Official Freewing 70mm BAe Hawk T1 Thread

[vdanger]

To all,

I thought you might like to see pictures of my Freewing Hawk that I just finished. I'm not really into the one color red British paint scheme because I am new to EDF's and I wanted a scheme to help me with orientation. I ordered a grey version and painted it like a T-45C of training wing two. This is the special Navy 100 year Centennial paint scheme.

[dahawk]

No question the Avanti S is a big hit. My buddy flies one. Runs circles around the 90mm Stinger. But don’t underestimate the new 70mm Hawk. I keep up with the Avanti without any problem. She’s fast and the red arrows livery is far more attractive to me than that God awful yellow Lol. Fly’s great off grass as does the Avanti.

I had a 2200kv XRP 14b waiting in the wings so bought the Arf+ @ $169.00. No need to upgrade the chicken legs yet but can always do that later. Don’t see them when they are retracted.

[HANGER FIFTYONE]

Went flying this weekend and when I got to the field what did I see but another Avanti S sitting on the tarmac ( grass ),:Silly: that makes 3. So Bill comes over to me and says "did you see my new plane"? "yep I saw it; looks good ; did you fly it yet"? "nah, waiting on a battery; After seeing yours fly and that beefy undercarriage I ordered it right then, my first jet ever". "I've been wanting to get a jet but I just didn't like the undercarriage on them so I just couldn't do it but after seeing yours; that sold me". So guy again I think this is a big deal on sales of these jets. We are on shipment number 5 on the Avanti S; the first 4 were sold out before they hit the ground. We are on the first shipment of the red hawk and it's not sold out yet. Numbers don't lie. sales are just not there on this jet and it's beautiful, I LOVE IT. It can't be the looks of the jet because it looks awesome so what do you all think it is?:Confused: I was a little wrong about the undercarriage, I think I got the FMS and the Freewing mixed up. After reading all your comment ( and thank you ) I went and looked again and I do like the upgrade undercarriage but again I have to spend $229.00 for the plane and then I have to spend another $43.00 to upgrade the landing gear just to get what should have already been in it, then my labor to install it and it's still has to small of wheels and it's not the Avanti S . At $272.00 it just to close in price; I'd buy the Avanti S. AGAIN ; this is not me bitching but an observation. I love Motion RC, Ryan, Mike and Alpha so I'm just giving some feedback (because I know they are reading this) so they can do better on the next one. Just like the Freewing 70MM F-16 V1 with thrust vectoring and no retracts ( who wants to fly a F-16 with the wheels hanging out especially doing 3D maneuvers ) to V2 no thrust vectoring but now it has retracts. Just my opinion but If this jet came with the Avanti S undercarriage at this price it would have already sold out. I think ; anyway ; just my $.02 worth. Oh, and when I say not so good grass I mean cow pasture, cow patties, mole hills and no grass sandy spots that the little wheels sink into.:Sick2:

Kenny

[JLambCWU]

I am turning mine into a desert hawk and arming it. I got the sidewinder rails from the 70 mm F 16, they are slightly too big at 9”s, am looking for some AIM-9 Sidewinders to go on it and external tanks. My buddy said to look at the freeway 90 mm F 15 tanks and sidewinders. Anybody else have suggestions?
ive already had Callie graphics start on the decals.

[JLambCWU]

It is noticeably faster than the Avanti when flying on my china hobby line 70°C packs. I love how much space it has inside of it. My 6000mah pack even fits inside it and I will get 4:30 run time out of the 6000mah pack.

FAR happier with these packs than the Admirals I️ got through MotionRC.

http://www.chinahobbyline.us/product/content/201607/540.html

[dahawk]

I can’t comment on the speed difference either FMS Avanti but I’m getting about 4 min on the Hawk. I do keep up speedwize with the FW 80mm Avanti S.

[Pascandrea]

Hi, for the people who has both plane (Freewing AvantiS and Hawk) how many percent the hawk goes faster than the AvantiS and how many minutes do you run the Hawk, I do three with my AvantiS ? Thanks

[dfordham]

I hope it's not the blue box causing failures again like on the mig...

No, this is definitely the servo. Once I removed it, I could wiggle the wire at the servo and it would work occasionally.

Don

[ryramZ]

I finally maidened mine. Oh how I love it. Flew my maiden with suspension struts. Mike had his on as well. These things look great together. Like Steve reports, the speed is impressive.

[the snake]

I hope it's not the blue box causing failures again like on the mig...

[dfordham]

Started assembling mine late last night and found a bad aileron servo. Disappointedly filled out a ticket with MRC this morning and received notice that a new servo shipped this afternoon. Great customer service.

Don

[Apriliamgt]

Do you ever have to dodge the sheep? LOL Your grass does not look all that short but it took off with little effort.

Well they share the field every now and then , they normally stay away hehe.

the grass was cut about a week ago! I did use most the patch to take off ! So it does need doing again, but yeah no issues on a grass runway

[RCjetdude]

Some footage of today’s fligt

https://youtu.be/BysXNMz4hMM

Do you ever have to dodge the sheep? LOL Your grass does not look all that short but it took off with little effort.

[Apriliamgt]

Some footage of today’s fligt

https://youtu.be/BysXNMz4hMM

[Hardway]

Thanks for the search.... I just wanted an up-close shot and all the web has is of the full aircraft... It can't be easy if it is not something "naughty" or political. Tired of both...

[fhhuber]

Aux. Power Unit
Was trying to find a picture of it, but no luck so far....

https://www.google.com/search?q=aux+power+unit+for+BAe+Hawk&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu4_zS9KDXAhUBx2MKHVIhAjUQsAQILg&biw=1366&bih=635

[Ron1950]

u can see it in these pics if u blow them up some...btw thanks hardway

just painted mine silver just for grins probably needed to be black

[Hardway]

Aux. Power Unit
Was trying to find a picture of it, but no luck so far....

[RCjetdude]

Thank you sir...

[Hardway]

It is the exhaust port for the APU on the full scale jet!! :-)