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Follow The Traveling Engine!
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Back from our trip
Alright guys and girls! We're back from our cruise out of Port Canaveral and the TE made it's visit to the Kennedy Space Center Friday.
Photos coming soon! Hope you all like the shots... the weather cooperated for us
Packaging up the engine today to send to Jason in Neenah, WI.
Greg & Nicholas
Photos coming soon! Hope you all like the shots... the weather cooperated for us
Packaging up the engine today to send to Jason in Neenah, WI.
Greg & Nicholas
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The CEF TE Visits the Kennedy Space Center
Photos from the TE's visit to KSC. But first, some preliminary and interesting formalities from Wikipedia:
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers, and is NASA's Center of Excellence for launch and payload processing systems. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of human spaceflight since December 1968. Launch operations for the Project Mercury, Project Gemini all the numerous Saturn/Apollo missions, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center and managed by KSC.
Located on Merritt Island, Florida, the center is north-northwest of Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic Ocean.
There are about 700 facilities grouped across the center's 144,000 acres. Among the unique facilities at KSC are the 525 ft tall Vehicle Assembly Building (the VAB) for stacking NASA's largest rockets, Operations and Checkout Building which houses the astronaut crew quarters, and 3-mile-long Shuttle Landing Facility.
Nicholas and I were honored and humbled to host the TE here in Central Florida. We put 3 runs on her for a total of about 12 minutes with our high RPM being recorded around 19,000 with the 5x3 prop. We were using Cox 25% nitro fuel. There's an engine run video on the previous page of this thread.
Long live the traveling engine and the CEF!
Greg & Nicholas
(Sorry for some of the engine pics lack of focus!)
The TE Tee Dee .049 with my small .09 collection
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers, and is NASA's Center of Excellence for launch and payload processing systems. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of human spaceflight since December 1968. Launch operations for the Project Mercury, Project Gemini all the numerous Saturn/Apollo missions, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center and managed by KSC.
Located on Merritt Island, Florida, the center is north-northwest of Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic Ocean.
There are about 700 facilities grouped across the center's 144,000 acres. Among the unique facilities at KSC are the 525 ft tall Vehicle Assembly Building (the VAB) for stacking NASA's largest rockets, Operations and Checkout Building which houses the astronaut crew quarters, and 3-mile-long Shuttle Landing Facility.
Nicholas and I were honored and humbled to host the TE here in Central Florida. We put 3 runs on her for a total of about 12 minutes with our high RPM being recorded around 19,000 with the 5x3 prop. We were using Cox 25% nitro fuel. There's an engine run video on the previous page of this thread.
Long live the traveling engine and the CEF!
Greg & Nicholas
(Sorry for some of the engine pics lack of focus!)
The TE Tee Dee .049 with my small .09 collection
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Re: Follow The Traveling Engine!
Fantastic report. I can't think of a better place to show off the Traveling Cox Tee Dee .049. Maybe we should try alcohol, LOX, and castor oil. Call it Redstone Model Engine Fuel
Thanks Greg and Nick.
Rusty
Thanks Greg and Nick.
Rusty
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Re: Follow The Traveling Engine!
Well it sure has been to some very interesting places and this is another , glad to see ya'll got to run the engine also and to take it on vacation !! O what more fun could there bee . Good fun guys . Eric
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You're welcome guys. We were honored to have a chance with it.
Greg & Nick
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Re: Follow The Traveling Engine!
Who would like to see the Traveling Engine TD .049 go on another tour? It's sitting here in the arctic north and could head south at any time!!
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Sure! Lets get it going again! Sign up here: https://www.coxengineforum.com/t5562-the-traveling-engine-sign-up
Re: Follow The Traveling Engine!
I could do it again. I've built three planes that it could go in since the first time round. Besides, I forgot to write anything in notebook the first time.
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Re: Follow The Traveling Engine!
So I added some goodies to the kit. I added a pressure backplate, bored and polished venturi, two GloBee flat coil heads, and a red Valentine spinner.
I bored the Venturi to 9/64 then polished to a mirror finish.
I replaced the used head with a NOS high compression head.
I also replaced the piston. There were stress fractures starting around the top of the piston where the ball socket base is. It was in need of a reset but it was too late for that.
So it’s ready for its second tour. Get signed up!!!!!
Whoever wants it I can send it out.
I bored the Venturi to 9/64 then polished to a mirror finish.
I replaced the used head with a NOS high compression head.
I also replaced the piston. There were stress fractures starting around the top of the piston where the ball socket base is. It was in need of a reset but it was too late for that.
So it’s ready for its second tour. Get signed up!!!!!
Whoever wants it I can send it out.
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Re: Follow The Traveling Engine!
Where do we sign up at? I'm in.
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Where do we sign up at? I'm in.
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Re: Follow The Traveling Engine!
Amazing Jason, simply amazing. I love the whole presentation as I do with all your offerings. But I am so unworthy of that engine. I'm waiting for a plain old .049 maybe slightly scrubbed up and neatly packaged Babe Bee.
