Official FMS 1500mm P-47D Razorback Thread

[f4u ausie]

They r even valuable and hard to find here. I was just lucky.. better lucky than good

[Elbee]

Very very nice. Hindsight is 20/20 vision. Would like to go back a pick all the Gold Edition TopFlite kits. Ah, woulda, shoulda, coulds...ya snooze, ya lose.

[f4u ausie]

Steve it's a gold edition 85 inch top flight. The one with tarheel hal on the box

[davegee]

Hey guys. Hope U all well. I've been busy.. now wrong Thread but close.. just couple pics 4 those that matter. Hence wrong Thread. U all no the drill. Rub rub rub. Bla bla bla. Happy with SNAFU progress.

Good progress on Snafu, Craig! Gonna be a beautiful looking and flying airplane when done.

Cheers

Davegee

[Elbee]

Hey guys. Hope U all well. I've been busy.. now wrong Thread but close.. just couple pics 4 those that matter. Hence wrong Thread. U all no the drill. Rub rub rub. Bla bla bla. Happy with SNAFU progress.

Craig,

Which manufacturer produced your P-47?

Great work by the way.

Best, Steve

[jetfool]

Lookin Good. Takes lots of elbow grease but you will have a beautiful plane when finished.

[f4u ausie]

Sorry double trouble

[f4u ausie]

Hey guys. Hope U all well. I've been busy.. now wrong Thread but close.. just couple pics 4 those that matter. Hence wrong Thread. U all no the drill. Rub rub rub. Bla bla bla. Happy with SNAFU progress.

[davegee]

Good deal!!!

[Grossman56]

I was getting so frustrated trying to get back on. Mike J at MRC was trying his best. Today, he tried again to get me to log in using a different password he'd set up for me. I'd been trying this for almost a week since the hack, but nothing. Today, I just hit the log in with my old Password and it worked! Once in, I changed my password and hopefully everything should be good.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[davegee]

Hello All: I've been a member of HobbySquawk, I think since about 2013. A couple years ago, my account disappeared somehow and I had to have the techs at HobbySquawk help me. For years it was just "Davegee" but they couldn't get that to work. So now, I had to go by Davegeee with the extra "e" on the end to access the site.

Recently I tested it and it looks like my old "Davegee" that I used for many years still works. So, I prefer if you contact me if you could use the original Davegee with the two "e's on the end instead of Davegeee, that would be great. Looks like both will work for me now and I'll answer to either one.

Cheers

Davegee

[Davegeee]

Hi James: Is this pretty reliable info that they might be coming out with a V2 version of the P-47? There are a lot of great liveries to paint a new version up in, for instance, Little Chief flown by Lt. Frank Klibbe would be a great one if they do that. You have a little picture of it in your name tag info on your inputs. If I ever did get another razorback P-47, that might be one I would use. Or, just leave all the markings off and let the buyer have a "clean slate" to put whatever scheme they choose on the plane.

Cheers

Davegee

[vrosi1963]

V2 arf release 2026 ??????? i really doubt they would not just change the scheme and keep making money since it is very popular , Robert s Johnson would be a easy arf production scheme ,

[jetfool]

Eagle 15,
I have an FAA number that I acquired when they first came out. I haven't put any no. on my scale planes and since our club field is under a FRIA zone i think we can fly without it. Better check your area to be sure.
Best Regards, Rex

[Eagle15]

Hi all,
quick question, do any of yall have an FAA registration tag “displayed on the outside of your aircraft”?
This is my first time hearing about the whole FAA deal- I’ve never heard about needing to register an RC plane before, and preferably I don’t want a tag on my Thunderbolt!

[Davegeee]

Thanks Dave, just what I needed. Setting up the Spektrum from Futaba is a little different. Learning new things. I have been flying a E-Flite 1.5 Air Tractor to get my landing approaches smooth. 10 flights on it an so far have landed great. We have a grass field and keep it mowed short.
Did you enjoy your trip?
Best Regards, Rex

I think those settings should give you a safe start, anyway, and you can adjust them to your particular style of flying. I took up my Corsair for a couple of flights today, and it performed as beautifully as it did about 7+ years ago when it was new. I replaced both the main gear retract servos and it doesn't struggle to operate up and down anymore. It really makes for great takeoffs and landings like the real thing. The FMS P-47 is much along those lines too. I think you'll really enjoy flying it once you get enough flights to feel comfortable with it.

Cheers

Dave

[jetfool]

Thanks Dave, just what I needed. Setting up the Spektrum from Futaba is a little different. Learning new things. I have been flying a E-Flite 1.5 Air Tractor to get my landing approaches smooth. 10 flights on it an so far have landed great. We have a grass field and keep it mowed short.
Did you enjoy your trip?
Best Regards, Rex

[Davegeee]

Well I'm getting my P-47 switched over to my new Spektrum 8+ radio after removing my Futaba rec. And want to get the C/G correct. The manual states 90-95mm from the leading edge. Hoping Davegee will shout out his C/G and d/r & expo settings as I feel with 4 P-47 of his own he knows where the sweet spot is. I only put 2 flights on with Futaba before I added the scale details for the Toledo show last year. Trying to get the correct Spektrum settings dialed in. Thanks to all that respond.
Best Regards, Rex

Hi Rex: just saw your entry. All my FMS P-47s CG'd around the same area. Even the heavily modified bubbletop was in the same area as all the other stock razorbacks. They all averaged about 92-94mm from the leading edge of the wing backwards. It is a very stable aircraft.

For instance, my Penrod and Sam which is pretty close to your Lucky,had the following control throws:

Aileron:
1) low rates 55%, expo 25%
2) mid rates 65%, expo 25%
3) high rates 72% expo 25%

Elevator
1) low rates 68% expo 25%
2) mid rates 73%, expo 25%
3) high rates 84%, expo 25%

Rudder
1) low rates 70%, expo 50%
2) mid rates 85%, expo 50%
3) high rates 110%, expo35%

I normally operate in low to mid rates, rarely high rates. I have recently been experimenting raising expo on the rudder to 50% to help with ground handling for takeoffs and landing rollouts. Still in progress, but works pretty well so far.

At a minimum, even if I use low rates for everything, I usually bump up aileron to mid rates for more realistic performance as low rates can be too low roll rate for a WWII fighter.

Let me know how your flight goes when you put it back in the air again. I've found the FMS P-47 to be pretty easy to fly, wide wheel tracking helps keep it centered for takeoffs and landings, but still use moderate right rudder as needed to track straight down the runway.

Good luck!

Dave

[jetfool]

Thanks fru ausie, I'll look it up

[f4u ausie]

Rex if U r using as3x I found fat guy flys. About the best to learn. Still watched it over and over .. Many options flight modes. Or adjustable knob 4 gains. But persist. And reap the rewards