Official Freewing 90mm F-16 V2 EDF Jet Thread

[Evan D]

Interesting no one else has posted they got one or their impressions....

Mine is ready for the maiden. I said before that the battery area was good... Not so fast Evan. there is good room fore and aft and my 640g 6S and 250g 2S placed about 1 1/4" forward of the rear most possible location gives me a balance just aft of the book mark. Room to move aft as I expect it will need, or even forward. My batteries are 52mm and20mm wide and the battery area is just right for that but no extra room. They 42mm tall, 45mm where the battery leads are. If you are 6S and have the leads towards the back there is plenty of room under the canopy. If you are 8S and have the leads going forward then looping back with a series connector you'll have a clearance problem under the canopy. I use T connectors which are very small compared to XT or EC5 or other connectors and I had to dremel some foam and have to be very careful where the wires go across the top (no room to the sides) of the batteries. There is no room with the 8S batteries being placed more rearward for balance to have the battery leads and series connector facing aft.

And I haven't said it but this is a very heavy plane.

[EDF-Jetpilot]

I feel this way about all jets. The issue is there are many that don't have access to a paved runway.

Eine A-10 oder eine Viper-Jet wäre da viel die bessere Wahl auf der Graspiste, die haben breite Fahrwerke, aber leider keine F-16, egal welche.

[Evan D]

I feel this way about all jets. The issue is there are many that don't have access to a paved runway.

Ich nicht, das will ich auch nicht. Eine F-16 ist in diesen Größen einfach kein Jet für Graspisten... das ändert leider nie, weil eine F-16 immer zum Kippen neigt auf Gras... und dann ist jeweils die Nase weg.

[EDF-Jetpilot]

Anyone tried grass field yet?

Ich nicht, das will ich auch nicht. Eine F-16 ist in diesen Größen einfach kein Jet für Graspisten... das ändert leider nie, weil eine F-16 immer zum Kippen neigt auf Gras... und dann ist jeweils die Nase weg.

[Reptielenfreak]

Anyone tried grass field yet?

[Evan D]

Notes; Plenty of battery room for the 6+2 5200 I use. Haven't got it fully assembled yet, still working on wiring but balance should be okay too. I should know later this evening (all done and no issue balancing it at the box spot and there's room to move them back to where I think the CG will end up being). The airbrakes go on with one screw and there are also two mounting posts and it seems flimsy. But they work really well on the bench. Can't stuff wires behind the MCBe as that's open air to the fan intake. I am bypassing the MCBe except for gear and lights and have it rotated 90deg and the receiver next to it. Very easy to bypass as it' s one aileron wire per side, one stab per side and the rudder and steering. I also have an Assan steering gyro in mine. Great quality and no quality issues to note yet except the ball links, they are heavier duty grey ones and don't have a strong snap onto the metal balls. I tried attaching them both directions and the side that has two small molding dots seems a bit stronger but not much. Another note is the screws, they are all allen head and some are machine and some sheet metal/ wood screw type. The only place they show using the non-machine type is for the stab pivot shafts into the fuselage. The ends of these are pointy and it seems a flat end would be better so I flattened the end with a dremel. Also there ended up being a lot of spare non-machine ones (they were for the wing tip rails) and no spares of the machine ones. They really need to review what they call them or have a big picture of each and also a list where they show the parts telling you where each screw goes. They only mod I think this need (bypassing isn't really a mod to me) is the stab shafts should have flat spots on them where you tighten down the set screws in the wheel collar type fixing rings. All the planes that have these wheel collar type retainers should have this.

[Reptielenfreak]

A warning:



They Warn NOT to run the jet for more than 30min continualy

[paulrkytek]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juds-t36qC0 for chinese version

[paulrkytek]

The Freewing Chinese intro video is good if you read the subtitles

[MetallDanny]

[MetallDanny]

There was mentions of people concernt about the 2x 4s 5000mah. With a paralel connector.. how other than this do you connect them?

Dont use the bencraft serie connector
I lost mine zeus8s with it. It was to hot and solder came loose 😱😭
I solder mine own and use this with my second zeus 8s

[EDF-Jetpilot]

I have 8S but never use them. I use a 6+2 for 8S.

Mir ist das mit mehrerer Akkus zu kompliziert

[Evan D]

I have 8S but never use them. I use a 6+2 for 8S.

Ich habe 4x 8S LiPos mit 5000mA/h, mit denen kann ich gut 20min. fliegen. Da brauchst du keine Y-Kabel und es gibt keine Probleme.

[EDF-Jetpilot]

There was mentions of people concernt about the 2x 4s 5000mah. With a paralel connector.. how other than this do you connect them?

Ich habe 4x 8S LiPos mit 5000mA/h, mit denen kann ich gut 20min. fliegen. Da brauchst du keine Y-Kabel und es gibt keine Probleme.

[Evan D]

Series connector.

[Reptielenfreak]

There was mentions of people concernt about the 2x 4s 5000mah. With a paralel connector.. how other than this do you connect them?

[EDF-Jetpilot]

Ich habe gestern die 8S Version bestellt... hoffe die Lieferung in die Schweiz kommt auch bald.

[Evan D]

Thanks Tom!

[Tom]

Thank you to all who have ordered so far. I hope you love this plane as much as we do. It looks like they are going to arrive here in IL a day early! Assuming they show up tomorrow morning as scheduled, we will send out all pre-orders tomorrow (Friday).

[EDF-Jetpilot]

Does anyone know if the V2 landing gear will fit in the V1 plane? Does anyone know where to find gear parts for V1? specifically looking for the front gear strut.

im Internet findet man alles von Freewing... man muss manchmal nur ein bisschen weltoffen sein. ;-)