Official Freewing 80mm MiG-21 Fishbed Thread

[Icarus the 2nd]

Hi all,

My first post on HobbySquawk!

I joined the FW Mig-21 club yesterday :) Will read the whole thread during the next days.

I live in Belgium and visited the recently opened Motionrc eu warehouse in Holland. Was a long drive but totally worth it since I had an opportunity to meet Stuart and have a long chat with him :-)

I was their first belgian customer collecting my stuff at their warehouse :Cool:

Here's some pictures of Stuart & a happy customer.

[RCjetdude]

Hi all,

My first post on HobbySquawk!

I joined the FW Mig-21 club yesterday :) Will read the whole thread during the next days.

I live in Belgium and visited the recently opened Motionrc eu warehouse in Holland. Was a long drive but totally worth it since I had an opportunity to meet Stuart and have a long chat with him :-)

I was their first belgian customer collecting my stuff at their warehouse :Cool:

Here's some pictures of Stuart & a happy customer.

Welcome to HobbySquawk! How fortunate you are to live close enough to Motion's warehouse in Europe and to be able to meet Stuart in person! I was once in Sneek for a month and saw a guy loading an RC plane into the back of his car to go flying one day. I asked him where he flew but was not successful finding the airfield. I tried. The Mig is a good flying plane. You should enjoy it.

[Hardway]

Hi all,

My first post on HobbySquawk!

I joined the FW Mig-21 club yesterday :) Will read the whole thread during the next days.

I live in Belgium and visited the recently opened Motionrc eu warehouse in Holland. Was a long drive but totally worth it since I had an opportunity to meet Stuart and have a long chat with him :-)

I was their first belgian customer collecting my stuff at their warehouse :Cool:

Here's some pictures of Stuart & a happy customer.

Very cool!!! Welcome to Hobby Squawk!!! Enjoy the MIG 21. Nice jet!!!

[lmramos44]

Love the MiG!! Keep the speed up in the turns .....

[Icarus the 2nd]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys :-)

I'm sure I'll love this plane, the build is a joy already ;)

I added a very clear green/red led set from HobbyKing that starts to blink when the lipo cells get below 3.5V and some special landings lights as well.

Will try to have a friend with a cam standby when I do the maiden flight and will post the vid here.

[Bajora]

My blue sport schemed Mig is finally ready and in the air!

[Twowingtj]

Nice Bajora! :Cool:

[TiredIronGRB]

I got mine finished yesterday and maiden-ed it, I really like it:Cool:

[Twowingtj]

Looks good TI. Been thinking of adding this one to the hanger also. Looks like it should be pretty grass friendly. How's she handle?

[TiredIronGRB]

Looks good TI. Been thinking of adding this one to the hanger also. Looks like it should be pretty grass friendly. How's she handle?

Flies great and I've wanted one for a long time but new planes kept coming out so fast I couldn't get caught up on the ones that were all ready out when I got into EDFs so during this "breather" between planes I snatched one up. Also this thing is huge, it makes some of my 90mm planes look small.

[Bajora]

She looks REAL good there George! :Smug:

[gooniac33]

Welcome to the club Bajora!! Glad to see that you will soon be burning up the sky with this beaut!!

Well mine is getting some much needed attention... I already changed out the ailerons servos a while back but now the elevators are getting weird. When Freewing servos start buzzing they will soon go out... So the horizontal stabs were changed and the servos will be done today. Oh and I got a little heat coming out of the exhaust now... well simulated anyway. New design by a friend and will be for sale here pretty soon...

[Icarus the 2nd]

Hi all, here the maiden flight I did earlier this week … this plane rocks hard :-)

[MANFRED]

My latest effort

[MANFRED]

[RCjetdude]

That turned out really good!

[rifleman_btx]

Agreed! Very nice indeed!

[MANFRED]

Thanks guys

[Icarus the 2nd]

Manfred; nice and very visible scheme you have there :-)

[Icarus the 2nd]

Two questions: as you might have seen in my maiden vid I had some trouble rotating in time, barely got of the ground before I used up our 'runway'. Visibility was another issue lol.

Regarding the take-off:
- moved battery tray and velcro backwards already so I can move my lipos further to the back
- trimmed of the wheel doors some
- oiled the wheels
- might try to fly with the tanks next time as they shift the cg a little bit more backwards

If this won't help I can try to make the nosewheel strut 2-3mm longer.

Anything else I can do to make the take-off easier?

Regarding the visibility:
My plan is to add some brown camouflage Syrian scheme later during winter times. Meanwhile I think I'll just paint the tanks in a uniform color.

What color do you think is best to enhance the visibility?
- white?
- red?
- orange?
- ???