The Bluebird Project

Nice to see Alex in the workshop. Doing what hr does reslly well i might add

I love auto correct

It’s all lies unless we see footage of the ram going up and down Bill

Well done by the way.

What folk don’t see (yet) is just how much kit has been packaged into the boat back in the day, although we jest at times at the “cowboy” nature of some components, in reality the guys did a cracking job making it all fit “after the fact”. I happen to know who ever fitted the Hyd system the first ti...

The Hyd run up was still a success though, I was expecting a LOT more issues than we got in the end (given the sheer complexity of the widgets and various pipes and unions) Mind, given that the hose failure let go at 1600 psi, I was surprised how well contained the mess was... emptying around 5ltrs ...

MLU all the way guys

Cool. Not a fan of the yank kit, cant beat British stuff


My youngest wants to get / build a 3d printer so I will be looking about shortly for a decent kit !

Wouldn’t put five in, more you add the more weight you add, just needs a high KV motor and correct pitch prop. No good spinning the shaft around d if the pitch is wrong you just cavitate and lose the thrust you want. As for batteries, some nice high discharge saddle packs would be the way to go, tur...

Wouldn’t bother with turbine or EDF given its weight... if you go with a high KV brushless motor with a steep pitch prop it should go.

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