Official Freewing F/A-18C Hornet 90mm EDF Thread

[Juan De La Garza]

Greetings to all,
I just received my first jet this past Saturday and am looking forward to learning from you all. My goal is to have this tribute build (#6 CPT Jeff "Kooch" Kuss) ready by next summer. Thank you!

[Hugh Wiedman]

A little frustrated was very careful to install screws on horizontal stabilizers in the plastic grommets basically deteriorated

If I'm not mistaken, that's actually the vertical stab mounts on the side. You must have used the wrong screw as xviper suggested. Two options, 1) order the plastic parts and remove what's there and replace it, although to be honest with you, in looking at the spare parts, I really don't see that insert in any of the plastic parts, or 2) remove the stub and epoxy a small block of hardwood in it's place, fit the vertical stab on and drill a small hole where the screw comes through and go from there. The vertical stab is held on with 2 screws coming in from the top and this one that you shredded on the side, so that might work, but I'm sure others might have a better fix!

[InTheTubeDeep]

Flyin Toaster returns! Damn I had her dialed in on landings didn't fly for a month and lost touch goobered 2 in a row, maybe I had too much +AoA gotta come in nose down and flare like my first 20 flights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlSGm_b9DFE

[xviper]

A little frustrated was very careful to install screws on horizontal stabilizers in the plastic grommets basically deteriorated

I can't tell from the picture but is it possible that you used the wrong type of screw? The little bags contain several kinds of screws. In the past, I've used the wrong screw in a particular spot and nearly wrecked the hole it goes into. There's pan heads and flat heads and there's several lengths of screws. One has to analyze very carefully the exact type and length of screw that is meant for each application. Also, using the right size of screwdriver is required. Most of my screwdrivers are simply too small and there's too much play in the connection. This makes it hard to turn the screw straight and firmly, thereby ruining the screw and/or the hole it goes into.

[Evan D]

I'm sorry, horizontal stabs? Can you provide a better photo?

[richard_petrosky@aol.com]

What is a good fix this problem

[richard_petrosky@aol.com]

A little frustrated was very careful to install screws on horizontal stabilizers in the plastic grommets basically deteriorated

[davegee]

LOL so funny you mention that davegee! My girlfriend is hyper conscious and the first thing she said was "So I was looking at the real jets and your model to see if everything added up and I noticed everything was dead on but those things on the side of the plane looks different." LOL! God bless her. She spotted the difference without having any clue what that even meant.

Most Excellent!! She's a keeper if she can differentiate those subtle differences between the legacy Hornet (yours) and the Super Hornet (Blue Angels)!! Tell her "Well Done!!"

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Cheers

davegee

[Aros]

LOL so funny you mention that davegee! My girlfriend is hyper conscious and the first thing she said was "So I was looking at the real jets and your model to see if everything added up and I noticed everything was dead on but those things on the side of the plane looks different." LOL! God bless her. She spotted the difference without having any clue what that even meant.

[davegee]

Thanks Hugh, Evan is right as well...Move the pushrod in the servo arm so it has less work to do. Such a beautiful bird (and my personal favorite current military jet and scheme), I wish it didn't have all these component issues to worry about.

Here's my girl enjoying the Blues at SeaFair 2022 on TV last Sunday. My girlfriend was so impressed with the scale and quality based on the real ones on the TV!

Did your girlfriend point out that they currently fly F/A-18Es (and an F) as seen on your TV?? Ha Ha! When my wife and I were young, I instructed her on being able to differentiate planes I was flying at the time: the B-727-100 and -100QC, the B-727-200, and the B-727-200 A(dvanced). Now that those are all gone for decades, I doubt she can remember which one was which, but maybe it stuck! 🤣

[jetpltrich]

When I get in and taxi the 737 I fly for an airline after it has sat all night the wheels have a “flat spot” and it is very noticeable. But by the time we hit 100kts going down the runway you can’t tell. Just saying.

[Evan D]

After a while they kind of do Aros, if you fly off super smooth pavement (I don't think you do) you'll always notice their skipping.

[Aros]

Duly noted friends. With all the models I have had over the years I am surprised this is the first I recall such warped foam wheels. Will they even out with some taxi-ing?

[xviper]

Suck the wheels up and put the whole thing on a piece of 1/2" foam. Or, take the nose cone off and set it on it's beak on a thicker piece of foam - stand it up leaning against something where it won't keel over.
None of my planes (except the OV-10) are stored with wheels down, be they hanging, leaning, upside down, right side up, on hanging platforms, etc.

[Evan D]

They all do it Aros. Even if you don’t put it on it’s wheels the flat spots never fully go away.

[Aros]

F/A-18C Pilots, my new model sits in my garage. I am limited on space so I can't hang her up at the moment. She's on her feet and I noticed yesterday that she has some significant flat spots on her foam mains. Is there a remedy for this besides the obvious (putting her on some platform where the wheels aren't resting on the ground)? I suppose I could get creative and figure out something where I can lift the fuse off the ground but was wondering mainly what do you do for flat spots on these foam wheels?

[davegee]

Now that's what a "Blue Diamonds" should look like!

Amen!!

davegee

[rms]

Smal movie of my Blue Diamonds..

[Elbee]

Did some repainting on my Fw F18

RS, Nicely done, Sir. And what nuts-n-volts wrote is spot on. Super repaint. Best, LB

[nuts-n-volts]

Now that's what a "Blue Diamonds" should look like!