Official Freewing 90mm F-16 V2 EDF Jet Thread

[shortround91]

Thank you my friend, and I agree! Everything Blue Angels!

One of my Blue Angel schemes

[Topshot19]

Anyone got a stl file for an ecm pod I can put on my belly pylon on my 90 f16 v2?????
Dirty Dee I saw your file on cults. Would it work? The attachment points just look a little far back.

[Ks.jetflyer]

I know this is the ver.2 thread, but I acquired a ver 1 T-bird. It needs a lot of tlc. Found out all of the wing mounts, fuse and the wings are broke. I know you can get replacement parts, but I thought they were molded in. Anybody have any experience replacing them? Or should I salvage what I can and pitch the foam? Any thoughts or advice appreciated.

[Aros]

Thanks Hugh Wiedman!

[Hugh Wiedman]

Happy Father’s Day to all the pops out there!

I slapped Frankenbird with a ton of Gorilla Tape last night and took her back out for a potential redemption flight. Used the crappy mat runway to the suggestion of a long time club member and she flew great!

Imagine, just needing adequate airspeed for takeoff.

🤦♂️

She may not be as pretty and pristine but she still flies!

WOW, exceptional work. I've got several jets that have a ton of spackle, epoxy, paint, etc. to the front section requiring additional weights in the tail to keep my balance point, so that's just par for the course.

No one except you will even know that it's "got a past history", especially in the air.

Another suggestion that helps on grass. 8S provides more take-off power on grass, but believe your F16 is 8S. On my F16, V1, I programmed flaperons which help as well. Additionally, if you have enough channels for each aileron (for flaperons), if you can put each elevator stab on it's own channel, you can mix in elevons/tailerons (or whatever they're called) which give you much better roll control at slow speeds than just ailerons. I've done this on my F16 as well as my SU-27 and Mig 29 and it works much better than just ailerons at slow speed. On the F16, I mixed it on a 3 position switch, giving no tailerons, or 50% or 75%. Mig is 100% all the time.

Think about having those 2 things done, easy to set up and will help greatly in take off and landing.

[f4u ausie]

Great work best part it was not the radio setup

[Evan D]

That's awesome Aros. You have to do what you have to do.

[Aros]

Happy Father’s Day to all the pops out there!

I slapped Frankenbird with a ton of Gorilla Tape last night and took her back out for a potential redemption flight. Used the crappy mat runway to the suggestion of a long time club member and she flew great!

Imagine, just needing adequate airspeed for takeoff.

🤦♂️

She may not be as pretty and pristine but she still flies!

[xviper]

Been there, done that. 3 planes taking a dirt nap in one day.

[Elbee]

Boy oh boy...That's how I've felt this week.

[Aros]

happens, but so sorry, we've all been there. With that said, one issue may stem from you now taking off from grass. You've been used to a quick and fast take off roll getting the jet up to rotation speed with no delays. I'll wager you are now rotating at a slower speed on grass than you used to on asphalt. Greater potential for a stall or resulting in severely wonky control on take off.

I had to be mindful of that when I went to grass at first as well, waiting a bit longer to rotate.

Stalls on these jets tend to roll to the left, so doubt the F16 stalled, but may have not quite had enough air speed to give you complete control.

You know I bet you are dead on. It probably rotated sooner than I needed her to due to the grab of the grass and being hugged against the edge of the runway where there is 3 foot tall grass waiting for your plane to plow into causing precisely what happened since I needed to lift NOW.

The reason I took off so close to the edge is because our club has an ancient mat runway just taking up most of the field real estate.

To say it’s not an ideal field is an understatement.

Sigh.

That wasn’t the case for the F-18 which remains a total enigma.

[Hugh Wiedman]

Boy oh boy has this been a bad week.

Two new 90mm jets in one

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

happens, but so sorry, we've all been there. With that said, one issue may stem from you now taking off from grass. You've been used to a quick and fast take off roll getting the jet up to rotation speed with no delays. I'll wager you are now rotating at a slower speed on grass than you used to on asphalt. Greater potential for a stall or resulting in severely wonky control on take off.

I had to be mindful of that when I went to grass at first as well, waiting a bit longer to rotate.

Stalls on these jets tend to roll to the left, so doubt the F16 stalled, but may have not quite had enough air speed to give you complete control.

[Evan D]

Sorry.

[f4u ausie]

Was going hit the like... But. Holly crap batman.. not only is it crap,,. It's also expensive so my heart felt condolences... I can feel ya pain from here.

[Aros]

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.

[f4u ausie]

Thanku rfreak ye I'm on grass so should slow enuf

[Reptielenfreak]

I'm expecting (hopefully to purchase a new plane next 3 or 4 weeks). .I'm thinking this one or V2 A10
.no questions regarding A10 but this one has no flaps.. so does it slow down enuf with speed brakes ..? Or r flaperons req..? If so is it difficult to program now I'm on spektrum . I can fly the f4 sure I can fly this... Love the aggressor scheme on this. Maybe A10 better option... But I'm sure it'll be 1 or the other

I can recommand the battery tray mod done by Jon 2brths rc. Makes it take of really fast, no flaps needed i.m.o. also the airbrakes are oke but thrust reverse will help more i think. If you manage to bring it in i have enough to get it to stop in 80meters. Gear is really good, i have a bumpy carpeted runway on top of grass field and this handeld a lot of landings, some better then others 😅 can recommand the low bounce wheels.
i think (i have the a10 aswell) you will eventuely like the f16 more, less battery and i.m.o. more kick out of flying it.

[f4u ausie]

Thanx evan

[Evan D]

The air brakes work okay. I do have flaperons on this and all my other F-16’s.

[f4u ausie]

I'm expecting (hopefully to purchase a new plane next 3 or 4 weeks). .I'm thinking this one or V2 A10
.no questions regarding A10 but this one has no flaps.. so does it slow down enuf with speed brakes ..? Or r flaperons req..? If so is it difficult to program now I'm on spektrum . I can fly the f4 sure I can fly this... Love the aggressor scheme on this. Maybe A10 better option... But I'm sure it'll be 1 or the other