Official Freewing Twin 70mm AL37 Airliner Thread

[Gary Cooper]

Looks fantastic and welcome Gary!

Thank you!

[Elbee]

Gary Cooper, Great work, SIr. Outstanding airframe. Welcome to "The Squawk" and yeppers, school comes first. Best, LB

[uscanuck1xa]

That Eastern Airlines plane looks fantastic!! Well done!!

[davidsai]

Hello All,

I'm late to the game! College comes first! I've been reading through for a while but haven't had a chance to post.

Years ago my grandfather worked for Eastern Airlines. I had to recreate N276EA, Spirit of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, from the Eastern Airlines reboot in 2014. My mods include: custom paint/Callie Graphics Eastern scheme, cockpit dome light, tail logo lights, aluminium leading edge tape, 3D printed nose gear brace/ -800 winglets (not pictured) and spinner swirls.

Thanks to everyone's contributions and recommendations here!


Gary

hello very nice, how did you put the logo lights, does the landing gear light need any special sequence for ti to light on mine does not light when i lower the dear thnaks david

[xviper]

hello very nice, how did you put the logo lights, does the landing gear light need any special sequence for ti to light on mine does not light when i lower the dear thnaks david

It may be plugged into the wrong pins on the board. Look at the legend that comes with the manual and try a different pin position.

[avanti127]

I agree with Aros, that is sweet! Great job!

Hello All,

I'm late to the game! College comes first! I've been reading through for a while but haven't had a chance to post.

Years ago my grandfather worked for Eastern Airlines. I had to recreate N276EA, Spirit of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, from the Eastern Airlines reboot in 2014. My mods include: custom paint/Callie Graphics Eastern scheme, cockpit dome light, tail logo lights, aluminium leading edge tape, 3D printed nose gear brace/ -800 winglets (not pictured) and spinner swirls.

Thanks to everyone's contributions and recommendations here!


Gary

[urrl]

[rzing]

Hi Guys,
I have some Zippy 6S 5800 mAh batteries that are "rated" at 30C. Do you think that's a high enough C rating?

[J Mitchel]

Kulula Air's Flying 101 is almost ready for takeoff! HUGE thank you to Callie Graphics to working on such a complex design.
I have a few finishing touches still to do. I too had issues with paint peeling when lightly using delicate touch frog tape in a few areas. Used Rustoleum green (not exactly the right shade, but close enough for me) and a matte spray finish over the brushed on chalky smooth finish aged gray. In hindsight, the brushed on finish was not thinned enough and I have brush marks I am not happy about. But we all know we are our own worst critics and this is not a museum piece.


I am having trouble with the nav and strobes on the wings. I had the wingtip strobes as a constant on the other day (not by choice) and now they are not on at all. Trying to figure out this blue box and even with the schematics, still not there. I seem to have a left over two pin Y cable with no where to plug it in to. Thoughts?

[xviper]

I am having trouble with the nav and strobes on the wings. I had the wingtip strobes as a constant on the other day (not by choice) and now they are not on at all. Trying to figure out this blue box and even with the schematics, still not there. I seem to have a left over two pin Y cable with no where to plug it in to. Thoughts?

Included in my manual, was an additional sheet detailing the pins on the control box. It has a legend of what pins did what. Did you not get one? Even without the control box instructions, the actual box is well labeled and you can tell by how other things are plugged in, what the polarity is. All lights are 2-pin plugs.

[Elbee]

Kulula Air's Flying 101 is almost ready for takeoff!

JM, Your AL37 is just amazing. What a unique livery. Great work. Bravo Zulu, Sir. Best, LB

[J Mitchel]

Thank you for the response and help. It is appreciated. I did get that separate sheet and the box is laid out well. Still having trouble though. I cannot find any loose connection and don't know why I have the "extra" 2 pin y cable. Something is not correct somewhere, and I was hoping that someone else had a similar event, solved it and I could learn from their efforts.
Next step is with a volt meter and figuring where I have power and don't. To see if power is getting to the pins on the ribbon cable for the wings. There is a disconnect somewhere.

Thanks again,
really appreciate it.

Included in my manual, was an additional sheet detailing the pins on the control box. It has a legend of what pins did what. Did you not get one? Even without the control box instructions, the actual box is well labeled and you can tell by how other things are plugged in, what the polarity is. All lights are 2-pin plugs.

[Aros]

Nice work JM! Very cool!

[Wild Man]

Very Nice, if you like GREEN !!! I hate the Color green, the only three places the color GREEN belongs, is in a Tree, on your Lawn, Or in your Wallet That is my Opinion and I am sticking to it LOL!!!!!!!!!

[J Mitchel]

Thank you for sharing your opinion. The great thing about this world is that one is free to paint their plane any color they choose and no one will make them paint a plane a color they don't want to. People certainly don't have to look at things they don't want to.

Many people choose not to share negative opinions or criticisms which do not offer constructive value. Why "yuck" someone else's "Yum" is a practice I like to employ.

Tone is SO hard to convey via written word. I appreciate your playful and fun intent. Have a great day!
Jeff

Very Nice, if you like GREEN !!! I hate the Color green, the only three places the color GREEN belongs, is in a Tree, on your Lawn, Or in your Wallet That is my Opinion and I am sticking to it LOL!!!!!!!!!

[J Mitchel]

Nice work JM! Very cool!

Thank you. Much appreciated. I just love Motion RC's products and service. Now....about that C-119 Flying Boxcar....when are we going to see that? I know those molds exist. FMS had it on their social media page. Take my money!

[xviper]

Thank you for the response and help. It is appreciated. I did get that separate sheet and the box is laid out well. Still having trouble though. I cannot find any loose connection and don't know why I have the "extra" 2 pin y cable. Something is not correct somewhere, and I was hoping that someone else had a similar event, solved it and I could learn from their efforts.
Next step is with a volt meter and figuring where I have power and don't. To see if power is getting to the pins on the ribbon cable for the wings. There is a disconnect somewhere.

Thanks again,
really appreciate it.

A voltmeter is good to confirm continuity, but be very careful if you apply power to the light, that you don't accidentally push power in the wrong pole. LEDs don't like reverse polarity and can burn out quickly. Same if you over-volt them. I've burned out LEDs on several lights in the past when testing them the wrong way. What I do is to pick a different set of pins on the board and test each light plug by plugging it into a known working set of pins and powering up the plane. Then you can label each plug with which light it is and whether or not they are solid or if they blink or if you want it to come on with landing gear deployment. If I recall correctly, the "Y" I used to hook up two lights that light up at the same time (eg, wing tip lights) although I can't remember which ones specifically I did it on. It just helped to eliminate the use of one set of pins. All lights on mine work as they should.

[Wild Man]

Thank you for sharing your opinion. The great thing about this world is that one is free to paint their plane any color they choose and no one will make them paint a plane a color they don't want to. People certainly don't have to look at things they don't want to.

Many people choose not to share negative opinions or criticisms which do not offer constructive value. Why "yuck" someone else's "Yum" is a practice I like to employ.

Tone is SO hard to convey via written word. I appreciate your playful and fun intent. Have a great day!
Jeff

I find it a very sad situation in today's world where people get offended at almost nothing. You did a very Nice scheme on your L-37, great job so yada, yada, yada, Didn't mean to hurt your feelings, and by the way there are a lot of people that hate the Color green and do not have the intestinal fortitude to say so. that's said very said So you have a nice day

[uscanuck1xa]

Let's all put our differences aside on the colour green - after all it's St. Paddy's Day!!

[Aros]