Official FlightLine RC 1600mm P-38 Lightning Thread

[rifleman_btx]

Actually it's like that because the gear didnt go down and the door closed on it afterwards.

[Dual Prop Dave]

I concur! I love mine also! She turns heads and always has a crowd around her when she gets unloaded at the field. I'm sure MRC will make it right as always. They're unbeatable when it comes to customer service!

[OV10]

Gotta ask why you have the scissor link removed? The door doesn't look like it is opened fully either which could be the cause of the retract not wanting to close. ;)

[rifleman_btx]

It keeps getting hung up internally. I pulled it apart then it did the same thing again the retract is just faulty it seems. But what a beautiful flying plane, taking those landing you can't even hear the gear touch the ground when they do, almost as if the runway was sloped in the same path as the glide slope, it was awesome!

[Dual Prop Dave]

Speaking of simplicity maidened my P38 today and the nose gear stuck... luckily in the extended position. So the flight went without incident thankfully. However quite bummed about the gear failing after working on the ground before flight every time.

Congrats on the successful Maiden Rifleman,:p38 Sucks about the nose gear.:blueangry Let us know what you find as the cause.

[rifleman_btx]

Speaking of simplicity maidened my P38 today and the nose gear stuck... luckily in the extended position. So the flight went without incident thankfully. However quite bummed about the gear failing after working on the ground before flight every time.

[rifleman_btx]

Theres always a thing to be said for simplicity

[SoLongSidekick]

If you slow the video down you can see the beveled cut on the tail and the two nubs for the landing gear in the forward part of the main wing. It's very quick to spot but they are there, as there really is only one frame in the video you can see it clearly, but then as the planes fall it looks like a solid tail without the notch. The other reason you can't see it so clear is because they are turning top towards the camera and the tail planes cover eachother right after contact making it very hard to see. I saw it at full speed, but all the details are there, However in not so plain of view. If you turn the plane near inverted and canopy to us in your pic, put it in gray scale you will see what I'm talking about.

. I'm glad you got the series and parallel straight, yikes that could have been a mess!:Whew:

now to the mockup, I like that!:Cool:

Yeah I'm really happy with the way it turned out. I got the idea for that type of kill box from My Little Pig, as I knew I wanted more than just standard kill markers but couldn't think of a great way to lay it out. This made things super simple.

The more I see images of people on RC Groups who have removed the nose cone and cowling paint and gone back to the full OD/tan scheme the more I clean my livery up. With that nose art, the black rudders, and either black tipped spinners or a black spiral on the spinners, and the shark mouths I'll be done. Quite a bit less work than I originally planned on.

[rifleman_btx]

SLS, here's your answer I was right in that it was a curtiss plane but they were the helldivers not P40s.

[rifleman_btx]

Upon hearing this what I might do is actually stick with the 2700 packs, will have to see how she flys and go from there.

[jagdpanther9]

yes, and like you say , it is a good idea to have the 2 packs in case if one side goes down.

[jagdpanther9]

i havnt run a single 5000mah yet but i had a pair of 4000 from another model and i bought a pair of the admiral 3000 35c 4s for this model when i ordered it.at first i was really thinking about buying another pair of 4000s but after a dozen flights i was really hooked on the lighter 3000 packs. with the 4000s i was really adding allot of elevator and nearly stalling with full flaps. i really like the 3000 packs as i dont need full flaps and can slow down much better when landing.

[rifleman_btx]

Ah yeah, that is true, my first one I was flying with a single 5000mah battery. I'm not really looking for that performance in a heavier 2 pack setup. I'm also doing a parallel adaptor kinda for a safety thing incase of what happened with my 5000 pack, I had a cell let go in flight and the plane fell right out of the sky like a brick. I rather have some sort of a relative backup of sorts with two batteries keeping the voltage safe if one battery pops a cell in flight. Seems to be the best way in my mind for redundancy in power supply.

[jagdpanther9]

i dont mind the 4000 packs in this model it seems to pack a little more punch and another 2 min to flight times but you do notice the extra weight . i really like the 3000 4s 35c as it flys allot more nimble and still makes 5 min + flight times.

[rifleman_btx]

No worries, I've been debating going 4000 or not. My first packs will be 2700 as that is all I have at the moment besides the 4000 packs I have for the tigercat. And 3000 was my mid option, of such I would have to buy. however I like the idea of keeping my batteries uniform between planes so to keep my buying packs to a minimum.

[jagdpanther9]

yes that was my mistake i ment 3000 mah packs. sorry for the confusion.

[rifleman_btx]

I wasnt sure I caught it correctly, did you say 3000mah 3S packs?

[jagdpanther9]

hi guys, i just had my P-38 "thoughts of midnight" out last week and made a quick video of how well this model can take off and land in grass. i do have the oleo strut upgrade and some dubro diamond tread wheels on my model. it really handles rough grass well and of course what a fantastic model! i hope you all enjoy it! ( if i can remember how to attach a video!)

[rifleman_btx]

Yeah but the pods on the B-25, B-26, A-26, etc. aren't gun pods in the modern sense. As in mounting on a missile/tank hardpoint and being easily removable.

My gallery keeps growing. Found 54 new examples today, bringing the grand total up to 297. Never thought it would get this big. While I was searching for new aircraft I stumbled across this, while reminded me of one of the saddest potential components of returning to normal life after war.

Could be a Curtiss RA-25A

[rifleman_btx]

Yeah that one hurt like hell. Not just cause she left like that, but because she took my 3 boys away.