Official Freewing 90mm F-22 Raptor V2 Discussion Thread

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Hoping to maiden next week

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Wing strobe light installation pics involve no cutting of wings for installation. I simply use thumb nail to press strobe wires into stock groove after pulling up stock wire tape to expose wires. Using blue box blinker ports as power source. Sorry pis are out of order.

[airmanhurley]

Looks good urrl! I really dig the drop tanks.

Nerdy fact- the F-22 has RED anti-collision lights in its 3-light assemblies on the wingtip. There's forward-facing red/green (respectively) position lights, 360° red A/C's, and rear-facing white position lights. It also has several pilot-switchable modes for the lighting.

I did the red/green positions and red A/C's on my V1 Raptor... plus ran servo extensions for the ailerons/flaps (replacing the ribbon cable)--what a nightmare it was to pull all those through the channel. There's either a hard bend in there, or maybe the pocket for the wing spar is in the way... Idk. But Freewing is definitely installing the ribbon cables before the fuselage is glued together.

[urrl]

Looks good urrl! I really dig the drop tanks.

Nerdy fact- the F-22 has RED anti-collision lights in its 3-light assemblies on the wingtip. There's forward-facing red/green (respectively) position lights, 360° red A/C's, and rear-facing white position lights. It also has several pilot-switchable modes for the lighting.

I did the red/green positions and red A/C's on my V1 Raptor... plus ran servo extensions for the ailerons/flaps (replacing the ribbon cable)--what a nightmare it was to pull all those through the channel. There's either a hard bend in there, or maybe the pocket for the wing spar is in the way... Idk. But Freewing is definitely installing the ribbon cables before the fuselage is glued together.

Yes I was faced with that problem also. I used the wing spar to punch a hole through the side of the fuse to route wires into the battery bay. You are correct with the collision lights also.

https://youtu.be/gQD442fN6Vg?si=fh1r2QBI76S_SxR-

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I swapped out my blinking white wing collision lights, soldering in red. Like them much better! Thanks for the tip!

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When plugging in battery fan only beeps 3 times but seems to run fine.

[Evan D]

That’s right for 8S a long beep and three short ones.

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Crazy maiden. First I misinterpreted manual neutral elevator position. Had to trim to full up on Tx to keep it flying. Landed safely BUT steering malfunctioned. Discovered upon landing nose gear lost the steering set screw somewhere on the runway. I could not find it so I jerry rigged the nose gear for the next flights. Last landing was best with the drop tanks. Video coming.

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Here's the maiden and second flight with wing tanks.

[xviper]

That first take off was kinda scary. Did you have a severe rearward CG? Where did you get the wing tanks and pylons? They look neat.

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That first take off was kinda scary. Did you have a severe rearward CG? Where did you get the wing tanks and pylons? They look neat.

The CG was perfect. I misinterpreted the manual diagram on the neutral elevator position causing it to dive until i ran out of up elevator trim on the Tx. I said this on my previous post. I adjusted the neutral position as seen on the video and the second flight went well even with drop tanks. The pylons themselves are part of the wing tanks.

Wing tanks are from F-16 V2. I happened to have an extra set of F16 wings so I removed the pylon anchors and glued them into F22 wings.

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Pylon anchor from F16 V2 wing ...Gorrilla glued into F22 wing

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Tanks are then detachable

[xviper]

Wing tanks .......................... Got it.