Because the turbine produces as much as 89 pounds of thrust it needs lots of intake air. Here you see how the NASA scoops are integrated into the fuselage’s sides.
Up front you’re looking at the air trap center, fuel pump right, ECU left, PowerBox Royal to the rear, the PowerBox gyro sitting to the right of the PowerBox system.
offered, which is not enough to buy a new car, but enough to provide Bragging Rights to the winners. Red Flag provides nice awards too, for those that place in the winners’ circle.” As I learned, “Red Flag has four classes, Scale Pro-Aerobatics, Sport Pro-Aerobatics, Individual Free-Style, and one for Team Demo Flying. The competition’s maneuvers come from a sequence list—some of them are mandatory, and some are by pilot choice. Aircraft takeoffs are not judged, but landing scores get awarded. The event only allows for a maximum of two airplanes in the air at a time. Further, this competition is a Saturday thru Tuesday event, with all awards given Tuesday night as part of the Red Flag award dinner.” Ray Labonte was Co-Contest Director for Red Flag. His job was to help with logistics, scoring, and he sits on the event’s Board of Directors. The Board makes initial decisions. He detailed for us exactly how Red Flag is organized. It was underscored to me that because this is a second-year event, the organizers are still working the bugs out of the overall format, but rcflyernews.tumblr.com
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