Official Freewing 70mm BAe Hawk T1 Thread

[Hardway]

Very cool! Welcome!!! :Cool::Cool:

[RCjetdude]

Looks very good Aaron. Well done and welcome to HobbySquawk!

[Aaron372]

As always it was an absolute honor to buy from motion rc. I purchased the grey version of the BAE Hawk and painted it in the navy centennial color scheme. Took about 40 hours or so worth of work but the pay off is amazing.

[Ron1950]

this jet is a real crowd pleaser...flew 2 times today had other pilots remark about how fast it is and looks so good...and this was the the one with the 4s set up...my 6s t1 to t45 hasent gotten into the rotation yet lol finally finished all except duel nose wheel,,,parts ordered lol

[JamesonC]

Jameson,

You didn't use a plug adapter between your battery and the ESC did you?

I use all deans connectors on my batteries and as you know, the Hawk uses an EC5 connector.

I got an adapter for my deans equipped batteries and I had the same thing happen to me (on the ground luckily), an intermittent connection between my battery and the ESC.

Turns out it was the adapter.

I decided to buy new batteries for the Hawk with EC5 connectors.

No. All my 6s lipos are EC5. I only use deans on 4s and down.

I tried two lipos at the house once I got back there and nothing would send power to the ESC. Only way I got it to power was from a Life Rx pack.

[vdanger]

I went to Maiden my Hawk the weekend before last and right after takeoff (5-10ft off the ground) I lost everything all at once, no motor, no ailerons, nothing. I watched my Hawk smack back down into the dirt. When I walked to it and flipped it over, I immediately looked at the Rx and it had no lights on whatsoever and I had no response from anything on my transmitter. I disconnected the battery and plugged it back up, still nothing and no lights. I ended up just putting it back in the truck and went on with my flying day. When I got it home, I decided to do some diagnosing of what happened. Plugged in a lipo and still, nothing from the rx, as if it was getting no power at all from the ESC. I disconnected the throttle channel and plugged in a life rx battery and the rx powered up and I had control from all the surfaces. Took the rx battery out and plugged the esc throttle channel back in and once again, no lights coming on from the rx. Tried the life battery again, rx powered right up. So at this point, I concluded the ESC (UBEC) failed. I contacted MRC and explained what happened and I filled out their questionnaire. They asked for me to send the ESC in, so I pulled it from the plane and sent it into them. Got a response from them that the ESC tested fine and they were sending it back and there would be no help on the crashed plane. I, unfortunately, did not mark the ESC in any way so I'll have no idea if I get the same ESC back or not. I continued to share my frustration with MRC about my issue and they eventually offered a gift card to help with the cost of replacement parts. Either way, I am left with a crashed plane and don't really know if I even want to spend the money to repair it. I am so frustrated with it, I'm close to yanking the electronics from it and tossing it and writing it off as a loss and a lesson learned. In the end, I would still have a model with repaired foam, touched up paint, and an ESC I cannot trust and will be at least another $50 deep into a repaired plane that will not look anywhere near as good as it used to. Still very frustrated with the situation and bummed this happened to me on such a nice model. Brand new plane with the $45 upgraded retracts smacking the dirt right in front of me while all I can do is watch and cringe.

Jameson,

You didn't use a plug adapter between your battery and the ESC did you?

I use all deans connectors on my batteries and as you know, the Hawk uses an EC5 connector.

I got an adapter for my deans equipped batteries and I had the same thing happen to me (on the ground luckily), an intermittent connection between my battery and the ESC.

Turns out it was the adapter.

I decided to buy new batteries for the Hawk with EC5 connectors.

