Post by Galvin on Dec 10, 2004 13:45:27 GMT -7
I went by the Me-262 project hangar the other day to talk to one of the guys who is working there and with whom I had made friends. I ended up helping him make part of an inboard flap for one of the airplanes so I can now say I have at least an infintesimal part in the project.
The first airplane has been flown again and has been pretty much debugged compared to the problems it has had in the past.
Exact replicas of the landing gear actuators have been CNC'ed as new parts and work perfectly compared to the ones made by the initiators of the project down in Texas. It was found that the CASA jet trainer designed in Spain by Willi Messerschmitt back in the fifties and powered by two Turbomeca Marbore dog whistles used an identical actuator so a ready pattern for the new ones was actually available.
I sat down with the owner of the project (Hammer) and he related the electrical woes that had been plaguing the project but which are now essentially solved aside from one of the generator control modules tending to fuse itself into a formless lump now and again. The electrical system design is basically a copy of the one in the Cessna A-37 "Dragonfly", the attack version of the USAF's venerable "Tweet", and it seems to be working out well.
(Regarding the company that intially started this project down in Texas: The Texas Airplane Company has completed and successfully flown its first Nakajima "Oscar" replica. They also ground looped it and tore the gear off. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board.)
The first airplane has been flown again and has been pretty much debugged compared to the problems it has had in the past.
Exact replicas of the landing gear actuators have been CNC'ed as new parts and work perfectly compared to the ones made by the initiators of the project down in Texas. It was found that the CASA jet trainer designed in Spain by Willi Messerschmitt back in the fifties and powered by two Turbomeca Marbore dog whistles used an identical actuator so a ready pattern for the new ones was actually available.
I sat down with the owner of the project (Hammer) and he related the electrical woes that had been plaguing the project but which are now essentially solved aside from one of the generator control modules tending to fuse itself into a formless lump now and again. The electrical system design is basically a copy of the one in the Cessna A-37 "Dragonfly", the attack version of the USAF's venerable "Tweet", and it seems to be working out well.
(Regarding the company that intially started this project down in Texas: The Texas Airplane Company has completed and successfully flown its first Nakajima "Oscar" replica. They also ground looped it and tore the gear off. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board.)