Official FlightLine RC 1600mm F7F-3 Tigercat Thread

[davegee]

His blades stay in a blur when you pause where mine don't so they look a bit odd as you say.


TigerCat 1st HD 11Mar2021

Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Is it due to a different frame rate of the cameras, or something?

Is that your field, Evan? Looks first rate, very nice! Where is it located? Just curious.

Thanks

Davegee

[Evan D]

His blades stay in a blur when you pause where mine don't so they look a bit odd as you say.


TigerCat 1st HD 11Mar2021

[davegee]

A buddy of mine and I got to talking about how good the tigercat would be for fpv. After a couple years of talking about it, I finally made it happen

This is one of the best quality cockpit videos I have seen, especially from the perspective of the prop blades spinning. These look very realistic. On other videos there is a bad distortion of the blades somehow giving some really funky looking images of the blades spinning. I'm not sure why some videos do that, but in this one, thankfully, it was not present.

Good job!

Davegee

[Denniswpb]

Denniswpb
Kind of like seeing your ex-girlfriend and she's on a date, but then the new guy spills a soda on her and she breaks a heel on her way to the the Ladies Room.........or maybe not.

Gotta hurt a little.

Best, LB

I know, right?

[Evan D]

What?!?! Crazy....

[Elbee]

Denniswpb
Kind of like seeing your ex-girlfriend and she's on a date, but then the new guy spills a soda on her and she breaks a heel on her way to the the Ladies Room.........or maybe not.

Gotta hurt a little.

Best, LB

[Denniswpb]

Got tired of flying my Tigercat over the past 4 years and sold it to a club member. Of course. the first landing he stalled it right into the runway an busted the struts. :disappointed:

[rifleman_btx]

I 100% agree

[Evan D]

It's about my best FPV platform.

[rifleman_btx]

A buddy of mine and I got to talking about how good the tigercat would be for fpv. After a couple years of talking about it, I finally made it happen

[Grossman56]

I guess I have a hybrid, my nose gear is the upgraded, but the mains are stock. I recently replaced one retract mechanism and when I tried to install the strut, the hole was too small, it felt like a typical 'bur' or something and I fully expected it to finally drive home. No such luck. Now its in so tight I can't get it out, but the good news is that it works fine, I figured a couple of landings would knock it into place but so far, no such luck, that's how tight it is. Now, I have a set of upgraded main struts but I had trouble with the set screws always backing off, so I went back to the stock struts. I've doctored the upgraded struts so that now I wouldn't mind trying them again, but I'd have to replace that retract again, which is just a p.i.t.a. so she's staying the way she is. Frankly, I've flown it for over 90% of her life with the configuration I have now and I'm fine with it.



Grossman56

[Evan D]

I agree upgrading the P-38 struts, at least the mains is a big improvement.

[ICM]

Sorry, double post.

[ICM]

I have both the silver and olive green P-38's and fly off a decently kept Club grass field. The green P-38 has stock struts and the silver upgraded suspension struts. On less than perfect landings, I find the green will bounce while the silver absorbs the shock and will bounce only on MUCH less than perfect landings.

[Evan D]

That would be great but why charge more, after all they are trying to make happy customers not make money.

Seriously, I have been very happy with the stock gear.

[ICM]

Anyone else think that Motion should just offer the Tigercat with the upgraded landing gear struts installed and charge an extra$10-$20, thereby saving buyers the time and effort of ordering, waiting for delivery, removing the stock struts and installing the upgrades? After all, the Corsair, Spitfire, B-25 and Bronco come stock with suspension gear.

[Denniswpb]

Hey Dennis, I am just finishing the electrics in my FlightLine Corsair. It has zero flight time and trunnion slop is beyond the pale.

I've thought about how to reduce this, but without redesigning the case, I don't know what it would take to minimize the play.

I have an older set of Dave Brown mechanical retracts. These are aluminum cased with nylon trunnions, and have over a 100 flights in my .60 sized Chipmunk. These are still tight.

It is a matter of cost, no doubt.

Best, LB

The Corsair retracts are terrible! I have several posts in the Corsair Forum about the retracts.:rage:

[Denniswpb]

Dennis,
My FL Tigercat has the same slop and I'm just getting the first ten flights on it and no damage or problems with them. Some landings have been bounced in yet no problems.

Best Regards, Rex

Same here... I have probably 30 flights on it and never had one collapse yet, but it sounds like a bucket of bolts when taxiing out to the runway!

[jetfool]

Dennis,
My FL Tigercat has the same slop and I'm just getting the first ten flights on it and no damage or problems with them. Some landings have been bounced in yet no problems.

Best Regards, Rex

[Elbee]

I have a lot of slop in all 3 retracts on my Tigercat. It's not the struts, it's the trunnions on the retracts. So far, the retracts have not collapsed, which with the amount of slop forward and aft, I'm amazed each time I land. Has anyone experienced this, and is there anyway to take out the slop, or are the retracts just getting worn out?

Hey Dennis, I am just finishing the electrics in my FlightLine Corsair. It has zero flight time and trunnion slop is beyond the pale.

I've thought about how to reduce this, but without redesigning the case, I don't know what it would take to minimize the play.

I have an older set of Dave Brown mechanical retracts. These are aluminum cased with nylon trunnions, and have over a 100 flights in my .60 sized Chipmunk. These are still tight.

It is a matter of cost, no doubt.

Best, LB