E Flite Spitfire

[Grossman56]

Looks great Jeremy!!

Grossman56

[JeremySean]

Love my Eflite Spit!

[Grossman56]

I know this plane isn’t talked about as much but if any of you are considering going 4s I highly recommend it. I’ve had this plane for over a year now and it was collecting dust because of how slow it was. I recently bought a 70a ZTW ESC and it is incredible now. I need to put the gps in it to see what speed it flies at but I swear it’s close to my EDF planes. It flies and lands perfectly with a 4s 3300mah battery. I get about 6 minutes of hard throttle.

Does anyone know what paint is a match? If not, I’ll go get some matched.

I just went to Ace and had them color match it, $5 for a pint of paint beats the :Poo:out of buying Testors or similar paints. All mine with the exception of the yellow Pandora (rattle can) can been painted with Ace sample paint works great!!

Grossman56

[C17loadmaster]

The video doesn’t give a very good idea of what the vertical is like now

https://youtu.be/DRRuKnQ9EQY

[C17loadmaster]

I just finished the maiden on mine using Admiral 4s 3000’s and 2500’s with 1 oz of weight on the 2500’s to make them the same weight. I flew 5 to 6 minutes of 60 to 70% throttle and came down with 3.7 to 3.8 per cell. I flew all stock and didn’t notice any excessive heat on the motor or esc. The plane flew great and had more than enough power for me. The torque on takeoff is substantial even easing into the throttle and only using about 70% throttle on take off. I did scuff the wingtips a little on landings asphalt is not very forgiving on foam.

I flew yesterday too and it is awesome. I’ll have my wife video next time. I punch the throttle and it takes about 5 feet on grass before it jumps off the grass. It has unlimited vertical. I’ve never had a plane with so much power to weight

[farmflyer]

I just finished the maiden on mine using Admiral 4s 3000’s and 2500’s with 1 oz of weight on the 2500’s to make them the same weight. I flew 5 to 6 minutes of 60 to 70% throttle and came down with 3.7 to 3.8 per cell. I flew all stock and didn’t notice any excessive heat on the motor or esc. The plane flew great and had more than enough power for me. The torque on takeoff is substantial even easing into the throttle and only using about 70% throttle on take off. I did scuff the wingtips a little on landings asphalt is not very forgiving on foam.

[C17loadmaster]

I know this plane isn’t talked about as much but if any of you are considering going 4s I highly recommend it. I’ve had this plane for over a year now and it was collecting dust because of how slow it was. I recently bought a 70a ZTW ESC and it is incredible now. I need to put the gps in it to see what speed it flies at but I swear it’s close to my EDF planes. It flies and lands perfectly with a 4s 3300mah battery. I get about 6 minutes of hard throttle.

Does anyone know what paint is a match? If not, I’ll go get some matched.

[farmflyer]

I haven't yet I'm going to run it stock and see. In the RCG thread the man from Horizon that developed the plane said it was designed to run on 3s or 4s on the stock set up. I remember his name Chris Pucket

[RCjetdude]

I have not modified mine.

[Grossman56]

Just took the receiver out of mine and replaced it with a Lemon receiver I had. I wasn't a big fan of the stock receiver, so. Now, did you guys change out the ESC in order to run 4s in this plane??

Grossman56

[RCjetdude]

I recently got one of these and am also going to use 4s in it. The Admiral 4000 balances it perfectly. Are you using any extra weight with the 3200's?

To be clear, I use 3S not 4S packs and it will balance fine with no additional weight using the 3200's. I think that using 2200's like it recommends would leave it tail heavy based on what I could tell.

[farmflyer]

I have flown a 4000 pack in mine but it is a little heavy for the plane. I don't like the way it behaves so I tend to just use 3200's in it instead. It will do it but...

I recently got one of these and am also going to use 4s in it. The Admiral 4000 balances it perfectly. Are you using any extra weight with the 3200's?

[farmflyer]

For anyone interested the wing bolts are 3mmx0.50 thread.

[farmflyer]

I got one of these in from Mrc today when I tried to bolt the main wing on one of the brass inserts was not threaded. Does anyone know what the tap size and thread is for these. I opened a ticket with Mrc I just hate to go to the trouble of sending it back and getting a new one. By the way this would be the first time I might have to return something.

[Grossman56]

When I was having trouble with one retract on my Spitfire, my good buddy Warbird Charlie gave me that answer, here's a quote of the message originally posted in 'All
Us Intermediates, Lets Share' thread
"Dan,
Usually one of the sides that the etract mounts to is not in parallel with the other side which is confirmed by you loosening screws as you mentioned which takes the twist out of the side frame of the retract. That twisting action is enough to trip the stall current sensor on the circuit in the etract. It really happens quite a bit on Dynam and occasionally with Freewing(FlightLine)
Warbird Charlie

ScaleTech OV-10 Bronco; HSD A1 Skyraider; FlightLine: F7F-2D, P-38 Allied Green, Sea Fury; FMS 1400: P-40B, Stuka, P-51 Marie, F4U Olathe, F6F, T-28, P-40E and a Fox glider; Freewing: A6, P-51; VQ: P-39, JU-52; LX PBJ-1(B-25); Dynam: ME-262, FW-190, Waco, Catalina; Phoenix: Spitfire, Dauntless; Maxford Antonov AN-2; Starmax L-4 Grasshopper; Eflite 1100 T-28 float; Tech1 P40; DTFB DR-1; Sonic Modell Pitts Python"

[TomC]

I'm thinking, these 4 screws are not tighten very evenly from the factory and this somewhat binds the retracts..they are mostly made of plastic.:)

[Grossman56]

that's what I ended up doing as well, Charlie was telling me that it's not unusual.

Grossman56

[TomC]

I have noticed on a couple my E-flite 1.2 planes the retracts hanging up brand new out of the box, I did resolve the problems by loosing up the 4 screws that hold the retracts in there mounts just a little problem solved ....:)

[Grossman56]

Interesting, I've had the strut get too far inside the retract mechanism and the latest trouble with it was that one was intermittently hanging up. Got that solved and she seems fine now, of course after I had to belly her in. No damage though,the plane is capable of flying so slow that I brought her in gear up and settled her down on a sage brush patch. Fixed the gear and she's good as new.

Grossman56

[bjohnsonav8r]

Hi Folks. I'm new to the forum and was wondering if anyone has had an issue with the spitfire's retracts? Specifically, my bird has a "waddle" when taxying on pavement. The tires have a bit of toe in and hang up when going in and out of the wheel wells too. Called Horizon Hobby and the PS person I spoke to was a bit perplexed, but surmised that the wing may not be formed properly, so he sent me a new one. Will know more when I swap everything to the new wing. Kudos to HH for stepping up to help fix the problem.