No Tsunami was explained here before..it had a flap problem while returning from the races.

MA II had apparent structural failure…which may have resulted due to prop governor failure AFAIK.

Pond Racer was destroyed due to engine fire and dangerously installed valve.

Super Corsair had fire too but pilot parachuted safely.

Those are very rare incidents…unfortunately most of them fatal especially happened to scratch built racers.

Dont look to much differant to the Miss Ashley

http://images.google.co.uk/images?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&rlz=1T4TSEA_en-GBGB304GB304&q=Mustang%20miss%20ashley&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

Gary Lewitz’s naca scooped Miss Ashley has some similarities.

The main difference in all my designs vs. WW II byrds is that my kites are much much smaller. Ts II was different than the one on top.

And here I think you have your answer. Tsunami was sadly lost in a fatal accident not exactly related to it´s design (IIRC) but it failed miserably to live up to it´s designers hopes on the race course. The above is from memory since I was heavily interested in Reno racers in 1990-1998, so I might have something wrong.

When RareBear got the 528 MPH world record, I remember reading at the time, that this was just as fast as any piston engined aircraft was likely to go due to propeller efficency at high speed. Now, I´m not an expert on these things, but I think your first stop would be to design a propeller that can cope with such high speeds, have it installed on RareBear and have a go at the 528 MPH record. If she betters it with your propeller, then design a new aircraft behind the prop and smash the record in a big time.

At the end of the day, all such record attemts need to have a supurb engine running great. As has been seen with RareBear, that is not always the case. Getting the right combination of engine, airframe and propeller is going to empty your wallet really, really fast. And when you think you have got it just right for the big day, one of the three is going to let you down big time!

If you have the time, energy and a bottomless pit of money, go for it. Be prepare for a big disappointment though. Messing around with an unknown airframe, unknown engine and unknown propeller is going to be expensive!

I also think this has a change, but like I stated above…far beyond my purse’s cubature !

I recall Tsunami did one pass at 541 mph in Reno while trying for the 3 km record.

Tailplane blanking by the main wing at certain AoA looks like a real possibility

Are you mixing up the TS II and “Roadrunner” ? I added an older R3-A…the original design and a new 2-seater version ( just in case a customer needs a jet pilot to teach how to fly the vehicle ).

i would certainly like to see more on your aircraft 🙂

is the tigershark loosely based on a mustang?

It is a Mustang concept with all ammo and guns away…like Tsunami was.