I'd like to chime in here. I hold a Single Engine pilot license, I've been flying RC for 37+ years and spent my 16+ years with the USAF and DOD as a Jet Engine Mechanic/Production Engineer on AWACS TF-33, F16C&D GE F110, B1 GE F101, and KC 135R GE F108 engines, along with J79, J57 and a few other engines.
Even the smallest of RC or FF airplanes can do hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars of damage to a jet engine, not to mention putting the pilot, aircraft and landing areas in grave danger! (Is there another kind?) A prop strike on a small full size aircraft can destroy the prop, plane and motor in seconds. It can literally tear the engine from its mounts. I know Daryl likes to fly with a very aft CG, but even he couldn't handle an RV4 missing its engine. I've seen videos of single engine fighters lose an engine due to a single bird strike, and I'm not talking about a vulture or some other 8' span bird. Seagulls do plenty of damage and they stink when cooked in a jet engine. Pilots really don't like it when their F16's become gliders. They have an inverse L/D. George Voss -----Original Message----- From: Martin Usher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:57 PM To: soaring@airage.com Subject: Re: [RCSE] Subject: RC and airports ... -- and I suspect that a small model going into a large jet engine would disappear without trace (they test for this sort of thing -- you can't have a plane exploding and falling out of the sky because an engine ingested some debris). RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
