What did you fly today?

[Aros]

Nothing like belly landing a giant scale F-16 on pavement.

[DCORSAIR]

Sorry to see that, what a bummer, do you know why the gear failed to come down?

[Aros]

Thanks man. Looks like one of the ball link pushrods that connects to a portion of the port side main gear sheared clean off. The pushrod then jammed in the bay and I think that's why it couldn't extend. Have an email in with HSDJetsUSA support so hopefully they can help me figure it out. Could have been worse!

[Hoomi]

Flying out of that parking lot, there wasn't much in the way of grass you could have bellied it into, to soften the landing, either.

Glad the damage was minimal, but still a bummer!

[Aros]

Thanks Hoomi, yeah still a bummer. Looks like a faulty servo was the genesis of the issue.

[Elbee]

Aros , Um, um, um..that's sucky. Best, LB

[Valkpilot]

Thanks man. Looks like one of the ball link pushrods that connects to a portion of the port side main gear sheared clean off. The pushrod then jammed in the bay and I think that's why it couldn't extend. Have an email in with HSDJetsUSA support so hopefully they can help me figure it out. Could have been worse!

Why are you still using pushrods? Or can't you find an electric replacement?

[Aros]

Why are you still using pushrods? Or can't you find an electric replacement?

Not sure I get your question?

[Valkpilot]

Not sure I get your question?

I assumed that you would have replaced the old style pushrod retracts with something like this:
https://www.motionrc.com/products/fr...-shafts-type-b

[rifleman_btx]

I might load up a couple of batteries and fly my CZ T28 today to celebrate my 42 years today on this planet.

[Aros]

Happy birthday rifleman_btx !

[rifleman_btx]

Thank you brother

[rifleman_btx]

the other thing I want to do is get me a HP stinger 90mm

[BluesDragon]

I might load up a couple of batteries and fly my CZ T28 today to celebrate my 42 years today on this planet.

Happy 42nd!! Best wishes for a fantastic day!

[Elbee]

.....celebrate my 42 years today on this planet.

RM, Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday dear RiflemanBTX, Happy Birthday to YOU. Whew.....Best, LB

[rifleman_btx]

Thanks fellas

[DCORSAIR]

I might load up a couple of batteries and fly my CZ T28 today to celebrate my 42 years today on this planet.

Happy birthday to you, 42, Wow, your still young.

[Hugh Wiedman]

the other thing I want to do is get me a HP stinger 90mm

Maybe a little late, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY rifleman_btx .

I definitely recommend the Stinger 90, one of my favorite jets. It flies just as well and easy as the Avanti, but a little larger and faster. The only difference in flight between the 2 that I have found is the Stinger will knife edge, but only with full rudder throw and almost full power, where the Avanti will do it at 80% throttle and still climb if you want it to. I use a RT 6250 and get almost 5 minutes of very aggressive flying out of it. On any of my "jet" days, I always take either the Avanti or Stinger to make the first flight of the day and just horse it around with every maneuver I have to get my confidence up before flying the others. I'm confident you will love flying it. With that said, I only have 2 complaints about it:

1) Personally, I didn't like the white/red scheme as it was a little difficult for me to always see it's orientation with, but since you're 42, you shouldn't have a problem with that so that's why I repainted it completely and had Callie do some custom graphics for me. But this may not be an issue for you, and if it is, it's a good frame to redo.

2) I hated having to plug/un-plug 6 servo wires on the wings (Aileron/Flap/Gear on each wing half) each time I took it out, since I remove the wings so I have plenty of room in the truck to bring at least 3 other jets with it. The Stinger is one of the "older" models that does not have the wing ribbons and after about 50 flights, I could see the servo connections were getting stressed out (and I'd about had it putting it together each time). I rewired everything using locking 5 pin connectors and now I have 2 simple connections that lock in place when I assemble/disassemble the wings. If you leave the wings attached, then this won't be an issue for you, but if you do, sooner or later you'll get fed up with the existing connections and may want to change it like I did.

With those 2 issues taken care of for me at least, it quickly became one of my favorites.

[rifleman_btx]

Thank you, and sounds great to me, it's what I'm looking for.

[rifleman_btx]

Happy birthday to you, 42, Wow, your still young.

thank you, and it got alittle late so ended up night flying the RV8 tonight. We had a storm roll through and knock out power and minor wind damage around the place. But once the storm passed it made for perfect weather to fly.