RV-Jet?

[rocketman1988]

"...If you want to play around down low like the military does, you can't lift enough fuel..."

So maybe we need an RV tanker, too!

[N941WR]

Originally Posted by Mel

Another reason for tricycle gear on a jet was proven with the original "tail dragging" ME-262. Without prop blast on the rudder, direction control is minimal during early take-off roll. This would also provide a need for nosewheel steering.

That was also on my mind when I was doodling the options. However, I have always wondered how much of that was the gear geometry?

I should have known someone would know that story.

[N941WR]

Originally Posted by rocketman1988

"...If you want to play around down low like the military does, you can't lift enough fuel..."

So maybe we need an RV tanker, too!

I wonder how the Operating Limitations would read for that!

[airguy]

Originally Posted by N941WR

I wonder how the Operating Limitations would read for that!

Something along the lines of "Warning - do not use this product."

[gereed75]

I know this is a fanciful fun thread, but a jet is about the most opposite thing to Van think that you can come up with.

[David Paule]

Have to admit that I did think of converting an RV-8(A) to jet power. It would have had two jet engines mounted outboard of the fuselage on struts like a Cri-Cri. Bigger engines, of course, and sized to be about the same weight as the current recip ones.



It was fun to think about it and hopefully that's as far as it goes.

Dave

[Mudfly]

I like that idea Dave
While building my wings I thought it would be cool if someone, not me, mounted two small jet engines on the top of the wings like the HondaJet..,or if they preferred the 737 look, under the wings.

[akabud]

Maybe something like the BD-10. Supersonic!

[RV8JD]

I still like the ViperJet.

https://youtu.be/ox90QXFGpHI

[Ralph Inkster]

"Mudfly I like that idea Dave
While building my wings I thought it would be cool if someone, not me, mounted two small jet engines on the top of the wings like the HondaJet..,or if they preferred the 737 look, under the wings."

Yeh, a RV-262!