Official Freewing 80mm EDF L-39 Albatros Thread

[Joehockey]

Hahah , no I appreciate the real feedback and humor .
Sounds like a rock solid plane.
I was flying the turbine version on real flightl and I dont have any issues flying jets and heavy warbirds but did have some turning issues with the Turbine simulator.
I was surprised but I think my speed was at full throttle.

[Evan D]

Yes, and the wing tip lights should blink. What were they thinking!!!! 😎

[xviper]

Lol
next time can you be more concise and less wordy lol !
glad to hear, and looking foreword to my maiden

How about this ........................... Those long, pointy probes on the wings get caught on my shirt sleeve when I hang the plane up or take it down to go fly.

[DCORSAIR]

Lol
next time can you be more concise and less wordy lol !
glad to hear, and looking foreword to my maiden

Hey, at least its not a rude remark....

The L-39 flies great, its right up there with the best of them, it will do some nice inverted passes thats for sure, no bad habits that I can think of.....

[Joehockey]

Lol
next time can you be more concise and less wordy lol !
glad to hear, and looking foreword to my maiden

[Evan D]

No

[Joehockey]

Any bad habits with this model ?

[Wrthog]

Thanks for the info with the hinges. I am up to 65 flights now on the L39 using the Admiral 6ch RX with gyro and have not needed to trim anything on this plane from day one. I am a giant scale gas warbird guy but the jets are a nice change.

Can I ask what radio? I have lost 5 planes now using admiral rx and my Dx8 gen 2 ! Took them all out of other planes and smashed them with a hammer . Motion says they are fine with DSMX but I can’t get off the runway with this set

[urrl]

[p3arljam]

Thanks for the info with the hinges. I am up to 65 flights now on the L39 using the Admiral 6ch RX with gyro and have not needed to trim anything on this plane from day one. I am a giant scale gas warbird guy but the jets are a nice change.

[RichJ53]

Has anyone had the issue on the elevator hinge where cracks are beginning to separate the foam from the horizontal stabilizer and the elevator?

easy to fix with FoamTac contact glue. put a small bead of glue down inside the hinge and push the parts together about 90 seconds,, this will be stronger than original seam. The plastic hinges are good enough but its nice to have the seam tight which prevents flutter from happening at high speeds

Rich

[RichJ53]

"hinge where cracks are beginning to separate the foam from" easy to fix the elevator hinge line with foamtac contact glue. just put a little bit down inside the hinge line while pushing it tightly together for about 90 seconds that will be better than the original... the plastic hinges are good enough but its nice to have the hinge sealed and this will also prevent any control flutter Rich

[xviper]

Has anyone had the issue on the elevator hinge where cracks are beginning to separate the foam from the horizontal stabilizer and the elevator?

Not so much an "issue" but yes, there are cracks forming. I'm not concerned as there are 2 proper hinges per side anyway.

[p3arljam]

Has anyone had the issue on the elevator hinge where cracks are beginning to separate the foam from the horizontal stabilizer and the elevator?

[Radar-Guy]

Ok. I see the slider function that you are talking about. But when I had the nose wheel steering plugged into the blue box the servo did not move with the gear up. I have seen the slider on other planes. Im thinking that Freewing just added that function to the blue box and that the slider was already there from previous designs. I could be wrong. This is my first freewing plane.

[xviper]

I think sometimes, there's some "voodoo" with those blue boxes.

[Aaron Wallace]

I thought so, too, but after checking, it seems all my Freewing jets with a blue box does this. The servo moves but the wheel doesn't due to that "slider".

Ok. I see the slider function that you are talking about. But when I had the nose wheel steering plugged into the blue box the servo did not move with the gear up. I have seen the slider on other planes. Im thinking that Freewing just added that function to the blue box and that the slider was already there from previous designs. I could be wrong. This is my first freewing plane.

[Johnnyrabuse]

Ladies and gentlemen

I have my second l 39 my first served well for many many flights till I wrecked it on a landing had the wrong glasses on and kinda came up short it still flew well but I retired the airframe

Please forgive me I know this sounds crazy but on my first I just dumped battery's in it and it flew great

I never even checked the cg

I know I know on this one I'm being more vigilant and using the recommended 103

To get that I have a six thousand admiral all the way back a five thousand almost all the way back and four thousands about a third back

To get 103 I got a feeling I was flying way nose heavy before but never had an issue

Does this sound right to you

Thanks in advance

[xviper]

Thanks. Its not the way its supposed to be but it works. When I have the nose wheel steering in the blue box the servo does not move with the gear up. But, again it works. I hope to get a chance to fly it soon.

I thought so, too, but after checking, it seems all my Freewing jets with a blue box does this. The servo moves but the wheel doesn't due to that "slider".

[Aaron Wallace]

My nose wheel servo turns with the nose wheel up and I am using the Blueboc... if you look at the linkage the nose wheel servo, the actual wheel does not move, only when it's down. Just leave it.

Thanks. Its not the way its supposed to be but it works. When I have the nose wheel steering in the blue box the servo does not move with the gear up. But, again it works. I hope to get a chance to fly it soon.