Official Freewing 90mm F-16 V2 EDF Jet Thread

[f4u ausie]

Not quite ready 4 maiden yet but close.... So thought would take the opportunity. To ask the team about. The obvious.

CG was thinking 10 mm behind the mark??? And travells.. will fly scale. Is the 19 mm good starting point.. and is elevator travel measured at the Front.. it will have a plus receiver fitted.. thanx on advance

[urrl]

Awesome paint. i would have maidened first before all of that work but I sincerely hope all goes well !

[Evan D]

Why risk it….

[f4u ausie]

Thanx evan unuf 4 me

[Evan D]

I'd replace.

[f4u ausie]

Well next week is here!!!! Can't believe it is here so quickly..
What a piece of art..
Gear is awesome 😎. Will do surgery to b happy with the the. Elevator shafts... But nothing major..

But my main concern. It has the red esc... Rocky mountain RC had some!! And friends.. smoke fire trouble . And replaced by motion... That won't happen 4 me. Point. Do I need to try first.. or. Just replace it..(esc). Loottssa. Ordinance with it. B safe and thanx in advance

[Aros]

That is a lot of work. Well done!

[f4u ausie]

I agree. Eye popping paint. Awesome

[Elbee]

lusek_pl

WOW, what a beautiful repaint, Sir.

Nicely done.

Best, LB

[lusek_pl]

https://youtube.com/shorts/xI1iLmnTRoE?si=ysAWWQdAM8w4j32n

I finally finished painting, ready to maiden flight

[f4u ausie]

Got me one of these suckers coming Next week. I think 💬.. it's 6s pnp. But have fms 1500 kV fms fan new also..may go with 6 first then change to 8 as I did on the f4

[Aros]

What he said!

[urrl]

urrl,

Great looking F-16.

Looks very realistic on the tarmac and flies like a champ.

Nicely done, Sir.

Best, LB

Thanks!

[Elbee]

urrl,

Great looking F-16.

Looks very realistic on the tarmac and flies like a champ.

Nicely done, Sir.

Best, LB

[urrl]

[luv2fly2]

Hi

Check out the RCGeek printed belly tank!

interested in sellng that one{longEz) in the back ground?

[urrl]

Morning flight

[shortround91]

Copy that, thanks. Love the BA F-22 scheme!

Thank ya watched them as a kid at the Willow Grove Airforce base all my childhood

[Aros]

Copy that, thanks. Love the BA F-22 scheme!

[shortround91]

Boy oh boy has this been a bad week.

First I lose my Freewing 90mm F-18 on the maiden. Uncontrollable, got away from me and crashed in thick woods about a half a mile away. Tried to locate with my drone to no avail. I decided to get the bad taste out of my mouth so I went to fly my recently painted 90mm F-16 V2 (hauntingly in retrospect, a fantasy Blue Angels livery). The maiden was great, just needed to trim her out. So today was going to be trim the flight. Usual pre-flight checklist, everything normal, battery secure, CG good, control surfaces all good, power good.

Took off on the recently mowed grass field, she started pulling to the right getting close to the edge of the runway but with enough left rudder she kicked back out and then rotated. Almost imediately I could tell it wanted to pitch up and roll to the right. I fought the sticks with all I could, jamming aileron stick full left but it ignored my inputs and nosed in.

Two new 90mm jets in one week.

At least I was able to retrieve it, broken front and all. Front LG is bent all to hell aft, will need major repairs from the cockpit forward, but from the cockpit back it's pretty much fine, just a little cosmetic damage on the H stabs. And like the F-18, I have NO idea what happened. After the Walk of Shame, I put it on the bench and plugged the battery in (thankfully the 8S battery was undamaged), and everything worked normally. All control surfaces, everything.

You ever have those days you feel like quitting the hobby, or at least jets? That's how I've felt this week.

Had several like that totaled a 90 F15 not a clue and 2 70 Raptors in one day. Thankfully the V2 90 F16 didn’t disappoint but I get your pain, I have fully rebuilt converted to 8s remaiden I have no idea was not the same plane. Finally yesterday I said the hell with it do or die spent the whole day working her back out. Ended up having to scrap and factory reset the AR8360t finally after 5 flights she’s back to around 90% I do have the reduced nozzles that I’m going to remove think they choke her down on 8s. Pick your head up and head back out Sir