Official Freewing Twin 80mm/90mm A-10 Thunderbolt II Thread

[Hugh Wiedman]

Fabulous work Hugh Wiedman ! Wish we lived close, we could have some pretty cool tandems!

Hey, what's 3000 miles or so among RC buddies? I'll be there shortly, leave on light on!

[Dirty Dee]

Hugh Wiedman great work!

[themudduck]

That is really spectacular work. I love those spirals on the fan cones.

[Aros]

Fabulous work Hugh Wiedman ! Wish we lived close, we could have some pretty cool tandems!

[Hugh Wiedman]

[James]

This thread has been a little "quiet" lately with everyone exploding the MIG thread , but after almost a month after I finished the Arctic build, I finally finished (although still need to apply the clear gloss spar urethane to it) the Dirty Dee cockpit. Good thing I bought a second cockpit to work on so I was able to maiden the A-10 and get about 30 flights on it while I "occasionally" worked on the cockpit. Chris's design is absolutely fabulous and everything fits "like a glove" once you get the foam cut out correctly. This wasn't an easy rebuild (especially cutting out the correct amount of foam), but then again nothing is easy for me, and I want to thank Chris for his incredible design and others who helped me out immensely with the parts. I used a JH Hobby 1/10 scale full body pilot, same as what I put in the F-18 Canadian and he fit very nicely. The finished cockpit weighed in at 274 g, which is 170 g more than the plain stock cockpit. In order to keep my CG at 92 mm (which I felt made it perform the best for me), I had to move the 2 RT 6250 batteries back another 2 1/2 inches and move the battery straps and extend the floor under the forward battery. I had already removed the circuit board and velcro-ed it to the back port fuselage wall, but at this point, I can't get the CG any further back without going to lighter batteries, which ain't going to happen since I love the 5+ minutes of flight time coming in with 35% or more left in the tank. I know I'm repeating myself, but I love everything about this jet, which I would have never guessed even at the point that I finally purchased one! I initially thought that this might end up as a "hangar queen" but it just refuses to be left at home when I'm heading to the field. It easily replaced the Avanti as my first EDF flight of the day and the poor little Avanti hasn't been out in months.

Looks great Hugh! Any pics of the entire plane finished?

[Hugh Wiedman]

This thread has been a little "quiet" lately with everyone exploding the MIG thread , but after almost a month after I finished the Arctic build, I finally finished (although still need to apply the clear gloss spar urethane to it) the Dirty Dee cockpit. Good thing I bought a second cockpit to work on so I was able to maiden the A-10 and get about 30 flights on it while I "occasionally" worked on the cockpit. Chris's design is absolutely fabulous and everything fits "like a glove" once you get the foam cut out correctly. This wasn't an easy rebuild (especially cutting out the correct amount of foam), but then again nothing is easy for me, and I want to thank Chris for his incredible design and others who helped me out immensely with the parts. I used a JH Hobby 1/10 scale full body pilot, same as what I put in the F-18 Canadian and he fit very nicely. The finished cockpit weighed in at 274 g, which is 170 g more than the plain stock cockpit. In order to keep my CG at 92 mm (which I felt made it perform the best for me), I had to move the 2 RT 6250 batteries back another 2 1/2 inches and move the battery straps and extend the floor under the forward battery. I had already removed the circuit board and velcro-ed it to the back port fuselage wall, but at this point, I can't get the CG any further back without going to lighter batteries, which ain't going to happen since I love the 5+ minutes of flight time coming in with 35% or more left in the tank. I know I'm repeating myself, but I love everything about this jet, which I would have never guessed even at the point that I finally purchased one! I initially thought that this might end up as a "hangar queen" but it just refuses to be left at home when I'm heading to the field. It easily replaced the Avanti as my first EDF flight of the day and the poor little Avanti hasn't been out in months.

[ColtPilot]

About to start assembly of mine. I had read about strengthening/stiffening up the front of the fuselage with carbon fiber rods/tubes, one on each side. Is this a good idea ?
Bob

Yes, the addition will be beneficial. After 4 years I still need to do mine.

[Balsa Bob]

About to start assembly of mine. I had read about strengthening/stiffening up the front of the fuselage with carbon fiber rods/tubes, one on each side. Is this a good idea ?
Bob

[ColtPilot]

I guess this picture from motion there must be something non standard about it then?

Those were the first ones to come out. Many folks had the input saying what gives and was fixed. Also the penny pod is no longer used by the A-10's. As you can tell by my photo with the real deal it is no longer there. That's how it became the A-10C.

[Hiddenhanger63]

Thankfully with the open TX system your nearly guaranteed that someone has “been there and done it” 30 seconds google search comes up with all the settings and mixing needed with variable timers etc.

[xviper]

Cheers that may be a easy option, I fly with a Horus and open TX so I know it can be done it just means a bit or research as to how to do it.

Or ................... you can adapt a set of these to your A-10. It's from the new Mig29 and has a "second stage" gear door circuit (opens and closes the door before and after gear movement). You could plug only your nose gear and nose gear door into this board and "Y" your retract lead so both the stock board and this board get the signal. Which is more important - time spent to research how to do it with your TX or 22 bucks (+shipping)?

https://www.motionrc.com/products/freewing-multi-function-control-box-e-mcb-e

[Hiddenhanger63]

Cheers that may be a easy option, I fly with a Horus and open TX so I know it can be done it just means a bit or research as to how to do it.

[bbolz]

Yeah i inquired to jetguy how he got his to close with the gear down. You unplug the nose gear and door from the controler and hook them up directly to your receiver. You then use the sequencing function in a 9dx or better tx. I couldnt get it sequenced right and gave up, but that will work. Just go to youtube on the spektrum sequncer and they explain how to set this up.

[Hiddenhanger63]

Ohh ok I see now thanks, Although scale I would have preferred it to go up as it looks like it could easily catch longish grass if the standard or upgrade strut is fully compressed. Should be ok though. I have a trailing link strut from HK that is identical I believe to the upgrade one but the wheel hits the rear door when compressed is there a work around to the way the door is fastened or do people cut the door to clear the tyre?

[crxmanpat]

Yeah, those are old pictures and initially the gear door did go up after gear deployment. But then we pointed out to MRC that this was not scale so they changed the programming in the board to have the door remain open.

[Hiddenhanger63]

Same here?

[Hiddenhanger63]

oops

[Hiddenhanger63]

I guess this picture from motion there must be something non standard about it then?

[Hiddenhanger63]