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Freewing 90mm F-22 Raptor - Official Thread
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I got my maiden flight on my Raptor today. Although this is my 1st EDF or electric plane, I felt quite comfortable as it started to approach lift off speed, hit the elevators and gentle climb in the air. Hit the gear and flap switch, felt my heart beat quicken as more speed came up. Man did I have fun, Awesome watching it come in to land and seeing the landing gear light on. Very cool Plane.1 Photo
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Warren M Welcome to the party, Warren! 'Nice to see a gasser jumping straight into our 90mm F-22 for his first electric airplane of any kind!Live Q&A every Tuesday and Friday at 9pm EST on my Twitch Livestream
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Agreed Alpha ! Welcome Warren and you couldn't have picked a better first start EDF! She's a beaut!My YouTube RC videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@toddbreda
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Badboys328 Welcome to HobbySquawk, well this is not easy to say, both versions (6S and 8S) fly great. Some like th extra thrust of the 8S version, some say 6S is good to go. I also know guys flying 10S. I have the 8S version and love it. So if you have a few 6S ones, it is not a mistake to try something new. You can combine a 6S with a 2S battery. In my opinion it is worth to go for 8S!
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Agreed and welcome NeilMaxx ! I wouldn't recommend this F-22 as anyone's first EDF. Not that it's a handful with bad habits but you want to work your way up a bit. Like Badboys328 said, start with a sport trainer EDF like the Avanti and work your way up to the scale 90mm stuff from there. The Avanti is an amazing EDF jet you won't be disappointed with!My YouTube RC videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@toddbreda
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Aros Now it's starting to make sense, honestly i don't want to go for the 64mm jets a friend of mine from the philippines also he's based on dubai influenced me to go for edf since i've been flying RC since 2014 but never got into edf, he suggested to get an FMS viper 70mm for training, but The thing is i'm more of an "historical" type of guy and i love scale, i'm actually interested at the 80mm f-86 like some of the other guys recommend as a starter jet but the avanti is a good option too, thankyou for the tips!😉
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In my opinion, some of the 80mm EDF jets can be great to learn on in conoarison to the smaller 50-70mm size jets. Some 80mm EDF jets can reach a length and wingspan that provide easier orientation in the air, do not get affected as easily by the weather, hold a nice range of battery sizes/weights, perform well, and are still reasonable in price. The Freewing 80mm EDF F-86 or Avanti S are fantastic options if your already a proficient RC fixed wing pilot and moving into EDF jets.
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T-CAT Yes i am Brother, owned a several powered gliders, some warbirds (market/scratch built). This time i want to step up the game of going for the jets... Honestly the reason why i don't like the 64mm jets coz of their size but don't get me wrong those are very nice little jets, as i said i love scale planes with historical backgrounds like the f-86, f-4, mig-21, A-4... And i actually want to minimize the cost of buying too much planes i am from a third world country so i am not into collecting so much plane on the same genre to save for a diff type of a plane, so i might consider a large trainer and set the next goal for the f-22, after that step up to gas planes. I know i'm not like other guys that collect and fly rc planes, i only pick a specific model and fly it till it's last day.
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Originally posted by NeilMaxx View PostT-CAT Yes i am Brother, owned a several powered gliders, some warbirds (market/scratch built). This time i want to step up the game of going for the jets... Honestly the reason why i don't like the 64mm jets coz of their size but don't get me wrong those are very nice little jets, as i said i love scale planes with historical backgrounds like the f-86, f-4, mig-21, A-4... And i actually want to minimize the cost of buying too much planes i am from a third world country so i am not into collecting so much plane on the same genre to save for a diff type of a plane, so i might consider a large trainer and set the next goal for the f-22, after that step up to gas planes. I know i'm not like other guys that collect and fly rc planes, i only pick a specific model and fly it till it's last day.
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Those are amazing jets. Personally, I thought the L-39 was a good solid airplane and great value, but I'm significantly more impressed with the T-33 from just about every standpoint (totally subjective and not knocking the L-39) except for lights . I sold my L-39 without hesitation long before the T-33 came along, but if I didn't then I would have sold it right afterwards.
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