that is left is the hank test and DAR. Hope to test fly in July. Here are some pics of the finished product.I have a set of 25ft sport copters that I will test fly it with. The aircraft without the rotors is 640lbs. It has all digital instriments. MGL makes some cool duel purpose electronic gauges. I have RPM and rotor tack on one and airspeed and altimeter on the other. Then oil pressure, water temp and volt meter. Also in the MGL's are internal hobbs. I also have a set of 27ft dragon wings. May the best performance win!

Thats going to be one awsome machine Larry, great work!

nice work looks great!

Larry- Nice job! You have been busy. Stan

Nice work Larry, it looks good and I bet it will fly very well.

Thank-you all. I am really looking forward to test flying this bird. Any thoughts on rotor blade size? I have a set of sport copter 25ft and dragon wings 27ft. With rotors and fuel and pilot, should weight out at apx 950.

Call Ernie!

And looking good, be looking forward to the pilot reports!!!

Very nice. Show us more. Don't be withholding the pics.

I really like your electrical control box on the left side. I like the way it's neat and organized.

LARRYEBOYER said:

Any thoughts on rotor blade size? I have a set of sport copter 25ft and dragon wings 27ft. With rotors and fuel and pilot, should weight out at apx 950.

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Larry, I'd guess the 25' Sport Rotors will be too small. That's what they sell on the Vortex, with an all-up weight of about 750 pounds.

Dennis Dubois of Chapter 73 has a one-of-a-kind scratch-built machine he calls the "Viewmaster," with an empty weight similar to yours, and he runs 27' Sport Rotors. I suspect your Dragon Wings would be a more appropriate size for the JYD.

I would use the 27 DW

Is that a Corvair engine?

Hi Larry, I really like your work and those green digital guages look great!

Cheers,
PeeJay.

I have some more pics but these are from the day we unloaded it when he first bought it home from Michigan ??

It is a 2.2 subaru with a Parham redrive.

I gave Larry some of my test cheekplates to do the hang test with. I hope it won't need any more mods to get her flying.

Larry. How many gals. does your seat tank hold and where did you get it.
The one I had on the Dom I was building, If I remember right was 10 gal. from ulparts.com But they don't sell them anymore and I have not been able to find one yet. Thanx.

Larry

This place now sells the 10 & 14 Gal. seat tanks. they are the same tank, except the 10 Gal. tank doesn't have the big sump.. http://www.summitppc.com/tour.htm

Tank size is 12 gal. Try Summit racing. They have lots of seats. They would require some modification.