Official Freewing Twin 70mm AL37 Airliner Thread

[Angryflyer]

I'm a fan!
Recognize the Flaming Geyser scenery but have never flown there.

Come fly with us! No dues, just a park pass ($30/year) if you didn't already know.
do you fly at Hobart?

[T-CAT]

Got my Max 10 configured with an FPV setup. The camera has a pan function but not tilt due to the limited lines of sight. I tried to make the FPV gear as unobtrusive as possible. Can’t wait to give it a try from the cockpit!

LOL, now that's awesome and funny! Great job.

[ridgerunner]

Ordered!

[Angryflyer]

Hey Angryflyer ! Diehard 12 since 1976 my friend! Created Seahawks.NET back in 1998 for 12's...Season Ticket Holder since 1997. GO Hawks!! Nice livery!

Right on man! See you at the field some time!

[James]

Got my Max 10 configured with an FPV setup. The camera has a pan function but not tilt due to the limited lines of sight. I tried to make the FPV gear as unobtrusive as possible. Can’t wait to give it a try from the cockpit!

That looks fantastic V! Please share some screen recording if you can of a flight once you do it. Would love to see how you land it FPV in the high alpha position

[LowandSlow]

Ok, another question to put out there, for those using a gyro, where did you place it? I am under the impression that they should be at the C of G, so they are at the centre of each axis.
that would put it quite far back, so are they ok more forward near the reciever placement?
thanks again!

[LowandSlow]

Any Seahawks fans here??

I'm a fan!
Recognize the Flaming Geyser scenery but have never flown there.

[Aros]

Any Seahawks fans here??

Hey Angryflyer ! Diehard 12 since 1976 my friend! Created Seahawks.NET back in 1998 for 12's...Season Ticket Holder since 1997. GO Hawks!! Nice livery!

[MikeT]

Any Seahawks fans here??

Nope . I've given up on sports entirely. Now the screwed up NASCAR

Mike

[xviper]

Any Seahawks fans here??

I see you also have the AL-37, too, besides the OV-10. On the topic of gyros, you may have noticed that this plane also has a bit of a “waddle” in cross winds. A simple gyro will also control that quite effectively.

[Angryflyer]

No!

😛

[borntoolate]

Any Seahawks fans here??

No!

[Angryflyer]

@ Flaming Geyser Field in Washington state:

https://youtu.be/-OEYn0Fm0yI

[Angryflyer]

Any Seahawks fans here??

[themudduck]

This afternoon my buddy Jason Bennett put together a really cool video presentation of the AL37 flying today, which consists of three different videos playing at the same time - one shot from the tail fin (using a stabilized Insta360 GO micro camera), one shot from the belly (a RunCam) and a chase video shot from Jason's drone. There are some really cool views here, enjoy!

I am still getting used to landing this thing correctly, I always seem to need a little more "up" at touchdown. But it was a pretty good landing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTG25uo-bio

[Wild Man]

Nice Job Slowflight. need to get mine done when I get home from the Billings MT.Airshow

[Slowflight]

To those who fly off grass fields, what is the take off run length you usually see? Our field is 400 ft in length and I'm just waiting for the ends to dry out a bit so I have the full length available. It would be nice to have an idea of how long a run this aircraft needs.

See my post on maiden, 100 ft and she is up in the air, unless you grass is very high ours is cut like a golf course, but the taxiways are as you see them in the picture and she rolls easily on it.

[Slowflight]

Finally had a good day for a maiden, not a perfect day but good enough, my last attempt was cancelled due to high winds. Today I got there early since I knew that wind would pick up. Flight was uneventful , winds 10-12 MPH right down the runway, I advanced throttle flaps at take off setting, after a roll of about 100 ft she rotated and up she went, gear up flaps up and she settled into a gentle left turn, no trims of any control surfaced needed, I was amazed. She flies great at 1/2 to 3/4 throttle, on a calm day 1/2 is all thats needed. After a few passes and about 4 min I lowered flaps on the down wind flowed by the gear. Since Im used to much larger warbird my flap setting were much less than recommended, is my experience that model plane do not need as much flaps as the full size counterpart, too much flap and you’ll just adding unneeded drag. So once lined up with the runway I reduced power into a glide slope, with the head wind she floated a bit on the flare till mains touched down. This is one fun plane and very realistic in the air, the lack of gyro made it wiggle a bit on cross wind but other than that it was a great maiden. My only complaint ....the paint scheme, the gray is hard to see, I had to ask my spotter to remove my sunglasses cause I had a hard time seeing it with clouds in the background. Great job Freewing.

[Straightshooter]

For what it's worth, the graphics scale wise from Callie also works for the Winrider 737. I can transport the Winrider without removing the wings.

[IanF]

I’ve fitted the motor pods onto the wings, and at the same time modified the wiring for the retracts using a y lead to allow the u/c to drop by connecting a servo tester.
one socketend of the y lead has been glued beside the flap servo with the socket flush with the wing surface. (see piccy).
Once I’ve tested them a few times I’ll paint the ends white to blend.