Official Nexa 1860mm PA-38 Tomahawk ARF Thread

[waterboy007]

Just completed my Tomahawk, fitted with a pair of 35” VMAR floats. I may have to wait until the spring for maiden flight (Canadian winter). This is an electric setup with an E-flite Power 60 brushless motor, 15x8 prop, 80Amp ESC. RTF weight is 10lbs 4oz (4.73Kg).

[Shempy]

Is a rcgf rear exhaust 15 too large

[Shempy]

Two large of an engine will it Mount properly

[CF-105]

Maidened my Traumahawk today!

Finished it up over the winter. Recovered as the full scale I solo’ed in back in the 80’s. The elevator setup was modified: I joined the two pieces with a “U” shaped piece of music wire. Rather than mounting servos in the tail, I used a single servo in the cockpit area. Flexible rod connects it to a bellcrank under the horizontal stab. A pushrod connects that to the elevator horn.

Power is an E-Flite Power 60B; I forget what I used for a prop. Might be a 16x8? At any rate it’s scale size for the model. Used a 6S 4000mah battery. Nothing larger would fit without cutting into things.

The flight went extremely well. The nail-biting happened during the takeoff. It required a surprising amount of runway to get airborne. In fact I was just about to abort when she finally broke ground. It’s a grass field, and quite soft at the moment. It needed very little trim - a bit of right aileron & some down elevator. Deploying flaps caused very little if any pitch change. Landing was with one notch of flap

[Creative RC]

A couple more photos of CF105's Plane.

[CF-105]

Thanks, Creative!

Unfortunately she went in on flight #2. After turning final to land, I got a bit too low and a bit too slow, and got caught in some ground-induced turbulence. Certainly repairable, mostly popped glue joints and a wing tube that would be at home in a Corsair. Some breakage though. Recovery was risky - there was a flock of Canada Geese (aka Cobra Chickens) resting in the field between me and it. Thankfully they flew off as I approached (doubly thankfully they didn’t fly overhead).

[Browneye77]

Thinking seriously about one of these for scale comp. Nice looking civilian aircraft. 👍
electric of course.
what is the deal with the servos? Cutouts the wrong size?

[paulhlee@Me.com]

Would an ePhil 20cc side exhaust motor fit in here or is that too big?

[CF-105]

It should fit a 20cc fine.

browneye: I find servo cutouts are rarely if ever the right size, regardless of manufacturer. The exception may be Horizon stuff, if you use their Spektrum servos. Maybe.

[victor.montalbo@gmail.com]

What is the largest size engine displacement two and four stroke nitro engine

[victor.montalbo@gmail.com]

Engines for tomahawk?