FW F86

[DCORSAIR]

Will they ever come out with an updated version of this bird with beefier landing gear ?

You just have to grease it in and the cg plays a big part of that. Mine are the original retracts with lots and lots of flights, only thing I had to do was replace the circuit board in one retract, micro switch broke and let the stop on the worm gear go past its limit.

[weedsnager]

Will they ever come out with an updated version of this bird with beefier landing gear ?

[Alpha10]

It's such a great plane... Almost a 6s entry level plane IMHO, but the size really should've warranted us a 90mm. That would've been awesome!

I had to run a hot and lightweight setup to get it to 119mph, but she's there so I can't complain too much. : )

Just be careful taxiing in a strong crosswind.. It'll get under the wing and flip it over pretty quickly. Just ask my scuffed canopies haha!

[DCORSAIR]

I really enjoy my F-86 as well, and it was free. One of the guys I used to fly with crashed it into a fence and broke it in half so he gave it to me for free, the crash also took a chunk of foam out of the wing, nothing else was to bad so I got out my old rebuilding skills and went to work on it, if you look at the wing, almost at the tip you can see the balsa I glued into the chunk of foam missing, sanded it and used permanent marker to stripe it, turned out great, it has so many flights on it I lost count. By far one of the best 80mm EDF jets.

[gooniac33]

The F-86 is still the fave of my group of fliers!!

[dkalwishky]

I would also appreciate any feedback you may care to provide on the document itself.

First impressions after a quick look is WOW, nice job!

[Lon]

Bradm, very good document for those upgrades!!

[Bradm5312]

Install Inrunner EDF and Brakes

I upgraded my F-86 by installing the inrunner EDF and electric brakes. The attached document shows the details of the components and steps I used. I hope this will be helpful for anyone else considering these upgrades.

I would also appreciate any feedback you may care to provide on the document itself. I’ve received a lot of help from other hobbyists over the years and would like to give back to the RC community. In general, would you find documents like this helpful? Is there too much detail or not enough? What kind of topics would you like to see addressed? If you care to provide feedback to help me better serve the RC community, please PM me or send email to yourrcompanion@indy.rr.com.

Brad

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Morning flights

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A recent flight

[xplaneguy]

WOW!!! I really like this scheme! Now if we could get freewing to make an F-105 THUD in the same paint scheme!!!!

Thanks Ray, much appreciated. :)

[gooniac33]

Thanks fellow RCers for the reply. Will look at other jets for hand launching!

The smaller Freewing 64mm F-86 is meant for hand launching. that one is perfect!!

[gooniac33]

A tip of the hat to all Vietnam Veterans....thank you for your service!

WOW!!! I really like this scheme! Now if we could get freewing to make an F-105 THUD in the same paint scheme!!!!

[xplaneguy]

I had to double-take those F-86 photos, Tony! Looks real, especially with the painted gear struts. Nice!

Thanks Alpha. It was a fun repaint to honor our Vietnam Vets.

[F106DeltaDart]

Thanks fellow RCers for the reply. Will look at other jets for hand launching!

Take a look at the 64mm Freewing Panther and F-22. Both jets are great fliers and are designed for hand launching.

[tsunderl]

Thanks fellow RCers for the reply. Will look at other jets for hand launching!

[Alpha]

I had to double-take those F-86 photos, Tony! Looks real, especially with the painted gear struts. Nice!

[Alpha]

tsunderl, I've seen only one pilot hand toss his Freewing 80mm F-86 consistently and successfully. It flew great but even he admitted it was a lot of effort when he would have been fine with keeping the landing gear and retaining the option to takeoff and land on wheels instead of walking out to go get it after every landing. Officially I wouldn't recommend these mods because this is not how I designed the aircraft to be operated. But for the record, here are the things he did to his aircraft:

1) Removed all three landing gear
2) Taped over the nose gear well completely
3) Taped over the main landing gear well partially, leaving the centermost area untaped so he could put his fingers inside to grip the aircraft for tossing
4) Added adhesive grip tape to that area of the inner well for more positive traction against his fingers
5) Also Dremeled impressions for his fingers in the fuselage just behind the wing root for better traction with a full hand grip.
6) Removed the flap servos, and taped the flap surfaces in the up position.
7) Installed servo horn protectors. I believe they were the ones produced by our friend Keith at www.parkflyerplastics.com: http://parkflyerplastics.com/cart/in...roducts_id=315
8) Used the Admiral 6s 4000mAh PRO battery. not the 5000. Sometimes he used an even lighter 3600 (I'm unsure of the brand).

With a slight headwind and very strong toss gripped just behind while at full power, his F-86 took off very well. Vertical is a subjective thing; honestly it wasn't amazingly faster or more spirited without the gear, but it was lighter and even easier to land than it already is. If you're concerned with performance on your grass runway because it's rough, then I can see exploring the option of hand tossing the aircraft if you really want this specific aircraft and not a smaller more hand launch friendly aircraft. If you're concerned about stock performance with the weight of the landing gear, I filmed this video of Xplaneguy flying his completely stock Freewing 80mm F-86 Sabre. It's an older camera with poor zoom but you get the idea of how the plane isn't a slouch.

If you have an appropriate runway and are thinking about hand launching "just because"... again I'd recommend against it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1TUM4YYVdc

[xplaneguy]

A tip of the hat to all Vietnam Veterans....thank you for your service!

[F106DeltaDart]

At this size and wieght, I would imagine that it would be quite difficult to hand launch. At the least, the servos and linkages would need to protected. I stripped a flap servo from regular use, so I can't imagine they would take belly landing well unprotected.