Official FlightLine RC 1600mm Spitfire Mk. IX Thread

[kallend]

I’d love to get this Spit but the guys at my club are putting me off because of tip stalls and being tricky to fly.

Maybe you should give them lessons if they think this Spit is tricky.

[Evan D]

I think the book just has too much elevator throw...

[RRHandy]

It does have hight speed stalling but you can fix that by setting up the elevator to the settings in the manual and it will not do it, I even went as far as setting the limits in the radio to 85% up travel and haven't had another stall. R.

[Simon Bee]

Super easy to fly. Super super easy...

👍👍

[Evan D]

Super easy to fly. Super super easy...

[Simon Bee]

I’d love to get this Spit but the guys at my club are putting me off because of tip stalls and being tricky to fly.
Not been flying for long (about 3 months) but I’m flying quite comfortably EDF jets (Habu, Rebel and Avanti). How do people find this aircraft??

[sngecko]

They came on the one in my V1200, I suspect as they predicted people would use bigger props to try and go faster.

Makes sense. It is nice and snug under battery tray now. My understanding is that the Spitfire motor will draw as much as ~60A, so that’s handled, and I get the RPM and power telemetry through the 8360T. Thanks!

[Evan D]

They came on the one in my V1200, I suspect as they predicted people would use bigger props to try and go faster.

[kallend]

I guess I can answer my own question now… (This place is no regroups.) Once the fan is removed, it fits in the compartment. The motor leads are pretty long and I ended up cooling them near the front. It would be better if the battery leads were longer, but they’ll work.

I don't have one in this plane but I took the fan off another one I have with no ill effects. I suspect the fan is only needed for cars and trucks with no natural airflow to cool the ESC.

[sngecko]

Does anyone know whether a Spektrum Avian 80A ESC will fit in this plane? It lists as 1.3 inches tall, but I think that includes a small fan attached to the top that may not be necessary. The motor leads are longer and the battery leads appear to be shorter?

I guess I can answer my own question now… (This place is no regroups.) Once the fan is removed, it fits in the compartment. The motor leads are pretty long and I ended up cooling them near the front. It would be better if the battery leads were longer, but they’ll work.

[sngecko]

Does anyone know whether a Spektrum Avian 80A ESC will fit in this plane? It lists as 1.3 inches tall, but I think that includes a small fan attached to the top that may not be necessary. The motor leads are longer and the battery leads appear to be shorter?

[kallend]

This looks to be interesting if you're in the UK:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10337381/Largest-collection-Spitfires-one-roof-12-aircraft-display-Duxford-air-museum.html

[Asuka]

I take back what I said because I just received an email for his availability. Coincidence, no doubt, but the important thing is that I will finally have it ☺

[Asuka]

I wanna get a spare fuselage and MotionRC Europe has been out of stock for more than 6 months now. For once, I am a little disappointed by Motion. Such a lack of consideration for customers through such a poor availability of spare parts worries a little. I hope they will do their best to finally provide a spare fuselage. Not very confident, after 6 months without any return, I must say.

[royhdg]

Last paragraph of #3054 above.
Just a few small washers under rear fixings to rake wheels forward about 16mm.
The gear still retracts ok.
(not my idea. I read about this mode perhaps in this forum or another)

[Ankor]

The undercarriage mod works great, it makes taxing and take off run a breeze.
It nosed over on the first landing and discovered the wheel spat had dug in and snapped half of it off.
Second landing was a great 3 pointer without any hesitation of nosing over.
I might repair the spat and round of the leading edge, but remove them until the grass is cut again.

Excuse me but what is the undercarriage mod? It sounds interesting but I am not aware of it.

[Hugh Wiedman]

royhdg Sweeeet! Love the sound system with the Merlin engine as well, have it in mine and always get some 2nd looks and queries on whether it is an electric, like REALLY, you can't tell a gas engine when you hear it??

[royhdg]

Youtube link received from a friend of my Spitfire landing last Sunday

https://youtu.be/5kdT4UPY9k8

[royhdg]

The undercarriage mod works great, it makes taxing and take off run a breeze.
It nosed over on the first landing and discovered the wheel spat had dug in and snapped half of it off.
Second landing was a great 3 pointer without any hesitation of nosing over.
I might repair the spat and round of the leading edge, but remove them until the grass is cut again.

[Hugh Wiedman]

Yes, It happened to me. Luckily it was still on the setup bench.
I setup the Spitfire using a Specktrum 637T. I use a Spektrum IX12 transmitter.
The following day I double checked the setup, I connected the battery to the esc, the receiver didn't light up and the esc didn't sound it's usual beeps.
All I got was 1 beep every 1 second, the prop moving slightly with the beeps. It took 4 attempts at unplugging and plugging the battery back in for everything to come to life.
In 10 years of model flying this never happened before. The esc continued to work following this but I completely lost confidence in the esc supplied with the aircraft. I fitted a
E-Flite 80A esc for the maiden. It flew great, 3 good landing without nosing over, but a tendency to nose over on initial take off run.
I have just fitted a MR RC Sound to the bird and sound is great. Increased up elevator for taxing and increase forward rake of undercarriage by using 3 small washers under rear fixing. The rake has moved the wheels forward about 16mm and taxies great in garden. Will be trying everything out at the field over the next 3 days.

Happened to me as well about 2 months ago, everything connected but it didn't give me the 6 beeps indicating the # of cells in the battery. Unfortunately, I didn't really notice the missing beeps and as I did hear some single beeps I just hooked up the sound system thinking I'm just a little deaf and taxied out. Took off OK, only slightly sluggish, but thought that was do to slightly longer grass. Once in the air, it would not go to full throttle (maybe 50%) and executed an emergency landing. All worked out and took it to the bench and confirmed the lack of correct beeps. Replaced the ESC with a spare I had from a previous Spitty and back in business. The first ESC I've had crap out on me, after only about 50 flights. The ESC I stuck in had 200 flights on it before the wing tubes separated in a high G Split S, my fault for not reducing throttle earlier. So it does happen.