Next big jet from Freewing

[Airguardian]

Well, there's the solution!

[Skosh25]

Did LX Su-47 gator?
It was all black.

It was EPS, which doesn’t gator like EPO.

[Airguardian]

Did LX Su-47 gator?
It was all black.

[Skosh25]

I’ll be really impressed if they can find a way to manufacture a black EPO jet that doesn’t gator. I’d only buy something like an SR-71 if it didn’t look like an 🐊 after 30 seconds in the sun. Poly helps doesn’t stop it entirely. Maybe EPS would be an option idk.

[Hugh Wiedman]

Hugh Wiedman, I’m 100% with you on the B1-B or the B-52. I would stop paying my student loans to buy one of those if I had to. If it was a B-52, my life would be complete. That’s one plane I don’t expect to ever get to own a model of. If life was only fair, we’d have a B-52 with (8) 50mm EDF’s.

I'll fly with you and a B1-B or B-52 anytime, sign me up!

[FoamOvercast17]

Hugh Wiedman, I’m 100% with you on the B1-B or the B-52. I would stop paying my student loans to buy one of those if I had to. If it was a B-52, my life would be complete. That’s one plane I don’t expect to ever get to own a model of. If life was only fair, we’d have a B-52 with (8) 50mm EDF’s.

[FoamOvercast17]

Alpha dropped a 'Titanium nugget' in today's MRC live show.

Many modern fighter aircraft use titanium, but the SR-71 would be the maximum exponent of that...

I agree. I think the Titanium Nugget and “opposite of a cub” statements point to an SR-71 and what would get people in this hobby talking more than a large, well done SR-71. Everyone always says this or that can’t be done, and then a company does it. I’m sure a company like Motion can figure out black on foam. Especially if I can take a sweet 90mm EDF F-4 out of the box and being flying it in an hour. It’s a crazy world we live in.

[Topdogzrc]

Sir Alpha..something that you have not modelled yet and would make up for a great entry model as well as advanced...Alphajet! And it bears your name..what else can you ask for 😁...90mm please 😎

Dude I would love for the Alphajet to come back, the old Starmax one flew so well. Imagine what justice MRC could do with a 90mm or twin 80mm one.

[Petronio]

Sir Alpha..something that you have not modelled yet and would make up for a great entry model as well as advanced...Alphajet! And it bears your name..what else can you ask for 😁...90mm please 😎

[Enterprise206]

I’d like to see more Cold War Era jets mainly a single 90mm Mig-23 Flogger or single 90/twin 80mm F-101 Voodoo. Why these two jets? Because I feel their underrated and mostly forgotten, overshadowed by the more well known birds Phantoms Fishbeds etc.

[Hugh Wiedman]

I'm still thinking it's going to be a bomber and/or agree with Evan D a private business jet, like a Lear or Gulfstream. With FW's seemingly hugely popular AL37, something that no one else has, (put that in your pipe and smoke it E-Flite, HH and FMS), a complimentary Business Jet, maybe a twin 70 mm in like a 1/12 scale would most likely sell very well. Something we need to keep in mind, it's gotta be something that justifies the production costs and appeals to a lot of customers and doesn't come in black! People can customize it "till the cows come home".

If a bomber is also in the works, I would love to see a:

• 1/15 scale B-17 or B-29. No doubt this would be an "easy" production using a lot of tech from the B-24, but it's not an EDF and I wonder if it would only appeal to those already with a B-24 instead of generating a whole new audience (but I'd get one)
• B-1B Lancer, maybe 1/20th scale, 80" wingspan-86" length, twin 80 mm, which would be one Bad A.. Mamma Jamma with swept wings, but most likely too expensive and complicated (ala F-14) to generate enough sales. Doesn't have to be in black:

• Would love to see a B-2 or F-117, but agree no black and an SR-71 or even a F-70 Valkyrie, also too difficult, black, but both those do have titanium. Again, probably not enough customers and maybe a handful to fly.
• Then there's the B-52, maybe in a 1/25th scale, 88" wingspan, but would the outside engine pods then be fake, and is the wing length just a bit wide and ungainly to make it commercially viable? Imagine if they could do it, again they'd be the only ones and it would probably sell well.

Just think of potential liveries, but also think of scraping the wingtips regularly, so gotta have those little outside wheels. Holy Cow, how about an 8 engine EDF with 4 rotating retracts

[T-CAT]

Yeah, Fab Comp made a 90mm EDF composite SR-71 and it was 79” inches long and 43” inches in wingspan. So, a 80 or 90mm SR-71 would be large and in charge at these size ranges and likely expensive even in foam form. The downside to me would be the fact that it would be made of foam if Freewing were to release one. I despise what black paint looks like on EPO (unless Freewing decides to use a different foam type) after being subjected to the rigors of the sun, even for short periods of time. As much as I want a SR-71, F-117, and B-2, I don’t want it enough in foam unless the gatoring/popcorning issue in the sun with EPO can be resolved, or until an alternative suitable foam can be used.

[Airguardian]

Plus there's the issue of fitting the EDFs... It would either need to use small EDFs or be yuuuuge!
(Or compromise scale looks a bit)

[Evan D]

What are the odds of a SR-71? All black, not easy to fly, probably not easy to engineer... But if anyone could do it it would be FW.

Still thinking business jet...

[Airguardian]

SR-71 is as far removed from a Cub as I can imagine.

Alpha dropped a 'Titanium nugget' in today's MRC live show.

Many modern fighter aircraft use titanium, but the SR-71 would be the maximum exponent of that...

[heartlandaccents]

Kallend, good thought, but I was thinking about the Starship Enterprise!

But really hoping for the F9F Cougar.

[kallend]

SR-71 is as far removed from a Cub as I can imagine.

[Evan D]

I'll say a business jet...

I'm really not in the market for anything right now so I'm good with whatever. :)

[Bajora]

So as Alpha said it's the opposite of a Cub...

It'll probably really fast in flight and on landing, difficult to fly, but easier to takeoff and land and WON'T ground loop, and needs to be the opposite of 'it'll barely kill you in a crash'
So either that means it won't kill you and land you softly, or utterly anihilate you out of this realm of existance

Well they already released an F-104!

[Bajora]

kallend Very true. Approaching ten years in the EDF business, though, we can certainly see a pattern regarding what people want and what people buy. Unfortunately, the trend is hauntingly similar to the common notion that "If you want to make a hit, make a Cub [or Mustang]". I'd like to think we gave (and will continue to give) as diverse a portfolio of options for customers to choose from, but that pattern so far has proved undeniable. For more exotic birds, we're probably wiser to wait for that data to shift before sticking our necks out even further.

That being said, one of our next birds is the precise opposite of a Cub.

#ChallengeAccepted

Blackburn "Buc"caneer? (Cub reversed = your "precise opposite of Cub"?


EDIT: Reading back over this thread, I see Tommy already threw the "Buc" out in Post 278