Official Freewing MiG-29 Fulcrum Twin 80mm Thread

[Birdseed]

I maidened my mig 29 yesterday, and managed to get in three flights.

I used Zeee 5200 mah cells and i swapped out the standard elevator servos for savox 1261MG servos which are rated at 15kg/208oz at 6V

My CG is a 1cm behind the manual recommendation, and ailerons raised so that the lower edge of the aileron lines up with the top of the wing. The flap is level with the aileron. I haven’t raised the ends of the wings as some people have done. Stab position is as per the manual.

Flight 1- without any pylons or missiles. Bit of aileron trim required but no elevator trim required at all. Very pleasant flight, but felt like it wanted to make an uncommanded dive on a couple of occasions, and that was without flaps being deployed.

Flight 2 and 3 were with pylons and missiles fitted, and i tried to set up the igyro. However i quickly turned it off. As you can see in the below vid, there were three episodes where it dived towards the ground. Each time i managed to save it. The end of the vid of the approaches, more than likely shows a PIO as the model was a bit quick and my elevator dual rate was set to 80 percent (as per the manual) and 30 percent expo.




So the question is, is the models diving behaviour a result of a fwd CG, or am I experiencing the mig’s dreaded nose diving tendency-despite elevator servos being vastly over torqued?

https://youtu.be/yiEtDOK8Wls

[radfordc]

Man, that is some excellent FPV flying. It completely immerses you in the role of "pilot" of a jet fighter.

[Turbinefancy]

Excellent flights as usual Airguardian!

Some of us are slow on the sticks by nature, no playback slowdown required. Sharing a flight in which I took the MiG up to altitude to catch a second sunset, checking out the mountain ranges with head-tracking FPV, swoop down to do some lazy acro to wind down the day. Love the Mig-29

[Airguardian]

Glorious slow-mo footage is glorious!

[locharrow]

"Here is a video of my gear door , landing light mock up testing."


T33...your garage is far too tidy..........

[xviper]

Hardly any of those things. It's been a while since I was active here, and I instantly remember your unhelpful, unresponsive, pedantic and often-idiotic replies. When you would say stuff that was comically wrong, you'd just move the goalposts or obfuscate and change the subject. Let's just agree that if ever I ask a question, I'm specifically NOT asking you. Fair enough?

Guaranteed!

[Shaun Evans]

Impatient, demanding AND snotty. And you think you got voted off the island.

Hardly any of those things. It's been a while since I was active here, and I instantly remember your unhelpful, unresponsive, pedantic and often-idiotic replies. When you would say stuff that was comically wrong, you'd just move the goalposts or obfuscate and change the subject. Let's just agree that if ever I ask a question, I'm specifically NOT asking you. Fair enough?

[xviper]

Haha,

Oh how I've missed your lucid, thoughtful and illuminating contributions, lol. This is the 'be careful what you wish for' response. I think I prefer the silence.....

Impatient, demanding AND snotty. And you think you got voted off the island.

[Shaun Evans]

You sound a little perturbed and a bit annoyed that nobody responded. Not sure to which point you are referring to ........................... your EDF units or that noone said anything about the Hitecs. If it was about the EDFs that you listed on RC Groups, I'm not surprised. You didn't provide a link to make it easier for any interested parties to go check it out. Instead, you want people to go over there and hunt for it. I hate RC Groups and I go there only if I have a need to.
If you are referring to the Hitecs, this has been discussed in this thread many times. All that you needed to do was to put in a search within this thread and you would have found all kinds of stuff about it. It's an old topic and I think people are tired of talking about it, especially when it's all posted before.

Haha,

Oh how I've missed your lucid, thoughtful and illuminating contributions, lol. This is the 'be careful what you wish for' response. I think I prefer the silence.....

[xviper]

Hi Fellas!

I'm about to start building my second one for T-power. I don't need these EDF units, so they're on RCGroups if anyone wants some of these new. Also, this kit came with the 'upgraded' servos for the stabs. Are these any good? How do they compare to the Hitec D85's? Thanks!

Dang, NADA, huh?

Well alrighty then, lol...

You sound a little perturbed and a bit annoyed that nobody responded. Not sure to which point you are referring to ........................... your EDF units or that noone said anything about the Hitecs. If it was about the EDFs that you listed on RC Groups, I'm not surprised. You didn't provide a link to make it easier for any interested parties to go check it out. Instead, you want people to go over there and hunt for it. I hate RC Groups and I go there only if I have a need to.
If you are referring to the Hitecs, this has been discussed in this thread many times. All that you needed to do was to put in a search within this thread and you would have found all kinds of stuff about it. It's an old topic and I think people are tired of talking about it, especially when it's all posted before.

[Shaun Evans]

Well alrighty then, lol...

[Radar-Guy]

He got the files...

[kallend]

Next you should fix those nozzles.

[Shaun Evans]

Hi Fellas!

I'm about to start building my second one for T-power. I don't need these EDF units, so they're on RCGroups if anyone wants some of these new. Also, this kit came with the 'upgraded' servos for the stabs. Are these any good? How do they compare to the Hitec D85's? Thanks!

Dang, NADA, huh?

[Airguardian]

Looking good!

[Shaun Evans]

Hi Fellas!

I'm about to start building my second one for T-power. I don't need these EDF units, so they're on RCGroups if anyone wants some of these new. Also, this kit came with the 'upgraded' servos for the stabs. Are these any good? How do they compare to the Hitec D85's? Thanks!

[t33jetman]

[nuts-n-volts]

Now we're talkin'! Bravo, Jetman! Love the mod. Freewing should have done this right the 1st time.

[t33jetman]

Here is a video of my gear door , landing light mock up testing.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...00000760474843

[GliderGuy]

In an attempt to get the info out to more folks, I thought that cross posting would help.

I have deleted all the cross posts that the system would allow and will leave the thread in the RADIOS AND RECEIVERS thread.

-GG