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    A friend sent this to me. It would be a neat RC model if the cockpit wasn't so large.

    "Cri-Cri" World's Smallest Twin Engine Airplane.
    Noted French pilot Nicolas Charmont has installed 2 AMT Olympus
    turbines in his Cri-Cri together with AMT on-board automatic
    start-up units and individual EDT's. (AMT is a company from Netherlands.)
    The Cri -Cri weighs 170 Kg (375 lbs), and should have enhanced
    performance with over 36 Kg (80 lbs) of thrust available.
    Top speed at this flight was 240 k m/hour (150 mph). Flying with
    only one engine the speed is still 160 km/hour (100 mph).
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    Able to leap tall tales in a single groan.

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    He is a very brave man obviously . Flying in one engine
    If i only was so smart yesterday as my wife is today

    Minding your own biz is great virtue, but situation awareness saves lives - Dok

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    • #3
      Originally posted by RustyBattleship View Post
      A friend sent this to me. It would be a neat RC model if the cockpit wasn't so large.

      "Cri-Cri" World's Smallest Twin Engine Airplane.
      Noted French pilot Nicolas Charmont has installed 2 AMT Olympus
      turbines in his Cri-Cri together with AMT on-board automatic
      start-up units and individual EDT's. (AMT is a company from Netherlands.)
      The Cri -Cri weighs 170 Kg (375 lbs), and should have enhanced
      performance with over 36 Kg (80 lbs) of thrust available.
      Top speed at this flight was 240 k m/hour (150 mph). Flying with
      only one engine the speed is still 160 km/hour (100 mph).
      I've seen the twin-piston jobbie at air displays where its party piece is to take-off from a pick-up truck, fly an aerobatic display and then land back on the same vehicle. Psst! Dick, I have it on good authority that if the truck is unavailable it can operate from runways!
      Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by glyn View Post
        I've seen the twin-piston jobbie at air displays where its party piece is to take-off from a pick-up truck, fly an aerobatic display and then land back on the same vehicle. Psst! Dick, I have it on good authority that if the truck is unavailable it can operate from runways!
        Yeah, but that's no fun. The pick-em-up acts like a catapault so the plane can get up to flying speed.

        Hmmm, I wonder how one of those little things would hold up to the stresses of a catapault on the USS Nimitz?
        Able to leap tall tales in a single groan.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by RustyBattleship View Post
          Yeah, but that's no fun. The pick-em-up acts like a catapault so the plane can get up to flying speed.

          Hmmm, I wonder how one of those little things would hold up to the stresses of a catapault on the USS Nimitz?
          On a free take-off it would, I imagine, be at a couple of hundred feet altitude by the time it crossed the end of the flight deck:)
          Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.

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          • #6
            Why?

            I love microlight craft. I don't see the advantage here
            Where's the bloody gin? An army marches on its liver, not its ruddy stomach.

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