Freewing 90mm F-22 Raptor - Official Thread

[Con Papaioannou]

Cheers Rifleman

[rifleman_btx]

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Some yellow for the Belly.





Completed Build






Beautiful

[Gary S.]

Is that with the V6 or V8 engine, lol?

Actually it has a V10 engine not exactly stock. Its quite awesome to see this thing come screaming by at that speed.

[Coconut]

Is that with the V6 or V8 engine, lol?

[Gary S.]

[Coconut]

That is NICE, but I would paint the inside of the intakes black.

[Con Papaioannou]

Continue from above.













Some yellow for the Belly.





Completed Build

[Con Papaioannou]

Hi All Hope you are all well,

I have done something a little different with my Freewing F22 Raptor,I know its not to scale but its my favorite scheme.

I purchased this as an ARF kit it was a little beaten up so i decided to do it my style.

Take a look any comments welcome.


This is the original condition before mods


Starting to repair.

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After some repairs& Primer added did some more sanding






Repairs and primer done..






Now for some white paint to start off the scheme.







White pain completed now for some red.










Next stem adding some decals.



Continue?

[Aros]

Ease her in, bleed off that airspeed and plop her down, she likes it that way.

[Gmack908]

Gmack908 very unusual, it seems there is either something wrong with your field / runway or your landing technique....a short video might help the guys in here to help you with your problem.
it is definately not common to snapp one pin after the other. 😖

looking at a video of an earlier landing it may have been a bit hard. Also the field is quite rough on takeoff I looked back in the videos I have and it’s really blasting on the retracts. I also noticed that the pin broke exactly where part of it is notched which tells me I had installed it maybe not far enough down in the retract. Replaced tonight and will fly again this week when the rain stops and see how it does.

[WarbirdFan66]

Gmack908 very unusual, it seems there is either something wrong with your field / runway or your landing technique....a short video might help the guys in here to help you with your problem.
it is definately not common to snapp one pin after the other. 😖

[fredmdbud]

I have a 3d printed nose gear brace which works great and have had zero issues with front gear. Specifically the mains I have snapped 3 pins now.

Perhaps bigger wheels?

How fast do you land? How much flap?

[Gmack908]

I have a 3d printed nose gear brace which works great and have had zero issues with front gear. Specifically the mains I have snapped 3 pins now.

[fredmdbud]

Sheared another stock freewing gear pin today on takeoff. Belly landed safe in high grass. Thinking of 5mm steel round rod instead. Anyone else?

Have you considered a backstop or brace for the nosegear strut, to relieve the bending forces by moving the torque axis from the pin?

[Gmack908]

Sheared another stock freewing gear pin today on takeoff. Belly landed safe in high grass. Thinking of 5mm steel round rod instead. Anyone else?

[Evan D]

Yeah, unfortunately the rudder airbrakes take three channels just by itself...

Evan, yeah, I'd be stoked to use your file. I'll pm you my email address. I wish I had something of comparable value/utility to offer as trade!

I have the DX9, so I'd lose out on the rudder brakes. But that seems like the piece to eliminate if I have to.

[SanExup]

Evan, yeah, I'd be stoked to use your file. I'll pm you my email address. I wish I had something of comparable value/utility to offer as trade!

I have the DX9, so I'd lose out on the rudder brakes. But that seems like the piece to eliminate if I have to.

[Evan D]

If anyone runs a Spektrum I can email the SPM file. I use 11 channels on the F-22 but you can mod the SPM file.

[Gary S.]

I have tailerons on a lot of my planes so I knew about where to set them. I set them at 50% and they have been there ever since.

The A-6 has a single pivot for both horizontal stabs so you can't do tailerons.

The A-6 uses the tiny airbrakes for ailerons. I have never separated them to do any mixing and don't see a reason to, the flaps are large and effective.

I run my tailerons at 50% also, no particular reason other than it seems to work well. I have considered turning them down a bit, but its on a switch and its just easy to kick them off.

[SanExup]

Thanks Evan! This has shed some light on taking the next steps with plane and transmitter setup. I really want to be able to use what I have to the fullest extent. This helps a lot, I appreciate it!