All-New Freewing PJ50 Twin 70mm EDF Jet - Official Thread

[Elbee]

Merry Christmas, Woody. Great to read your voice. Best, LB

[Woodcock]

Nice addition, those who know me a little know I'm not here much, busy doing other things. Ya couldn't just call it a Gulfstream, LOL. Well if I wasn't busy flying the real thing, (IE 737) I would, or may still get one of these. Be ashamed if I died before I could fly it though. Hope you folks are doing well.

Best Regards
Woody

[ArmorBolt]

I did some more detail checks.. here are some major differences.

1) Wing and its connector (attached pictures). It looks like the RCMotion PJ50 wing connectors with 2 reinforcement rods seems more robust to support the back gear. The Xfly wing only have 1 joint rod in front of the back gear. This could be weak to support the landing back gear. Also, I do not preferred the Xfly connector version, as the wing flex upward during flight, connector could be stressed and loose contact and you would loose airelons controls.. but then again the plane is not going 200mph with high G turn to reach that stressing point.. so just my opinion here..

2) Motor are different with ESC. PJ50 (2x 2952-2100Kv Inrunner ) . Xfly motors(2 x 2860-KV2200 inrunner ). Not sure which is more efficient or faster..

3) Landing gear looks different.. not sure which is better..

4) PJ50 ESC is mounted in bottom back, where Xfly ESC seems to be mounted on wing belly. No big issue in either design here.

[xviper]

40 bucks in that price point isn’t much.
PS. They both look very similar to me, too. I don’t take too seriously when some say one is more “scale” than the other. When they both go by at 100+ mph, I’d be hard pressed to pick one from the other. Any “preference” will be very personal for most buyers, based on how it looks to them, who made it, who sells it, who does the after-the-sale service and which product spokesperson acted like an idiot on the forums.

[MeyerVW]

There are some differences. Retracts, control horns, esc location. I think the big diffence is in the hardware. Atleast that I can see.

[ArmorBolt]

So far is there any pro and con comparison of the Xfly bzjet version and Motion RC PJ50.. beside the price points. Can anyone comment on why Motion version is $599 and Xfly is $559. They looks identical beside which paint scheme you preferred.

[Evan D]

Dang skippy! Giving out free healthcare but my Medicare costs are going up.

My taxes at work… U R welcome.

On a less serious note, also looking forward to your reports.

-GG

PS: Nothing is “free”.

[JLambCWU]

The new PJ50 from Freewing Model and Motion RC. First flight impression for James Boughen

[James]

Got it out yesterday for a bunch of flights. here are 2 them:

[GliderGuy]

Thanking Biden for the free money

My taxes at work… U R welcome.

On a less serious note, also looking forward to your reports.

-GG

PS: Nothing is “free”.

[Elbee]

I just did a preorder on both the Freewing and the Xfly amd also the new Mig-25, I will have great christmas presents next year

RFM, Welcome to Hobby Squawk, Sir. WOW, what a great treat. I hope you can provide insight to both civilian aircraft models here. Looking forward to seeing your builds. Best, LB

[mshagg]

Just back from a great day of flying the PJ. Did numerous flights just touching and going and what a doll at slow speeds. Keep your eyes posted for the video. I'll share here when its ready. Probably tomorrow

It feels like poor form to talk about another manufacturers product here, so I won't, but suffice to say, freewing will always be the 'known quantity'. They know how to make a plane fly 'right' acoess the full flight envelope (ever had a bad one?) and have been developing the PJ50 for longer than some of its competitors have been in the market.

Not to say they can't be beat, but IMO pretty brave move trashing FW given their track record.

[Gilatrout]

Just back from a great day of flying the PJ. Did numerous flights just touching and going and what a doll at slow speeds. Keep your eyes posted for the video. I'll share here when its ready. Probably tomorrow

Excellent. Looking forward to more eye candy

[Elbee]

Great sleuthing, Sir.

[xviper]

Why are you here then. You work for for Xfly? You just came here to talk trash

You may be right about him. Maybe not actually work for X-Fly but a shill of some kind:

https://www.hobbysquawk.com/forum/rc-airplanes/rc-civil-commercial-jets/332425-xfly-twin-70mm-j65

[Captain Cruze]

Perfect! AL37 too big. I am waiting on a check to clear and I'm ordering. So beautiful! Always wanted my own private jet! lol

[SanExup]

James Looking forward to seeing more. Thanks.

Both companies have put a lot of effort into bringing a nice sized bizjet to us. Both companies are going to have to split the market share. Both offerings have their plusses and minuses.

Ultimately the competition will drive both companies to bring better products to market. We reap the benefit.

I spent my money where I wanted to.

I'm hoping it starts a pricing war!

[xviper]

Nope Xkaren. There scale gear and no the wheels aren't the same .

USeeNothing.

[Elbee]

X-Fly has a close up of their main struts now and guess what? They are also TRAILING LINKS. And those nose wheels? Virtually identical. And those main wheels? One is no uglier or better looking than the other. (If you hate Victoria Secret, then ALL their models are ugly. )

[Elbee]

XV, similarly, you've made your point. Thank you. Self-delete at your pleasure. Best, LB