F-104
F104 taxi tests at Deelen Airforce base in May 1999
Frans Feyen (with transmitter) is builder and pilot of the F104
Putting the brake parachute in the F104 takes some time
Flight preparations of the Lockheed F104 first of August 1999
Take of Lockheed F104
In flight
Approach of the Lockheed F104
Touch down of the Lockheed F104
The Lockheed F104 at a local event in the Netherlands
information of the Lockheed F104
Weight : 20 kg
Length : 3.5 meter
wingspan : 1.34 meter
Radio : Futaba
Functions: Elevator / Aileron / Throttle / Rudder&nose gear /
Retracts / Breaks / Flaps slats / break parachute.
Full composite: in about 30 moulds
Fuselage: Glas/honeycomb sandwich
Wing/stabs: carbon/balsa sandwich
Tanks: 2 Plasma bags, total 4 litre
Motor: AMT Olympus made
and designed by AMT Netherlands in 1996.
This model is made in the scale 1:5 at 100 % scale also the airfoil.
The Olympus engine, designed and produced by Bennie van de Goor, founder of AMT Netherlands