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FlightLine Fw 190 D-9 Dora 850mm (33") Wingspan - Official Thread
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Maiden Report...
Maidened my Dora yesterday, late afternoon, before my club meeting at our field. I've installed a stabilized 7-channel Lemon. Each aileron has its own channel, so that I can individually set subtrims, and I had channels to spare. Running separate-channel ailerons, though, the Lemon stabilizer will only stabilize the right aileron (and the elevator). I had toned the ailerons and elevator down in the TX (DX9) to about 75% Aileron and 80% elevator, 30% expo on both. Had a GensAce 4S-1550mah-25C batt loaded. The winds were 10-ish, and gusty, and coming from our backs. I had my buddy hand launch it for me. He tossed it directly into the wind, which wasn't right down the runway; so, I had to make a quick turn. The launch was easy. I had to trim out quite a bit of climb and little roll, but after a couple passes, I had her trimmed in a purring. Even with the Ailerons and Elevator rates at 75% and 80%, respectively. The Dora was crazy responsive. For later flights, I drive the ailerons down to 50% and the elevator down to 70%. At these settings, her roll and pitch rates were still WAAAAY more than scale, but she flew fine as a hotliner. I'm going to try to mechanically reduce her throws, for better controlability and resolution with the TX (I hate having to reduce the rates that much with the radio).
I really like the Dora! She flew amazingly well and was a ton of fun!! At WOT, she flew like a hotliner and I could really crank her through turns and loops/Immelmanns. Beware of the elevator throw because she will snap out of a tight loop (accelerated stall). I purposefully cranked to hard on one to verify that she snap, and she did. Easily recovered though. She only snapped that one time and I was making some tight bank-n-yank turns (she has no rudder afterall... LOL) and she never snapped when I didn't want her to. Fantastic little airplane. If anyone is on the fence about getting one...get one, you won't be sorry!
I made two other flights yesterday and had a blast. With the 4S-1550, and mixed throttle flying, I landed at 5 minutes and was at 3.8v/cell. On another flight, I went to about 7.5 minutes and landed with 3.7v/cell. With slow, easy flying (which I wasn't doing), I could easily get 9 or 10 minutes, I think, with this battery.
Here's a lightly edited video of my Dora. Use a dorkcam on my cap, so a good bit of the flight is dust-dotty. I did cut out the middle of the flight because another plane took off and I had to fly more of a circuit pattern.
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Hello together, Me and my RottenKammerad fly the Dora together in a two ship formation and we are both excited. A great little always in the car plane. Too bad that the decals were already attached, which makes the work more difficult in an individualization. Also, I do not understand why in an aircraft which can be flown with different sized and heavy batteries, the battery pack is installed decentralized in the Fuselage . this was changed by us before the first flight.
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Originally posted by Dora Nine View PostSome progress pics of Dora #2. I decided at the last minute that wasn’t going to make Dortenmann’s A/C. Mostly because I don’t want to mess with paint lifting with masking tape. Hopefully Callie’s markings will be here soon.
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Nice progress, Dora Nine!
We took out our Doras earlier this week for some fun. There was a question posed earlier about launch angle. Here's a picture showing that even with an underhand toss and an abnormally steep launch angle, this bird is still easy to control.
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Hi I'm new, just ordered an Fw-190 and can't wait to fly it, just something nagging on my mind, it has a 30a esc and it's said you can run 4s 2200 batteries, my boggle is, won't a 4s burn out the esc as I've crash a Spitfire because I burnt out the 40A esc, I'm not worried as I have a 60a esc and as3x ready to go in and I will run 4s 2200 45c batts
When are you doing a Spitfire hint hint hehehe
Thank you in advance for any help
Paul
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Originally posted by Paultaizi View PostHi I'm new, just ordered an Fw-190 and can't wait to fly it, just something nagging on my mind, it has a 30a esc and it's said you can run 4s 2200 batteries, my boggle is, won't a 4s burn out the esc as I've crash a Spitfire because I burnt out the 40A esc, I'm not worried as I have a 60a esc and as3x ready to go in and I will run 4s 2200 45c batts
When are you doing a Spitfire hint hint hehehe
Thank you in advance for any help
Paul
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Just got back from an amazing afternoon of flying and maidening the Dora, what a great plane!!, I was flying without a gyro on 2200 4s and 2200 3s and it flew really solid and incredibly agile even on 50% rates, I had a couple of crashes due to browning out (military bases near by) and the only damage sustained was slight crumpling and broke the prop on the second crash but other than that no real damage, its a real tough little plane, great job with these fun fighters guys they truly rock,
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Originally posted by Paultaizi View PostJust got back from an amazing afternoon of flying and maidening the Dora, what a great plane!!, I was flying without a gyro on 2200 4s and 2200 3s and it flew really solid and incredibly agile even on 50% rates, I had a couple of crashes due to browning out (military bases near by) and the only damage sustained was slight crumpling and broke the prop on the second crash but other than that no real damage, its a real tough little plane, great job with these fun fighters guys they truly rock,
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https://www.motionrc.com/collections...ations-10a-bec This will fix you up!!!! Glad you are having fun!!! Jerry
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