Official Freewing 1400mm Pandora 4-in-1 Thread

[Grossman56]

I rebound mine and got her set for flying again, should be a hoot, haven't flown 3s in years. I'll probably pick up a couple of small 4s batteries just for the heck of it.

Thanks for the reminder, After I got out of the primary trainer a Piper Cub that's still hanging from my basement ceiling, this Pandora got the crap flown out of her until I progressed to warbirds. There was a bunch of us on H/S at that time who were all at the same level. I had a thread going titled "All Us Newbies Lets Share" and it was quite popular at the time.



Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[boomer108]

I still love flying mine every now and then even after 7 years.

[FR4-Pilot]

Yeah, covid and quad copters threw me off for a while. I recently joined a club (Chicago RC Modelers) and am revisiting my old planes. Going to set up my old Sensei as a night flyer for the club’s once a month night fly events - should be awesome - I’m excited to be flying both of these planes again :)

[FR4-Pilot]

Sweet paint job too! I bet that was an awesome thread - I miss threads like those.

[FR4-Pilot]

FYI, this upgrade motor is back in stock at FMS.
I just picked up a spare :)

https://www.fmshobby.com/products/3536-kv850-motor

[Grossman56]

If you're interested, here's "All us newbies lets share" thread. I hope it still can help fellow pilots out. Man, there's a lot of guys there that I haven't seen around in a long time!

https://www.hobbysquawk.com/forum/rc-airplanes/miscellaneous-rc-radio-control-topics/739-all-us-newbie-pilots-lets-share

[Grossman56]

BTW, I have those motors in both of mine. You might want to upgrade the ESC as well.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[FR4-Pilot]

Awesome - I will check out that thread - Thanks!

At some point years ago I had upgraded the ESC in the Pandora to 40A. When I tried a 4S pack the watt meter said 47A at full throttle, so now it has a 50A ESC.

I’m also pulling out my 1st gen Sensei to bring to the club’s night flys. She’s pretty sluggish all stock so she just got a 40A ESC upgrade and a beefier motor. Still 3S but around 100W more power. Got a bunch of flashing strobe/LEDs to stick on next …

Fun stuff !