Bob
Bob
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Re: Follow The Traveling Engine!
batjac wrote:Where do we sign up at? I'm in.
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Sign up here
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Re: Follow The Traveling Engine!
The TE 1 is back on the road. It arrived at it's destination today in MI.
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Re: Follow The Traveling Engine!
And so, the Traveling Engine returns for some more laps around the hill. It (and I) enjoyed much friendlier conditions this time around, flying through the dead calm of a Springtime Missouri evening...with nary a snow drift in sight.
Once again bolted to the pylon of my 2M Bird of Time Sailplane, it was launched with a GoPro camera on each wingtip of the old model. This was a bit of 'the spur of the moment' as the winds suddenly settled just as the sun was going down, and I was losing my light by the time everything got charged up.
Still, we took our shot, and got some pretty good footage for the effort, and may try to put in some more flights before the engine is mailed to it's next fan. I intend to make up one video, featuring both the W.S.T.E. and it's .049 sibling, and post it on both threads following these castor slingers.
In the meantime, here are some still captures from the GoPros.
Have I mentioned that I love this hobby??!!
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The Traveling Engine and 2M B.O.T. are almost invisible against the clutter of my very crowded shop.
"Hello old friend!"
Cruising high over the hill. The folks over in the subdivision are probably once again wondering what the strange old guy across the valley has going on.
Coming back Home.
No 'drift diving' on this touch down.
Once again thanks to Jason for putting this old Tee Dee 'On the Road Again'!
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Video of the Traveling Engine's previous visit to the hill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-rkwNsEq3s&t=3s
Once again bolted to the pylon of my 2M Bird of Time Sailplane, it was launched with a GoPro camera on each wingtip of the old model. This was a bit of 'the spur of the moment' as the winds suddenly settled just as the sun was going down, and I was losing my light by the time everything got charged up.
Still, we took our shot, and got some pretty good footage for the effort, and may try to put in some more flights before the engine is mailed to it's next fan. I intend to make up one video, featuring both the W.S.T.E. and it's .049 sibling, and post it on both threads following these castor slingers.
In the meantime, here are some still captures from the GoPros.
Have I mentioned that I love this hobby??!!
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The Traveling Engine and 2M B.O.T. are almost invisible against the clutter of my very crowded shop.
"Hello old friend!"
Cruising high over the hill. The folks over in the subdivision are probably once again wondering what the strange old guy across the valley has going on.
Coming back Home.
No 'drift diving' on this touch down.
Once again thanks to Jason for putting this old Tee Dee 'On the Road Again'!
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Video of the Traveling Engine's previous visit to the hill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-rkwNsEq3s&t=3s
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Re: Follow The Traveling Engine!
I remember that first flight and i thought to myself (That man is a dedicated crazy) LOL , I still got a laugh out of that big glove coming around to do a tweek on the needle before launch. Man it just don't get no better . Thanks Kim !!
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getback wrote: I remember that first flight and i thought to myself (That man is a dedicated crazy) LOL , I still got a laugh out of that big glove coming around to do a tweek on the needle before launch. Man it just don't get no better . Thanks Kim !!
Thanks Man!!!!
I was mumbling a couple names for myself as I trudged through the snow...but the shop SURE felt good when I got back to it!
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Can't forget the original Traveling Engine! Looks like it enjoyed another visit at Kim's. Kim, you take some of the best pictures, can't get enough of the aerial shots! Thanks again!
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Looks like that replacement piston it working well. Have any issues getting it running and holding a needle setting?
Great pictures as always.
Great pictures as always.
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Jason_WI wrote:Looks like that replacement piston it working well. Have any issues getting it running and holding a needle setting?
Great pictures as always.
It ran great Jason! I haven't counted the flights yet, but think there were five in in total before it got too dark, and the Tee Dee ran all the fuel out each time. After the needle was set on the first flight, all following were just fueled and chucked into the the air.
Thanks again for this fun project!!!
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Re: Follow The Traveling Engine!
Okay, I currently have the .049 Travelling Engine. If all goes well, I'm going to fly it tomorrow on my Skyray 110. I put the engine on my trusty Redneck Engine Test Stand to mount the APC 5.7x3 prop I plan to use and do a quick needle set before I go out tomorrow. Prop tracks perfectly. A quick clip to prove it really did run here.
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Way to go Mark bee looking for the vid. hope things go well !!
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*** SIGH ***
The wind was kicking up when I was at the field, and I didn't want to risk it on a 5 1/2 ounce plane. I'm only flying over grass, but I still didn't want to risk stuffing it on an upwind gust. I'll try again soon.
The Scaredy Mark
The wind was kicking up when I was at the field, and I didn't want to risk it on a 5 1/2 ounce plane. I'm only flying over grass, but I still didn't want to risk stuffing it on an upwind gust. I'll try again soon.
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