Official Freewing 80mm MiG-21 Fishbed Thread

[Hardway]

Welcome krkan and great job on the Mig! Love that jet! Jerry Very Nice!!!

[Alpha]

Hi everyone, justfound out about this group. So short intro, Profesional pilot with some jet expirience and big Mig lover as bunch of my friends are still operational pilots on it in my country Croatia, and some one of them flying active Rc.
This is my second Freewing Mig, so i/m just addicted ;)
regards Tom

krkan Hi Tom, welcome to Hobby Squawk! Is that you or your friend flying the real MiG?! I'm so happy that you enjoy your Freewing MiG-21, our development team worked long hours to achieve our goals of a well flying Fishbed. I like your paint scheme, it appears you did salt weathering on the surface? Or was it another type of weathering technique?

[krkan]

Thanks, first pic is from official Croatian Airforce exhibition as top scale fling model, as you can see lot of scratch build details on this one.

[Twowingtj]

krkan Welcome to Hobby Squawk! Well done on your Mig. It looks great both, in the air and on the ground. I haven't seen another one done like it.

[krkan]

[krkan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDMsSR9ETcs

[krkan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxJTVlOp5tE&t=7s

[krkan]

Hi everyone, justfound out about this group. So short intro, Profesional pilot with some jet expirience and big Mig lover as bunch of my friends are still operational pilots on it in my country Croatia, and some one of them flying active Rc.
This is my second Freewing Mig, so i/m just addicted ;)
regards Tom

[Jlee]

Thanks Alpha, all stock for now.

[Alpha]

Jlee Welcome to Hobby Squawk! I like your yellow MiG, it looks cherry. Which power system are you running in it? Stock?

[Hardway]

Nice!!! Welcome to Hobby Squawk Jlee! Glad you are here!!! The Mig is a keeper for sure! Jerry

[Jlee]

Finally had to get a MIG 21 all painted and weathered, Maiden went well, still need a little fine tuning but great flyer

[tengarang]

The most amazing aftermarket afterburner kit money can buy is the lightburner

it took me 3 mins to set everything up just like putting some legos together simple easy and good to go, get yours today at the lightburner

[gooniac33]

I got some more flights this past weekend but need to publish those videos. Here is one from a couple weeks ago that I didn't get to share. Tight quarters but man does this plane excel in tight spaces! Seeing this big ole bird whipping by at eye level, at full speed with afterburner shining bright is a sight to see! Will have some professional videos made here pretty soon that will be showing this stuff off much better than my hat cam can. That will do it justice! Stay tuned for that... enjoy the flight!

[gooniac33]

Man! No wonder it's so sensative. I guess on the Mig a little goes a long way. Thank you for the advise i will definitely put it to use. Like I said i really like the way it sounds its much louder than my f86 or even an Avanti. Plus with the aluminum covering, it down right sparkles in the air. Thanks again

If you follow the manuals recommendations for the Mig-21 you will be in for a wild ride!! cut your throws to half of what they recommend and use expo to your liking. It also helps to use a little bit of a aileron to rudder mix to keep the rolls axial. It helped mine a ton by doing that!

[cashmoneybrother]

Man! No wonder it's so sensative. I guess on the Mig a little goes a long way. Thank you for the advise i will definitely put it to use. Like I said i really like the way it sounds its much louder than my f86 or even an Avanti. Plus with the aluminum covering, it down right sparkles in the air. Thanks again

[tengarang]

Thanks for the advice.. I really do look forward to flying it. All the YouTube videos make this jet look like an absolute blast to fly!!!

For the mig all you got to do is take the factor settings and divide by 2 and generally apply 45% expo to all control surfaces....and call that your high rate, and set your other rates from there at your discretion. no gyro needed just keep it simple

[cashmoneybrother]

Thanks for the advice.. I really do look forward to flying it. All the YouTube videos make this jet look like an absolute blast to fly!!!

[DCORSAIR]

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Wow! I had the same experience. My mig has been in the air 3 times and it was down right scary. I purchased a gyro but have yet to intall it. All setting are by the book so I'm definitely going to dial everything down. Thanks for the info. Hopefully i can dial this bird in.. Couse she sure looks pretty in the air and sounds even better!

Your jet looks awesome by the way and you just need to dial it down and put more flights on it every chance you get and you will get the hang of how it flies, it is different in some ways compared to other jets I have flown, first thing I do on all my jets is move the linkages in one or two holes on the servo horn side, this always helps maiden flights go well and not so scary, I fly with no expo or dual rates anyway so this is how I soften the controls, the Mig is easy to over control it, when I first got one I thought, I don't know about this one but after figuring out how it likes to fly, it is now one of my favorites, landing in the wind is hilarious, it just hangs there waiting for you to lower the throttle and settle it down in a nice AOA landing. Mine is stock, no gyro and it will go vertical on take off and loop over the top headed the opposite way in no time, fun jet, I'm not a big Mig fan but this one turned out to be so much fun to fly I decided to keep it..........:)

[cashmoneybrother]

Here she is covered in aluminum https://youtu.be/Rt6xWaTPIic