THE TWIN JETS

As Multiplex announced the release of the Twin-Jet, the follow up to the popular Pico-Jet, Paul and myself decided to have our first "dabble" with the electric side of flying. Graham had done electric flying previously and gave Paul and myself some pointers in the electric direction. We both purchased our Twin Jets from different sources within a day of each other and proceeded to assemble our new toys. Paul decided that he wanted more than the natural foam look and went with a desert type camouflage with soviet look "red stars". In order to make our dogfights a tad more realistic I went with a two-tone gray USAF looking scheme with a "Tiger Tail" effect..

The Multiplex Twin Jet is an EPP foam plane that comes complete with two 400 motors. On opening the box you are greeted by 1 nose section, 1 fuselage/wing section, 1 rear cockpit section and the twin tails all made in an EPP type foam. These sections glue together quickly using thick cyano and accelerator. Glue in the two motors and two Multiplex MS-x2 mini servos, place all wires in the pre formed channels through the wing and into the fuselage, connect your receiver and speed controller, drop in your battery pack, balance the plane using the pre-formed "nipples", place the cockpit on using the included elastic band and your just about ready to chuck it.

Here are some pictures of our Twin Jets, hopefully we'll get a Guest Twin Jet Gallery up soon, so if you have a Twin Jet or know someone who has one then e-mail Andy a picture with a link if you have one and we'll post it!

Paul's (left) and Andy's Twin Jets just prior to flight.

....and again from a different angle.

A close up of Paul's "Ruski"

and Andy's "Yankee"

.......and some airborne shots

GUEST TWIN JETS

Colin Dyckes' striking red Twin Jet, no problems with visibility here.

And from Denmark comes Mikael Ejberg Pedersen's Twin Jet on finals....

 

..........and about to.......

 

.......touch down.

 

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This fine example is from Kevin Manly

Kevin is from Farnborough, Hants, and is a member of Fleet & District MAC

 

 

Stock Twinjet, straight from the box

Permax S400 with Gunther 5x4.5 props.. Schulze 35A esc.. Airbrushed Tamiya acrylic white and NATO green..

..Jeti 7 channel receiver ..Multiplex MX2 servos with ferrite cores on the leads ..34oz with 7x1900, or 38oz with 8x2400 NiCads

Having read all sorts of horror stories on the newsgroups about radio glitches, receivers needing to be wrapped in kitchen foil, wrong thrust angles, launching difficulties etc., I am pleased to report that my TJ doesn't suffer from any of those problems, and I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone with a bit of experience under their belt.

 

And from Jeff is this Russian look Twin Jet.

 

Rudolph from Austria sent in these pictures of his Twin-Jet

It seems the "Russian Mig-29" look is very popular

Rudolph says it flies well on the Permax 480 motors

Simon Maslen's TJ

 Simon from St Neots decided to break from the traditional camouflage look and

go with a high visibility look, should be easy to see. Simon has also chosen the 480 motor option.

Thomas Stein has also gone with the high visibility look

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