[JamesonC]

I went to Maiden my Hawk the weekend before last and right after takeoff (5-10ft off the ground) I lost everything all at once, no motor, no ailerons, nothing. I watched my Hawk smack back down into the dirt. When I walked to it and flipped it over, I immediately looked at the Rx and it had no lights on whatsoever and I had no response from anything on my transmitter. I disconnected the battery and plugged it back up, still nothing and no lights. I ended up just putting it back in the truck and went on with my flying day. When I got it home, I decided to do some diagnosing of what happened. Plugged in a lipo and still, nothing from the rx, as if it was getting no power at all from the ESC. I disconnected the throttle channel and plugged in a life rx battery and the rx powered up and I had control from all the surfaces. Took the rx battery out and plugged the esc throttle channel back in and once again, no lights coming on from the rx. Tried the life battery again, rx powered right up. So at this point, I concluded the ESC (UBEC) failed. I contacted MRC and explained what happened and I filled out their questionnaire. They asked for me to send the ESC in, so I pulled it from the plane and sent it into them. Got a response from them that the ESC tested fine and they were sending it back and there would be no help on the crashed plane. I, unfortunately, did not mark the ESC in any way so I'll have no idea if I get the same ESC back or not. I continued to share my frustration with MRC about my issue and they eventually offered a gift card to help with the cost of replacement parts. Either way, I am left with a crashed plane and don't really know if I even want to spend the money to repair it. I am so frustrated with it, I'm close to yanking the electronics from it and tossing it and writing it off as a loss and a lesson learned. In the end, I would still have a model with repaired foam, touched up paint, and an ESC I cannot trust and will be at least another $50 deep into a repaired plane that will not look anywhere near as good as it used to. Still very frustrated with the situation and bummed this happened to me on such a nice model. Brand new plane with the $45 upgraded retracts smacking the dirt right in front of me while all I can do is watch and cringe.

[dahawk]

hawk is that a 4 or 6s fan? know what u mean about your go to plane love mine also

Ron,

6S. Running with a 6S 50C 5000mah Admiral. Taking on all Avanti pilots ! LOL

[Sky Wolf]

Come on over and fly mine. Love it. In fact, it’s now my go-to plane. I have a 2200kv 14b edfhobbies combo in mine. Mine even smokes the Avanti’s. Lol Get a lot of ooh’s and aah’s from the peanut gallery

Yep, gotta come check it out. Let me know when you're headed to the field again. When's the B-24 maiden? We need another B-24 maiden video. Not enough of them out there. Sorry, wrong topic on this thread.

Now back to our regular programming!

[Ron1950]

hawk is that a 4 or 6s fan? know what u mean about your go to plane love mine also

[dahawk]

I don’t my own this one, but I follow this thread from time to time. Man, I didn't know the Hawk could move like that. It’s screamin’!

Come on over and fly mine. Love it. In fact, it’s now my go-to plane. I have a 2200kv 14b edfhobbies combo in mine. Mine even smokes the Avanti’s. Lol Get a lot of ooh’s and aah’s from the peanut gallery

[Ron1950]

I am running a fms 70mm fan and the motor that comes with it for about 35 dollars maybe 40 or so.. 4s 5000 battery

check out this vid and u can see it flies great on 4s..either set up u use this plane is a winner and flys great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9LG...ature=youtu.be

[Regatoni5]

How does it fly on 4s? What power plant+ setup are you running?

They come set up for 6s. But i got the arf pluss and installed the fms 4s setup. Very pleased with it.

[Ron1950]

finished my T1 to T45 conversion today ...tail hook is on and decided to not go with duel nose gear setup yet thought id get the landing gear up grade but out of stock

[vdanger]

To all,

Usually when I write on this forum, I am writing about some problem I had with trying to operate my Hawk off of grass.

Just so you don't think all is gloom and doom, I would just like to report that I flew my Hawk several times today and landed on grass and everything worked out perfectly!

The nose wheel mechanical stop mod and the dual nose wheel mod really worked well, I highly recommend them.

Especially the mechanical stop mod, the nose wheel unit is now solid!

Thanks,
Vdanger

[Ron1950]

They come set up for 6s. But i got the arf pluss and installed the fms 4s setup. Very pleased with it. don't know why this repeted sorry

[Ron1950]

disreguard the bed with all my laundry on it...my painting skills lack a lot...this still needs clear on the wing it will be a stand off model (about 5 ft lol) so u don't see all the bad paint

[Ron1950]

They come set up for 6s. But i got the arf pluss and installed the fms 4s setup. Very pleased with it.

[Sky Wolf]

I don’t my own this one, but I follow this thread from time to time. Man, I didn't know the Hawk could move like that. It’s screamin’!

[Ron1950]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9LG...ature=youtu.be

Thursday flying with a nice crosswind nothing great just having fun with my 4s setup freewing T1