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[farmflyer]

Still havn't flown the popwing but on the cg 2 1/4oz in the nose to balance with an admiral 1300 and 3 oz with the admiral 1100. That is neutral to slightly nose heavy at the center of the cg range. I'm also going to put some 3mm carbon fiber tube on each side of the battery cut out the nose is really flimsey there that should help keep it from breaking off so easily.

[Flygirl]

They do slow up Pauly, yep! Two of us in our little club have the Assassin 37 inch wings and my friend Shane who has the other one routinely catches his and then throws it again in one motion like it is an RC boomerang. But he's nuts.... Hahaha! We've done combat with them by putting steamers on the end of the wings but ya know, when you are trying to hit each other it's almost impossible to do so. Must be a law of the universe. ;)

[Pauly]

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Wings are kind of touchy to balance I've found FF. I have a Crash Test Hobbies 37 inch Assassin and it took about 6 or 7 tries to get it right. Luckily those Assassins are pretty much indestructible although every time it crunched into the ground I cringed. I didn't have any lead weights with me so there is about $2 of quarters riding in the front. LOL! My friend Jeff said it was like any other hobby in that if it doesn't work you just end up throwing money at it. Ha!!! Anyways, a tail heavy wing is just about uncontrollable so add some lead (or quarters!) to get it a little nose heavy if you can.

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LOL Great advice Flygirl! The Neptune has a very small battery compartment that's suppose to hold the battery,ESC and receiver (Not gonna happen). Gotta do a few modifications when I get the chance. It looks like it will be fun to fly from some the videos I've seen and pretty fast and can be a slow flyer as well.

[farmflyer]

Flygirl thanks for the information I'll do that before I fly it. The foam seems like it will be tuff so maybe I'll have a couple of chances to get it right.

[Flygirl]

I'm not very confident in the cg either. With the recommended 1100 3s it's way tail heavy and with a 1300 3s it's close to the aft cg mark. I want a near calm day to try the maiden I don't want to fight any wind in case it is tail heavy. I really don't know what to expect from it. There doesn't seem to be a lot of information on them.

Wings are kind of touchy to balance I've found FF. I have a Crash Test Hobbies 37 inch Assassin and it took about 6 or 7 tries to get it right. Luckily those Assassins are pretty much indestructible although every time it crunched into the ground I cringed. I didn't have any lead weights with me so there is about $2 of quarters riding in the front. LOL! My friend Jeff said it was like any other hobby in that if it doesn't work you just end up throwing money at it. Ha!!! Anyways, a tail heavy wing is just about uncontrollable so add some lead (or quarters!) to get it a little nose heavy if you can.

[Pauly]

A wing will surely be different. A guy at our club has a outlaw wing and we've clocked it at over 150 MPH many times with radar. It's something to see.

[farmflyer]

I'm not very confident in the cg either. With the recommended 1100 3s it's way tail heavy and with a 1300 3s it's close to the aft cg mark. I want a near calm day to try the maiden I don't want to fight any wind in case it is tail heavy. I really don't know what to expect from it. There doesn't seem to be a lot of information on them.

[Pauly]

I still haven't had the chance to maiden mine either. We have had rain off and on and my kids have been with me and I still need to do some creative cutting and fitting all the hardware in the Neptune. Winds haven't been so bad. From what I'm told it can handle a good wind.

[farmflyer]

I still haven't got the maiden in on my popwing I'm waiting for calm winds. As soon as that day comes I'll let you know how it went.

[Grossman56]

Cool Pauly! Good luck with it!!

Grossman56

[Pauly]

I've got the Neptune set up and now I gotta figure out how to fit all the hardware in that small compartment. Yorkie gave me very helpful tips on how to fit it all in. Now the problem is getting the time to go out and maiden it. More to come later.

[Flygirl]

As I understand it all the Chinese factory's shut down for Chinese New Year apparently for several days. In MRC's case and I'm sure other distributors they had to guess in advance how much extra stock to buy to cover this period. They outsold what they predicted therefore the shortage. Also if you havnt heard Dynam will be shutting down for a while to move to a new plant.

Wow....! Missed that one FF! Thanks!

[Pauly]

From what I'm told Dynam will be better after there move. Batteries hopefully will be back in stock soon. I need to replenish my supply.

[farmflyer]

As I understand it all the Chinese factory's shut down for Chinese New Year apparently for several days. In MRC's case and I'm sure other distributors they had to guess in advance how much extra stock to buy to cover this period. They outsold what they predicted therefore the shortage. Also if you havnt heard Dynam will be shutting down for a while to move to a new plant.

[Flygirl]

It took a little time to build you actually have to install everything but I enjoyed it. I'll have to wait till MRC gets batteries back in stock to fly it. Waiting not a big deal with winds sustained at 25to35 gusting to 40 every day it should start letting up around mid June then I'll get serious about flying again.

Hey you won FF! Cool!!!!!!! You've got winds, we've got rain..... :(

What's with batteries? Seems like everywhere there is a shortage. Did I miss something on my sabbatical?

[farmflyer]

It took a little time to build you actually have to install everything but I enjoyed it. I'll have to wait till MRC gets batteries back in stock to fly it. Waiting not a big deal with winds sustained at 25to35 gusting to 40 every day it should start letting up around mid June then I'll get serious about flying again.

[Pauly]

Awesome to hear farmflyer. I got my Neptune, but haven't had time to do anything to it. I worked a little today and went out to the flying field and got some stick time in. I do however need to order some receivers and in need of some more batteries. I cant wait to get it together and fly it.

[farmflyer]

Ok never mind I have it straightened out total brain fart moment 😔

[farmflyer]

Got my popwing today and assembled. I'm using a dx6 and a spectrum 4 channel reciever. I've tried setting elevon and elevon-b I can get the elevator to operate correct but the ailerons are always reversed. If I reverse either channel it swaps elevator and aileron on the control stick. Left aileron is pluged into aileron on reciever and right aileron is pluged into elevator on reciever like the transmitter manual showed. Hopefully someone can straighten me out.

[Aros]

Awesome! Looking forward to your flight reports!