Official Freewing T-33 Shooting Star 80mm EDF Thread

[Elbee]

I finally started the T-33 to P-80 conversion I mentioned on here a couple of months ago. More to come from time to time.

T2, You are a man after my own heart. Nice work on the initial surgery, Dr. Looking forward to the follow-up. Best, LB

[tab28682]

With some of the extra time that many of us have now, I finally started the T-33 to P-80 conversion I mentioned on here a couple of months ago.

A couple of hours with some very sharp and very thin knife blades had the T-33 fuselage separated into five sections. The picture below shows the P-80 fuse parts assembled for a fit check Very little blending needed on the front joint and just a little more on the aft joint. I removed the same amount from the canopy hatch as was removed from the forward fuselage.

The inlet ducting at the front joint will take some massaging to get smooth airflow, but will not be a huge amount of work.

The second picture shows the rear joint as it is being cleaned up a little before bonding.

More to come from time to time.

[Race 22 Crew]

Finally the weather cooperated for a few more flights along with its brother.

[xviper]

Doesn't look like your normal flying area, much better place to launch except for that coooooold

Today was almost like "summer". Tomorrow, winter comes back with a vengeance. Snow, snow and more snow.

[OV10]

It was the warmest it's been all winter. I actually over-dressed.

Doesn't look like your normal flying area, much better place to launch except for that coooooold

[T-CAT]

[xviper]

Mission accomplished! Great flight. That weather looked and sounded cold . Ha-ha

It was the warmest it's been all winter. I actually over-dressed.

[T-CAT]

After hanging from my garage ceiling for a couple of months, finally managed a maiden this morning. It does fly as well as everyone has indicated.

Mission accomplished! Great flight. That weather looked and sounded cold . Ha-ha

[T-CAT]

She's more or less complete! Just a few water slide decals left on my repaint of the Freewing T-33.

This one started off life as a German scheme - sprayed with Rustoleum 2X. Decals by Callie, of course.

Great repaint, Ace.

[xviper]

After hanging from my garage ceiling for a couple of months, finally managed a maiden this morning. It does fly as well as everyone has indicated.

[crxmanpat]

Oh yeah. Love me some RT packs!
Just took the nose weights out of mine so I can run 6250's 😎

Yep, I did the same and run the same packs. She's a speed demon for sure, and now with 3 oz less dead weight. My 6250 moved from the edge of the blue box to the front of the battery tray to make CG. Flew it several times down in Tucson a few weeks ago, no issues.

[AceMigKiller]

Oh yeah. Love me some RT packs!
Just took the nose weights out of mine so I can run 6250's 😎

[JLambCWU]

Stock tailpipe?
I tried a slightly necked down exhaust here at my field in Denver (~5400'MSL) and did *not* get the same amazing results we saw in Phoenix (~1200'MSL). Ended up going back to a stock tailpipe.

It appears Alpha has got the proportions dead-on for the majority of the customer base.

If you live at 3000'MSL or less (guesstimate), you can enjoy better acceleration, slightly higher top end (about 6mph) and slightly lower amp draw by necking the tailpipe down to 2.5" exhaust diameter.

Vic

Yeah, didn’t mod my tailpipe. Thing is still MOVING on these RT batteries.

[AceMigKiller]

Stock tailpipe?
I tried a slightly necked down exhaust here at my field in Denver (~5400'MSL) and did *not* get the same amazing results we saw in Phoenix (~1200'MSL). Ended up going back to a stock tailpipe.

It appears Alpha has got the proportions dead-on for the majority of the customer base.

If you live at 3000'MSL or less (guesstimate), you can enjoy better acceleration, slightly higher top end (about 6mph) and slightly lower amp draw by necking the tailpipe down to 2.5" exhaust diameter.

Vic

[JLambCWU]

I knew she was clipping along fast at the higher density altitudes here in Salt Lake City, so I got a GPS to see how fast she was moving.

Its ONLY GPS speed, so that included tailwinds and dives.

150mph on a STOCK EDF is impressive none the less.

[Beeg]

She's more or less complete! Just a few water slide decals left on my repaint of the Freewing T-33.

This one started off life as a German scheme - sprayed with Rustoleum 2X. Decals by Callie, of course.

Very nice!

[AceMigKiller]

She's more or less complete! Just a few water slide decals left on my repaint of the Freewing T-33.

This one started off life as a German scheme - sprayed with Rustoleum 2X. Decals by Callie, of course.

[MOFO1]

althepal88. What color are you going to repaint? If the otb red is needed, take a flat surface with the color on it to Home Depot. They will match it near perfect in a small sample container for only $4.00 +/-. Did this when I scraped the red on the wingtip tanks. Have to strain my eyes to tell the difference. If silver there is a Rustoleum that is as close as can be. I have used it on other FW silver finish jets. I will look in my stash to see which one it is.

[althepal88]

I need to repaint my rudder (USAF) and was wondering what rattle-can shade/brand of red is my closest match?

[Radar-Guy]