Official Freewing 80mm MiG-21 Fishbed Thread

[HEMS-DRIVER]

[tengarang]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu6TDPCf2r8

[DougV]

Hi Alpha,

Do you have a timeframe for pre-orders?

Thanks for another awesome model.

Doug

[quitcherbitchen]

I will take a Silver one. I want North Vietnam Air Force decals.

[TSHobbies]

That looks pretty sweet..sounds like a possibility for novice to EDF pilots maybe?

[HEMS-DRIVER]

Were gonna need an F-4 To shoot it down! "hint hint"

[Alpha]

Hi DougV, sorry I haven't responded yet. Quite busy around here over the past few days with both visible and behind the scenes work. To answer your question, we're targeting a summer release of the Freewing 80mm MiG-21. We want to wait until the first shipment is finishing production or is already on the water before beginning the pre-order. Where things are as of today I would estimate a pre-order opening in ~4-6 weeks. Plenty of time to begin saving. After several recent products which we unveiled and started the pre-order for on the same day, which came as a surprise to many people, this time around we wanted to give everyone a bit more of a "sneak peak" to know what was coming down the pipeline so they can start saving.

I cannot decide which camo to paint, so I have to save for at least two if not three of these MiGs in my personal fleet. After 50+ years of service, there are many paint schemes to choose from! Some menacing, some brutish, some vibrant, some classic. Decisions, decisions!

In the meantime we'll continue to put the MiG-21 into as many hands as possible for demo flights. PVMAC in two weeks, Crows Landing next month, etc. I might actually ship one to SEFF this week. 10% chance but it is a possibility.

[crxmanpat]

Camo patterns!






Was very happy to see this in person on Saturday. It flew awesome on the stock 6S 80mm outrunner system. Just please please please give us rocket pods and AA-1 or AA-2 missiles! Pretty please! :D

[crxmanpat]

Some pics I took on Saturday.

[tengarang]

Those are some great looking pics Pat! And looking forward to the summer release Alpha! Cant wait.

[dahawk]

I'm all in ! Payroll deduction plan in the works ....

[tomme21]

amazing jet, been waiting on this for along time, even before HET came out with their 70mm one. Thanks motion!

[Addison]

This last weekend I had the honor of flying this amazing bird. Besides its amazing presence, in the air and on the ground, some of the key highlights that I noticed were its excellent flight qualities. The Mig was very stable with no wing rocking or pitching tendencies with airspeed or flap deployment. It also has excellent ground handling qualities, as it tracked nice and straight down the runway. My only issue is that it looks so much like the real aircraft(heavy iron), is that I found myself coming in a little fast on approach and it would float on down the runway. In actuality this aircraft is a sheep in wolfs clothing, it lands amazingly slow and is surprisingly gentle in its flying/landing characteristics, yet definately looks the part with its scale realism. I will have to get one as soon as they become available. Good job Alpha!!!

[OsideRCflyer]

Awesome!!!!!!!

[DougV]

I am ready for it....:D

Doug

[dkalwishky]

Rather than wait until the final model was already on the water, as we've done with most of the recent pre-orders, Freewing asked us to announce the MiG-21 a little early, during the Apollo/Motion RC Fun Fly we held today and tomorrow. The MiG-21 is currently in production and we'll have complete details on the website within a couple of weeks.

Morning Alpha, I'm wondering when we will be able to preorder. Can you tell I'm excited for this EDF? :)

[Flybynite]

I wish Freewing would have released a Mig 15 in the 80-90mm variety.

[xplaneguy]

A few recent photos of the 80mm Mig-21 with the twin 80mm Freewing F-14 and 90mm F-104 Starfighter .

[Ron1950]

the f4 lining up for a shot on the mig was my fav pic

[AceMigKiller]

Guys, I spent the morning with Alpha a few days ago flying the Mig and the new Starfighter.

This one has been around for a little more time than the Starfighter, so I've seen the videos and had my initial impressions. I had to find out for myself what this jet is all about... long story short, I'm buying one as soon as Alpha updates the site with the pre-order!

It's big.
Lots of wing area, and a really mean looking stance that makes it pop out on the flight line.
Intake is well thought out and tons of air for a 90 if you really wanted to... *cough*Brent*cough*

It was almost tough to believe that the stock 80mm outrunner would give it the performance it deserved, but after flying it, I can assure you it definitely has no lack for power!

Acceleration is fast whether you're on the takeoff roll or punching out of slow flight - I'll attribute that to a clean intake and relatively short/unobstructed tailpipe. Vertical performance is also impressive. On my first fast climbout, Alpha had to remind me that there was a 400' ceiling for the flying site... whoops!

Slow, High Angle of Attack flying is very predictable and looks downright sinister!
I am extremely impressed with not only how slow and high you can get the nose, but how much controllability is present, all the way to the stall! By the way, stalls are a cake-walk... no wing dropping tendencies, and recovery is pretty instantaneous once you let the nose down.

I got pretty aggressive with it; the model is fully capable of snappy direction changes that look cool, but totally un-scale! Again, no bad habits, but if you take it too far and get it to stall, it'll simply drop the nose and pick up where you left off.

Landings are a breeze as well. Anyone comfortable with their landings can put this one down just as easy as any trainer. Flaps are definitely not required, but reward a skilled pilot with slow, nose high approaches... keep the elevator pressure once the main wheels have touched down for a crowd pleasing wheelie.

The versatility of this jet is way more than what I expected. I only got a few flights in so far, but can see the potential for some very cool maneuvers once I get more time in the logbook. I can definitely also see it as my "go to" jet --- the one I can simply throw up in the air and enjoy flying simpler maneuvers, or just pattern work.

Can't wait to get mine and throw on a sick paint scheme!

Vic