Official Freewing 80mm A-4E/F Skyhawk Thread

[Topshot19]

This may have been covered before, I don't know. I just flew my Freewing A-4 again and it has an annoying wing rocking side to side in normal straight and level flight. Wing is clean, no ordnance or drop tanks. I've never used a gyro in any of my foamies before, but I wonder if the gyro might help in this case stabilize the flight a little better. Also, When I put the flaps out for landing, I get a big balloon with nose pitch up in the flight path. I wonder if I need some down elevator/flap mix? That is contrary to what the manual says, that you need nose up trim with flaps. Any help here? Thanks!

Mine was just how you explained. I moved my cg to 180 and added some weight to the nose and it no longer does both the things you explained. Think it might just be tail heavy

[davegee]

This may have been covered before, I don't know. I just flew my Freewing A-4 again and it has an annoying wing rocking side to side in normal straight and level flight. Wing is clean, no ordnance or drop tanks. I've never used a gyro in any of my foamies before, but I wonder if the gyro might help in this case stabilize the flight a little better. Also, When I put the flaps out for landing, I get a big balloon with nose pitch up in the flight path. I wonder if I need some down elevator/flap mix? That is contrary to what the manual says, that you need nose up trim with flaps. Any help here? Thanks!

[EA-6B Geek]

I have it balanced at 195mm. It seems to fly better than my other A-4. I guess that could be because the 3 inch stretch gives all of the mass a longer moment, or maybe it's just that it's so much easier to see.
We have the E-Jets Fly In here in September, just south of Columbus, Ohio. I'm hoping to make that event with both A-4s, and hopefully a new F-4!

[seaviper]

Great weather here in Ohio today. Finally got the maiden in on my TA-4J! Amazing how well these FW jets fly. Balanced per the instructions, required a couple clicks of down trim, nothing more. Its going to be a fun flying season.
Hey Seaviper! We need to put these two training command jets in the same place sometime!

congrats on the maiden! The scooter is just a fun jet to fly.

One of my goals for 2018 is to go to an rc fly- in somewhere.

[Ron1950]

working the tower and radar at Jackson airport I worked many ta4 and t45 fun to watch and work.

[RCjetdude]

I nearly lost mine at 195mm. Too tail heavy. Mine is at 180mm.

[Ron1950]

haven't finished mine yet either id be very interested in the cg and where you measure it from,,,

[RCjetdude]

Great weather here in Ohio today. Finally got the maiden in on my TA-4J! Amazing how well these FW jets fly. Balanced per the instructions, required a couple clicks of down trim, nothing more. Its going to be a fun flying season.
Hey Seaviper! We need to put these two training command jets in the same place sometime!

Beautiful! So are you at 195mm for your CG?

[EA-6B Geek]

Great weather here in Ohio today. Finally got the maiden in on my TA-4J! Amazing how well these FW jets fly. Balanced per the instructions, required a couple clicks of down trim, nothing more. Its going to be a fun flying season.
Hey Seaviper! We need to put these two training command jets in the same place sometime!

[seaviper]

Thank you Topshot. Good luck with it. It looks great!

Patrick do a good job on vt7 and ill let you paint my hawk same color lol

Well today I received my decals from Callie. They look really nice. I went and took off all the old vinyl stickers. She's gonna get a new nose gear trunnion as the current one has a lot of slop.
Also the decals are for a VT-7 TA4J assigned to the USS Lexington. So Lady Lex it will be. VT-7 of course.

I plan to have her painted sometime in March. We'll see. Ron I'll bring her over to Jackson for you guys to inspect.

Been fighting the flu I think. Can't wait for the rainy season to be over.

[Topshot19]

Nice job on the detailing guys. How does that nose gear work under operational conditions? video please...

Since I got the 104 back in the air, The little Skyhawk is going down for a re-paint into TW-1, VT-7 colors in preparation for the 100th mission. She has picked up a few dings along the way.
Graphics have been ordered from Callie.

https://youtu.be/_wX37oSRbRc

There ya go!

[Ron1950]

Patrick do a good job on vt7 and ill let you paint my hawk same color lol

[seaviper]

Nice job on the detailing guys. How does that nose gear work under operational conditions? video please...

Since I got the 104 back in the air, The little Skyhawk is going down for a re-paint into TW-1, VT-7 colors in preparation for the 100th mission. She has picked up a few dings along the way.
Graphics have been ordered from Callie.

[Topshot19]

I used the f14 gear support. You have to cut it down and File some metal down so the plastic part would fit on the Shaft.

[TiredIronGRB]

Really, really slick :Drooling:

You should see them in person, Steve does the best detail work I've ever seen...period!

[purduephigam]

Really, really slick :Drooling:

[RCjetdude]

The VMA-121 Green Knights A-4 is officially done. Got a few pictures of it with my Blue Angels #6 up at my good friend George Bakers place. He had a Hangar Day and it was good to get together again.

Now I have one for work and one for play.....

[Ron1950]

know what ya mean with the air to mud statement...we have a moat around our runway over here in Jackson lol

[seaviper]

Well they came off rather violently! I will probably find some properly weighted scale bombs for future air-to-mud operations.

The 3d printing thing may be in the future as well. Still kicking that one around.

[Ron1950]

man I love the drop tanks great job...