Avios/Hobby King 1600mm C-130 Hercules

[rifleman_btx]

This is the candidate for my fpv airsoft firing cannon I've come up with. :)

[crxmanpat]

Some brief flying video. Starts at 7:20.

[rifleman_btx]

Looks to handle grass quite well, even on a pretty rough looking landing

[fieldofdreamsflyer]

Real C-130 doing a loop

[rifleman_btx]

And the Airborne Rangers become angry and rush the cockpit in a hail of WTF's. Haha really though that was freaking sweet!:Cool:

[xviper]

That's the way I'm planning to fly mine when I get it, assuming it'll have enough power to do it. The "scale" guys will have a freak out.

[rifleman_btx]

If the full scale plane can do it, then its scale. No mater how much moaning they do:)

[Woodcock]

That's the way I'm planning to fly mine when I get it, assuming it'll have enough power to do it. The "scale" guys will have a freak out.

Hmm, I'm a scale guy sort of. I rarely freak out about anything. Lol.

Woody

PS, I'd love to see one of the accomplished 3D pilots hover a Freewing phantom jet. Seriously! I lay awake at nights thinking about it.

Now don't go crashing your $600 dollar plane, I'm just kidding around.

Building a wall mount in the garage to hold my planes, just waiting for the glue to dry on the first rack. Killing some time.

[xviper]

Hmm, I'm a scale guy sort of. I rarely freak out about anything. Lol.

Woody

PS, I'd love to see one of the accomplished 3D pilots hover a Freewing phantom jet. Seriously! I lay awake at nights thinking about it.

I know you're kidding but if you were going to hover a jet, the Freewing Phantom is not the one to do it. I doubt it has more thrust than it's weight. You need something that has more than 1:1 thrust/weight ratio and thrust vectoring in order to control the hover since it has no prop wash going over the control surfaces. The SebArt Mig 29 (made by Freewing) is one such jet. Mine will hand launch vertically and it can hover through the whole battery. I'm just not good enough to do it that long.
I also doubt that this HobbyKing Herc will have sufficient power to weight ratio to do a sustained hover. Another similar plane would be the B-24 Liberator. It's a 4 prop plane that runs on 4 cells. I've tried and it just can't hold itself up in a vertical hover, at least not at my altitude. It'll easily do a loop from a straight, level start as long as the loop isn't too big. The Herc will likely be even less powerful, so it won't be able to do it either. HobbyKing is not known for over-powering their "scale" planes, especially multi-engined ones (until they do a "version 2").

[stu]

I Just hope for ONCE they keep A Good stock of spares and dont discontinue after a few months like they always do. I have a couple of HK models I cant find parts for anywhere. Perhaps MotionRC should take over Avios because there spares back up is second to none. This would be definately be another model for me. But ive looked at HK and they hardly have any models for sale lately and Nitroplanes when you look every plane is out of stock. If they have no stock of planes how are they still in business ?

[Woodcock]

I Just hope for ONCE they keep A Good stock of spares and dont discontinue after a few months like they always do. I have a couple of HK models I cant find parts for anywhere. Perhaps MotionRC should take over Avios because there spares back up is second to none. This would be definately be another model for me. But ive looked at HK and they hardly have any models for sale lately and Nitroplanes when you look every plane is out of stock. If they have no stock of planes how are they still in business ?

Ya know, I wonder this myself often

Woody

[tab28682]

I am in on the Avios C-130. Willing to take the early adopter risk. I do some work for the C-130 program frm time to time and it is a must have for me.

[quitcherbitchen]

I live right near Nitro Planes. They are out of the planes business. They only do drones now.

[lmramos44]

Hmm reveal should be any day now...,

[crxmanpat]

I agree. Looks like some may be out for reviewers already.

The box pic was a screenshot from the recent RC Afterhours podcast.

[xviper]

Somehow, that RC Afterhours thing doesn't look like a box. It seems 2 dimensional, like it's just the lid that was stripped of the sides.

[crxmanpat]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I was watching the podcast. And it's hard to tell for sure, but that looks like the Avios logo on top.

[Gilatrout]

Some brief flying video. Starts at 7:20.

Looks great, though he flew it and landed it pretty fast. Might be a tad heavy on the wingloading? Even so, Im pretty sure I'll get one

[JamesonC]

Can we change the title of this thread to 1600mm since it was confirmed a while back?

https://hobbyking.com/en_us/news/sneak-peak-avios-c-130-1600mm

[xviper]

Looks great, though he flew it and landed it pretty fast. Might be a tad heavy on the wingloading? Even so, Im pretty sure I'll get one

That high speed worries me a bit. I'll wait for real world owners to report in before I buy. It also depends on the final selling price.