Official Freewing MiG-29 Fulcrum Twin 80mm Thread

[Airguardian]

[Red B]

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[paulrkytek]

I had a bad landing today and need some repainting.

I found the elapor colors of Multiplex, but I'm not sure to buy the grey or silver metallic.

What do you think?

Grey is easier to adjust with white or black and easier to get a flat finish than silver

[Airguardian]

[Flobau]

I had a bad landing today and need some repainting.

I found the elapor colors of Multiplex, but I'm not sure to buy the grey or silver metallic.

What do you think?

[nuts-n-volts]

Right on. Thanks!

[Evan D]

Yes, I reduced my timer 10 seconds but may reduce it more. I have this in my Gripen which I seldom fly full throttle, just occasionally to see that it does, in fact, have good vertical. Most my flight is flips and flops, 3D type stuff.

[nuts-n-volts]

Evan, did you notice a flight time decrease because of more power used? Amount?

[Evan D]

It will. Swapping out the EDF in my Gripen was a huge boost but it should be, the older units in the MiG make 101A and 2291W. The new EDF in my Gripen makes 127 and 2857, a 25% increase.

[TGoelzer]

I might buy 2 units and install them in my Mig 29 and see if that makes a big difference

[Evan D]

Yeah, and the Avanti, Mirage, F5… looks like all will switch to it.

[TGoelzer]

Anyone else notice that the current inventory on the Mig 29 now has the New 80mm edf fan?

[nuts-n-volts]

Yes, bypassed. Evan is right on. The blue box only gets power from the bec to run retracts and lights as these are limited to 5.1V ...on mine anyway.

[Evan D]

I'm not going to second guess the ratcheting, could be transmitter, receiver, MCBe, extensions or servos..

He has to bypass the MCBe for things running HV and keep the MCBe for at least retracts, gear doors and lights.

[Red B]

Replace them with something better. If I see something wrong with equipment, I don't wait or keep flying it that way. I'm very proactive. I figure it out and fix it. I used Promodeler 160s on my elevators. In fact I changed all servos over to HV and I run the Rx and all servos on a 2sLiPo. No, you don't have to go this far, but in my opinion, this plane needed it.

Did you by-pass the blue box? Thanks for the reply.

Red

[Red B]

Got a question about the elevator servos. Mine seem to be ratchety if that's a word. They are not smooth at all.

Any thoughts?

Thanks Red.

Another thing. The servos run smoothly when hooked directly to a servo tester. Could this be a blue box issue?

[nuts-n-volts]

Replace them with something better. If I see something wrong with equipment, I don't wait or keep flying it that way. I'm very proactive. I figure it out and fix it. I used Promodeler 160s on my elevators. In fact I changed all servos over to HV and I run the Rx and all servos on a 2sLiPo. No, you don't have to go this far, but in my opinion, this plane needed it.

[Red B]

Got a question about the elevator servos. Mine seem to be ratchety if that's a word. They are not smooth at all.

Any thoughts?

Thanks Red.

[radfordc]

Well I am every disappointed with the mig-29 my granddaughter fly ti twice and the 3 time the Elevator linkage bend so is there any linkage that will be strong

You recently complained of a sticking elevator and now bent linkage. You have been remarkably non-verbose in describing your problem!

[Airguardian]

Thanks, GG!

No gyro, yet... But I'll be soon adding an ET Vector FC to the jet to have a proper OSD for FPV, and then I'll use the gyro in it.
I may also add another standalone gyro for the nozzles, while at it... we'll see.

So far, all my flights with the MiG have been unstabilized. :)

As a matter of fact, you can often see the MiG drifting ass / dipping wings unintentionally in some of the maneuvers I do...
Ofc, it's easier for me to tell when it's doing something I didn't actually command, haha!