Official Freewing 90mm F-4 Phantom II Thread

[Hugh Wiedman]

A quick video from last week on my F-4 Blue Angel with the 12 blade 1835 Kv inrunner. Love that fan in this bird and have it in my other F-4 as well. I'm flying it on an SMC 6200 mah 40C and get 4 minutes of useful throttle time. He she is with a few close friends!

[locharrow]

Got a great deal on my parts for the F4 so I'll have to get cracking and posh up the rest of the bits to match the new stuff...never ends !! :punch::f4:

[locharrow]

Black Friday may have some deals so :fingers_crossed:

[Hugh Wiedman]

see how much my three kids love me coming up to Christmas. If they repay the amount they have "borrowed" over the years I'll be able to by a new full size Cessna! :punch::f4:

Don't Hold your Breath. If my kids paid me back I'd be cruising the Caribbean in a yacht (large enough to have a 200 foot grass runway on top so I can fly whenever I want-maybe just one of the new Ford Class Carriers), with enough servants to address my every whim.

[locharrow]

The victim need a new fuselage, cockpit and nose cone ...the wings and tail feathers are all good so we will see how much my three kids love me coming up to Christmas. If they repay the amount they have "borrowed" over the years I'll be able to by a new full size Cessna! :punch::f4:

[Elbee]

:Totaled...pure pilot error...:

LA. Pilot error or not, I feel your pain. Knowing your skills, I figure you'll check ride the new Phantom and rebuild the crash victim. Best as always, LB

[GliderGuy]

Ouch…Locharrow. Sorry to hear that.

Just depends…You will weigh the cost of parts against a totally new bird. And, are you able to devote the time involved? Sometimes I repair and sometimes not. If it is an old airframe (lots of hours), I more strongly consider treating myself to a NIB bird. However, if it is a relatively new bird and not too costly for parts, I will repair it.

Let us know what you decide.

One additional thing to consider…I rarely reuse receivers that have been in a crash. Just my thing. Unless I know the impact was not to hard, I will put in a new receiver. A lesson I learned a long time ago and have always followed. Receivers are too inexpensive to risk flying a potentially damaged receiver.

-GG

[locharrow]

:sob::sob::sob: Totaled............... pure :face_with_symbols_o pilot error ...got too far out and lost the plot. Thought I had it recovered at least three times heading towards me but it would not gather speed, just mushed into a another direction, finally went below tree height so I cut the motor. Fortunately it crashed into a field beside the paddock of a friends house. Naturally I suffered at his "jokes" about my piloting skills. So.... get the parts and repair it, or, and more likely. give the new one an airing. :face_with_symbols_o :face_with_symbols_o :thumbsdown::f4: :cry:

[locharrow]

So anyway ..I'm thinking about converting the tail hook into a ploughshare .................

This is normal after a football game! The underside of the plane needs power washing but would that be good for the electrics...........anybody ??? :stuck_out_tongue_wi :punch::f4:

[jasmith41]

Had the same issue with cont beeping esc, receiver, or whatever it was and I determined that I left the battery plugged in too long after calibrating the ESC...
I repeated the procedure and unplugged batt as soon as the initial throttle calibration was done and the cont beeping issue went away...

[jasmith41]

Had the same issue with cont beeping esc, receiver, or whatever it was and I determined that I left the battery plugged in too long after calibrating the ESC...
I repeated the procedure and unplugged batt as soon as the initial throttle calibration was done and the cont beeping issue went away...

Marc, $39 F4...??? I'll take it. Freewing or E-Flite...? Probably be there Thurs AM if weather doesn't suck too much...😆

[locharrow]

Totally agree with HW there. You can always buy a second one and finish it up right. But this airplane was never a pretty pony and is just too much fun to fly!

Have a new one on the dining room table but ?? ........... will it look any better in a vertical corkscrew climb ???????:punch::f4:

[nuts-n-volts]

Totally agree with HW there. You can always buy a second one and finish it up right. But this airplane was never a pretty pony and is just too much fun to fly!

[Hugh Wiedman]

Right guys...something controversial ...The F4 is flying great but looks like :poop:....what do I do fly it as is or take it to bits and refurbish ?? (big job) :punch::f4:

My 2 cents, just keep flying the :poop: out of it! I have no "jitters" when it comes to flying my camo F4, even though it does have a few minor painting/graphics/detailed cockpit work, but when I take out my virtually identical F4 Blue Angel, I always have this stupid voice in the back of my head saying "Now don't screw this flight up since you worked so hard on the repaint". As long as it "Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking", all is good! Besides, the real F-4's after years of combat tended to look a bit ragged as well, so just call it "In Flight Weathering".

[locharrow]

Right guys...something controversial ...The F4 is flying great but looks like :poop:....what do I do fly it as is or take it to bits and refurbish ?? (big job) :punch::f4:

[locharrow]

Doesn't get any better...great day ...no footballers or dogwalkers ...pure white sky ... great plane ...three flawless fights. Something has to go wrong soon ...surely................. .:punch::f4:

[locharrow]

Nope....don't need 8s ....just .back from a couple of good flights and 6s does the job fine. If you want speed take it way up and point the nose straight down for a couple of hundred feet and level out smoothly... :poop: my pants when it passed me! ....FMS fan sounds great, specially when it is winding down coming into land. :punch::f4:

[locharrow]

:face_with_symbols_o :face_with_symbols_o Hugh don't tempt me...still have an empty F4 and 4s batteries lying around New esc and motor and I'd be good to go 8s ...............I was happy up until you posted... :worried: :punch::f4:

[Hugh Wiedman]

thanks for your feedback guys! I crashed mine a few months ago and my garage looks so sad without the F4, I really loved that plane. This is going to be my Christmas gift!

If you have sufficient batteries for an 8S system, the 8S F-4 is only $60 more than the 6S system ($659 vs $599). For that small difference (especially for Christmas) I would recommend the 8S system assuming you don't have to buy a bunch of new batteries. I put the 6S 12 blade inrunner in both my F-4's only because they originally came with a somewhat underpowered 6S 1750Kv 9 blade outrunner and I fly off grass and thought the 12 blade gave me better 0-60 start than the 9 blade (maybe a misnomer?). As much as I like the 12 blade inrunner, it is a bit pricy. The stock 6S comes with the 9 blade 1900 Kv inrunner which is sufficient, especially if you fly off asphalt. I wouldn't go to an ARF just to put the 6S 12 blade in, as that will end up costing you about $797 all in with the ESC, so for that cost, the 8S is a MUCH better option. That 8S will leave nothing to complain about if you're so inclined!

[Madness]

thanks for your feedback guys! I crashed mine a few months ago and my garage looks so sad without the F4, I really loved that plane. This is going to be my Christmas gift!