Freewing A6 Intruder

[Evan D]

Probably would…

[jliner]

I have an prop eflite that I found easy to fly, roll, loop, land etc. Would the A6 high performance by freewing be alright as a first edf?

[Evan D]

But… okay, go for it. While many MANY manuals give a too nose heavy CG point the A6 one is about right.

[Habanero]

Sounds like it's balanced nose heavy.

According to my Xicoy scales, I am actually ever so slightly tail heavy with the CG as indicated in the manual.

in watching the Motion RC video of the A6 flight, my battery looks to be at a very similar placement for CG, and my elevator is now at the same angle that he has his set to.

[Evan D]

Sounds like it's balanced nose heavy.

[Habanero]

Ok, I finally got my A6 Intruder setup and ready for its maiden. I adjusted everything according to the manual's specs. Had to adjust the front wheels a little since it was pulling hard to the left out of the box. When I accelerated to take off, the plane was stuck to the ground. It took quite a bit of up elevator to get it off the runway. Then, I got some altitude, and checked the trim. It nose-dived towards the ground so much, it was difficult to actually get trim into it. After over 70 clicks it finally settled in. 2 clicks of aileron, 2 clicks of rudder, so that was good. Got a solid landing, then altered my sub-trim on the elevator to match the amount of trim I had to put in. I now need to work on my AS3X and SAFE testing. It looks like all of the corrections are going the right direction, but I need to test them high up. I am just concerned that the book told me to put the elevator just above the line where the fuselage parts come together, but my elevator is now way below that reference point to fly level.

[Evan D]

Same here...

Nine years… I had one of the first and wasn’t that happy with it. Got a second and it flies much better. I see some changes but there must be others, in the wings that make it that way. The new higher power also helps a lot.


https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...6-Intruder-EDF

[Ron1950]

my first A6 was back in 2015 or so.. it always had trouble finding level flight.. then it sat for 6 years or so and finally broke it out again and same problem so i ordered 2 metal gear servos and replaced the elevator servos.. it was like a new plane.. i eventually sold it and bought another hp model works great this time..

[Evan D]

Nice A model!

[Elbee]

EA-6B Geek Uhhh, WOW! Bravo Zulu, Sir. Best, LB

[NewbieBob]

Such beautiful lines. Mine arrived today. The size of the box fools you. iX14 came too, and Discovered you cant get 5000 mah smart batteries across the border. Weird. F4 Ghost arrives Wednesday .
After this storm on the weekend its looking like I will have a lot of build time.
Nice build on that Intruder,looks great
Bob

[EA-6B Geek]

Just completed

[NewbieBob]

I just had a peak at my FW 's
F16 70mm
F9F 64MM
A10 TWIN 64
F35 70MM
A6 80MM
F8 64mm
F105 64 mm
Gray BAE Hawk 70 mm

[DCORSAIR]

I bought one yrs ago, it was one of the worst kits to put together, nothing fit right on mine, it flew okay but it was one jet I hated, sold it or gave it to a friend, can't remember lol, he loved it and flew it a bunch until it lost its life somehow or another, glad you guys enjoy flying it.....

[NewbieBob]

Years ago before they became this good and before they were EDF and mushy in the turns. But nothing new. I like the FW also . This one among others is a winter build. Likely used the wrong word fails as you are quite right, but theylisten to customers and make improvements or upgrades. So many companies dont have that kind of response to customers opinions.
Thanks for the tips by the way.
Having been away for such a long time I consider myself a newbie as so much has changed for the better.
Cheers
Bob

[Evan D]

My current list of EDF's.

MiG-29 twin 80mm

F-14 Tomcat twin 80mm

F-22 Raptor 90mm

F/A-18 Hornet 90mm

F/A-18E TV 90mm

F-4 Phantom II 90mm

F-104 90mm

Mig-17 Avios 90mm

Gripen TV 80mm

Gripen NO tv 80mm

L-39 Albatros 80mm

Mirage 2000 80mm

A-6E Intruder 80mm

A-4C Skyhawk 80mm

F-86 80mm

Avanti 80mm

B-2 Spirit twin 70mm

Vulcan 70mm

F-16 70mm

Yak-130 70mm

Mig-29 Arrows twin 64mm

F-16 64mm (6S)

F-16 64mm (4S)

Banshee 64mm (6S)

Stinger 64 new (6S)

Stinger 64 (4S)

F86 Alfa 55mm

The Mig-17, twin 64 Mig-29 and Alfa F-86 are not Free Wing, all others are. This is just my current list. I have had many many more. The highlighted ones, not green, are FPV.

[Evan D]

When you say newbie, have you flown EDFs before?

For the A-6 make sure you glue the fuse together well. Spend time with the push pull elevator linkage. Big flaps so make sure they deploy the same on both sides. When flying don't get too slow, it's not a trainer. It's also a bomber, not a fighter so don't expect super speeds though it's not bad with the new power system.

[Evan D]

I don't consider anything FreeWIng or FlightLine has put out a fail. They have exceptional product and Motion has excellent support of those products. I consider them the best in the business. I have had just about every plane they put out and duplicates of many. Example, right now I have two flying Gripens, one box stock no TV and one repainted mod'ed to 8S and with TV and I also have a spare in the box. I have two F-16 (70mm), two Yak130 (70mm) two Banshees, three of the new 64mm F-16, and as I've said I've had two A-6's. My present one repainted in my old squadron, VA-115 colors.

They have never had a bad "first release" of any thing.

[NewbieBob]

Thats a good thing Evan. It shows they are improving upon what customers consider fails.
At least to some extent.. Did you find the first releases really bad ?

[Evan D]

Since it was first released...

I'm 99% sure that all 80mm and up EDFs that FW has has metal struts. None have plastic, I don't think any have ever had wire. Some 70 have wire or optional metal struts, I think there are some smaller that have plastic over wire struts. And some of the FW EDFs do have plastic geared servos. Very early on a few of them had plastic trunions in the retracts.