Official Freewing 80mm EDF F-86 Sabre Thread

[Mr. “B”]

I’ve just started back into the hobby after a long layoff. After Captain Jolley rotated back to the States this F-86 became my Father's. He renamed it the Patricia II. I’m going to change a few of the decals to make it the Patricia II !

[chrizon]

Evan D

yes, great idea thanks... I've just done that, I hope there's a response just soured my experience with the model and the brand given ho little use Ive gotten out of it and now might not be able to keep it going

[Evan D]

Can I suggest placing a want ad there?

Evan D

there are about 3 or 4 on there in great shape but all the Ines Ive seen are local pickup only sadly

[chrizon]

Evan D

there are about 3 or 4 on there in great shape but all the Ines Ive seen are local pickup only sadly

[Evan D]

One in great shape for sale on RCG.

Evan D

YEah to say I was surprised would be an understatement. I think it's pretty poor customer service. I've seen a good few models over the years discontinued as PNP/ARF etc, but the parts remained available for a reasonable amount of time thereafter. But this seems to have just pulled the rug out from under this model with no warning. so given the limited usage over gotten this looks like it'll be stripped of parts and binned sadly

[chrizon]

xviper

Thank you for this... I'll hit them up and see if I can find a few last parts to see if I can keep this bird in the air just long enough that it doesn't feel like a mistake to have bought in the first place!

[chrizon]

Evan D

YEah to say I was surprised would be an understatement. I think it's pretty poor customer service. I've seen a good few models over the years discontinued as PNP/ARF etc, but the parts remained available for a reasonable amount of time thereafter. But this seems to have just pulled the rug out from under this model with no warning. so given the limited usage over gotten this looks like it'll be stripped of parts and binned sadly

[Evan D]

Also put a want ad on RCG. I was really surprised Freewing discontinued this plane.

[xviper]

Try RCCastle, AliExpress, Banggood. They have been known to sell parts for discontinued models.

https://www.rc-castle.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=470_471_655&product_id=10433

[chrizon]

Hi all,

I got my freewing 80mm sabre late last year and kept it for this summer. On only my second time out with it i had a
bird strike on take off that caused the model to slam into a barb wire fence on full power. Needless to say the main wings and fuselage are shredded as a result. I’ve just seen on the motion rc website that the 80mm is discontinued. So they don’t have any replacement parts. (Also checked
with support).
it’s painful that after only 2 trips to my airfield and a handful of flights it looks like that’s the end of the road with this plane.

can anyone help at all with where I may be able to pick up wings, fuselage and decals from somewhere not yet out of stock?

I’d hate to have to salvage a few parts for spares after such a short time and have to bin the rest!

thank you for any help you might be able to give pointing me in the right direction!

Chris

[Elbee]

https://www.hobbysquawk.com/forum/rc...-sabre-jet-pnp

Hey All,

I started an FMS F-86 Non-Official Thread, so click the link and subscribe.

Now I sound like a ewe-toober

Best, LB

[davegee]

I was able to figure out one way to get the nose gear door to close once the gear is extended in the down and locked position, as the real ones did. I had an extra Doors/gear cable from my E Flite P-51D and plugged it into the gear and door for this plane. Works perfectly!

I think I'll take another stab at Chris Wolfe's plan to use braided fishing wire on his main gear doors that then attach to the main gear struts. I had some success, but not enough to satisfy me so I removed them temporarily. If this doesn't work this time, I might try to add some dedicated servos to do the job for the gear.

I ordered a 1/10 scale USAF pilot bust from Chris Wolfe that should be arriving in the mail tomorrow. That will be my weekend project extracting the "Chinese" pilot and installing him in his place (after I paint him, of course!)


Cheers

Davegee

Hi All: I was able to order the 1/10 scale "Sabre Jock" bust from Chris Wolfe and it arrived yesterday in the mail. I had already cut a hole out of the bottom of the cockpit to extract the stock pilot and smoothed up the hole so it would be ready to accept the Chirs Wolfe pilot when I got it painted. My wife did her part and painted the pilot for me.

Was fairly straight forward getting the pilot into the cockpit. I pretty much copied the idea from CW and how he did his: 1) use a soldering iron to cut out the hole and extract the OEM pilot, 2) glued the CW pilot onto a small piece of basswood painted gray to match the existing floor in the cockpit, 3) glued the pilot and basswood floor onto the cockpit from underneath using RC Canopy glue (in case I have remove it someday). I think it looks much better than the OEM pilot.

We're having some stormy weather the next couple of dasy, so it might be later in the week until I can fly the new updated model. I'm still working on Chris' method of using braided string to pull the main gear doors open and closed when tied onto the struts. I have tried three times, and I still can't get it to work right. I might give it another go, or I'm also looking at some servos, or a servo to get this door sequencing coorect.

I'll attach a couple of pics I just took in the shop.

Cheers

Davegee

[davegee]

Thanks, F106. I'll check iit out. Probably will have more questions for you! Keep on your great redo of the F-86!

I did get my third flight on the FMS F-86 today. The best of the three I have done so far, and the first time I tried a landing using the speedbrakes extended. Worked great on a pretty light wind day. I have my speedbrake hooked up to the right slider switch on my Spektrum DX18. A bit of work for my finger to get over there to move it while on final approach, but I'll get better with it with more practice. I did have to do two go arounds as I was a bit higher on final approach with the runway than I like, but that was good practice doing that and retracting/deploying the speed brakes in the mix. Great airplane so far by FMS!

Still working on upgrades to this model, pretty much stock at this point. But still fun!

Cheers

Davegee

I was able to figure out one way to get the nose gear door to close once the gear is extended in the down and locked position, as the real ones did. I had an extra Doors/gear cable from my E Flite P-51D and plugged it into the gear and door for this plane. Works perfectly!

I think I'll take another stab at Chris Wolfe's plan to use braided fishing wire on his main gear doors that then attach to the main gear struts. I had some success, but not enough to satisfy me so I removed them temporarily. If this doesn't work this time, I might try to add some dedicated servos to do the job for the gear.

I ordered a 1/10 scale USAF pilot bust from Chris Wolfe that should be arriving in the mail tomorrow. That will be my weekend project extracting the "Chinese" pilot and installing him in his place (after I paint him, of course!)


Cheers

Davegee

[davegee]

Thanks, F106. I'll check iit out. Probably will have more questions for you! Keep on your great redo of the F-86!

I did get my third flight on the FMS F-86 today. The best of the three I have done so far, and the first time I tried a landing using the speedbrakes extended. Worked great on a pretty light wind day. I have my speedbrake hooked up to the right slider switch on my Spektrum DX18. A bit of work for my finger to get over there to move it while on final approach, but I'll get better with it with more practice. I did have to do two go arounds as I was a bit higher on final approach with the runway than I like, but that was good practice doing that and retracting/deploying the speed brakes in the mix. Great airplane so far by FMS!

Still working on upgrades to this model, pretty much stock at this point. But still fun!

Cheers

Davegee

I was able to figure out one way to get the nose gear door to close once the gear is extended in the down and locked position, as the real ones did. I had an extra Doors/gear cable from my E Flite P-51D and plugged it into the gear and door for this plane. Works perfectly!

I think I'll take another stab at Chris Wolfe's plan to use braided fishing wire on his main gear doors that then attach to the main gear struts. I had some success, but not enough to satisfy me so I removed them termporarily. If this doesn't work this time, I might try to add some dedicated servos to do the job for the gear.

I ordered a 1/10 scale USAF pilot bust from Chris Wolfe that should be arriving in the mail tomorrow. That will be my weekend project extracting the "Chinese" pilot and installing him in his place (after I paint him, of course!)


Cheers

Davegee

[davegee]

Thanks Dave! I hooked the nose gear up to an unused channel and used the sequencer function to set when it opened and closed. I did this on my IX20. Will need to check later what the exact setting were. Looks like it is available on your DX18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQphSWqKRtU

Thanks, F106. I'll check iit out. Probably will have more questions for you! Keep on your great redo of the F-86!

I did get my third flight on the FMS F-86 today. The best of the three I have done so far, and the first time I tried a landing using the speedbrakes extended. Worked great on a pretty light wind day. I have my speedbrake hooked up to the right slider switch on my Spektrum DX18. A bit of work for my finger to get over there to move it while on final approach, but I'll get better with it with more practice. I did have to do two go arounds as I was a bit higher on final approach with the runway than I like, but that was good practice doing that and retracting/deploying the speed brakes in the mix. Great airplane so far by FMS!

Still working on upgrades to this model, pretty much stock at this point. But still fun!

Cheers

Davegee

[F106DeltaDart]

F-106

Very nice indeed.
Two Brothers RC Jon had mentioned the speed brake servo(s) was/were a bit light on power, did you change those?

Best, Steve

I have not had any issues so far, so have left them stock. The biggest item of note for the speed brakes is to be careful when using then for the first time. Mine had one of the vinyl decals overlapping the door-to-fuselage seam. If you didn't catch this quick, its an easy way to burn up the servos..

[F106DeltaDart]

Thanks Dave! I hooked the nose gear up to an unused channel and used the sequencer function to set when it opened and closed. I did this on my IX20. Will need to check later what the exact setting were. Looks like it is available on your DX18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQphSWqKRtU

[Elbee]

Very nice Dave! I've been working on the FMS F-86 as well. I ran a separate wire for the nose gear door and sequenced it in my transmitter software.

Mine is in the middle of a major refinish right now.. Panel lines have been filled and wing covered in aluminum tape panel by panel. Before moving to the fuselage, I wanted to correct the speed brake geometry (they should be angled down more when deployed). Designed a 3D printed hinge block and a few replacement hinge section to glue to the existing parts. Also finished painting up a new pilot figure. It is resin 3D printed from Bastlero and scaled to fit.

F-106

Very nice indeed.

Jon @ Two Bros RC had also mentioned the speed brake servo(s) was/were a bit light on power, did you change those?

Best, Steve

[davegee]

Very nice Dave! I've been working on the FMS F-86 as well. I ran a separate wire for the nose gear door and sequenced it in my transmitter software.

Mine is in the middle of a major refinish right now.. Panel lines have been filled and wing covered in aluminum tape panel by panel. Before moving to the fuselage, I wanted to correct the speed brake geometry (they should be angled down more when deployed). Designed a 3D printed hinge block and a few replacement hinge section to glue to the existing parts. Also finished painting up a new pilot figure. It is resin 3D printed from Bastlero and scaled to fit.

Wow! Very impressive, F106Deltadart!

I've sorta run out of gas for the time being doing detailed redo's on rc airplanes, but when the right one comes along, I'll probably jump in with both feet!

I have a Spectrum DX 18 transmitter that has been very reliable for many years. Could you give me any more info if my present transmitter could be used to make the front gear door fully cyclable like the real thing when the gear is down? I'd be very interested in being able to get that nose gear door to cycle properly instead of just hanging down with the nose gear extended. I wish FMS would have taken care of this detail with the gear doors instead of leaving it for the customers to figure out how to do.

Love the proper angle of the speed brakes, too! Well done!

Cheers

Davegee

[F106DeltaDart]

Very nice Dave! I've been working on the FMS F-86 as well. I ran a separate wire for the nose gear door and sequenced it in my transmitter software.

Mine is in the middle of a major refinish right now.. Panel lines have been filled and wing covered in aluminum tape panel by panel. Before moving to the fuselage, I wanted to correct the speed brake geometry (they should be angled down more when deployed). Designed a 3D printed hinge block and a few replacement hinge section to glue to the existing parts. Also finished painting up a new pilot figure. It is resin 3D printed from Bastlero and scaled to fit.