Got this from Hobby King the other day, £52 delivered :)
(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/293582_10150325386712484_635522483_8455281_445842739_n.jpg)
50mm EDF
(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/293377_10150325387207484_635522483_8455282_1677514970_n.jpg)
Unique setup for ailerons and elevators from one servo, elevon fashion:
(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/302930_10150325388657484_635522483_8455288_1866368217_n.jpg)
Someone wanted me to do an unboxing but... it was a fuselage, two wings, a tail, a nosecone, horiz. stab. and some pushrods - nothing much to look at really lol
I'll do a maiden on tuesday hopefully when my gear arrives for it - have bought:
a) onboard vmixer for elevons (I'm using it on my 2.4GHz radio which has no mixing capability)
b) 2x 1000mAh 3cell lipos, as they're only good for a few minutes of flight
I'm having to use it on 2.4GHz because the receiver is small enough to fit - the Futaba 35MHz ones won't fit at all - this thing is tiny heh. Happily, it's full-range 2.4 stuff, not just parkflyer so it'll be good for a fair distance.
The plan is to get some of that nano 5.8GHz gear that Gordon uses, so I can do some fast FPV.
Next plane after this will be either an AXN Floater, or an FPV Raptor - I need to speak to Simon (BigNose13) to see how he rates it first though. I did want an Icon A5 but have decided to get a nice floaty FPV plane for more conventional stuff, and this quick little plane for blasting around with :)
Can't wait for the maiden.
Niiiice :)
Looking forward to the flight vid ;)
looks good Steve, I hope you keyed those wing joints in when you glued them together, they have a tendency of coming of, O and keep an eye on the stock servos, mine striped the cogs.
Good Luke with the maiden.
:) G
I've taped them on as well Gordon as I wasn't convinced they'd stay on lol. I've also threadlocked the screws so they can't come loose as that would be a disaster :o
Looks good Steve, I have had a couple of phase 3 F16's and they are great fun even on stock power setups, probably not the best choice as an fpv plane but good fun none the less.
vroom vroom!!
Quote from: Steve W on October 22, 2011, 11:51:29 PM
Got this from Hobby King the other day, £52 delivered :)
Next plane after this will be either an AXN Floater,
I bought the AXN Floater from HK and was stung with import duty for £33 :o
Ouch - heh...
Steve w a fast jobby for sure looking forward to some video from her good luck with the fpving her ;)
dizzy
Woohoo - batteries and elevon mixer arrived so it's GO GO GO!
All I can say is... WOAH! :D :o
So, I stuffed it a few times while I got myself dialled in (having been used to a WildHawk, and not having any rates or expo on my 2.4GHz transmitter), but man - once I got used to it... *big gormless grin* :D
I'm gonna buy another one just so I don't have any down-time if/when I kill this one. Great fun, never flown an EDF, or anything remotely aerobatic / fast before.
Batteries are already on charge ;D
And only 25 quid plus shipping :D
all sounds great Steve W, we gonna get any video of this little blighter?
As for dual rates, on my Jetiger, I found it useful to have rates set at 50% for slower flying and 85-90% for aerobatics. I forgot to switch my rates to low when launching once and nearly did a loop and smacked the plane into my face. that was scary.
I dont have rates, expo, mixing or anything like that on my 2.4 transmitter, so I'm stuck with calibrating my fingers - took a while! :o
Quote from: Steve W on October 25, 2011, 05:20:23 PM
so I'm stuck with calibrating my fingers - took a while! :o
Hence the reason you chopped them off making your wing? :D
Good news Steve, and jeepers, $25... it'd be daft not to really :laugh:
Steve, that looks identical to the Phase 3 EF-16 like my mate's one
I was thinking that when I saw your video mate - I'll try to get some video of this one once the wind dies down (not much luck lately!)
I was given one of these a while ago. The guy went HK mad and bought loads of stuff. He got one of these and he said it was too small and would I like it?
Of course.
So I got him to give me an Rx too, and then I got a couple 800mah 3s packs from Giant Cod and we took it on the plane to America in a bin bag... Customs people were fascinated.
I flew it at on the top of a mountain in Topanga State park in California (I will post pictures soon), At Yellowstone - at some remote car park place and we found a deserted bit of pristine beach on Yellowstone lake... Was simply stunning there, and of course flying something made it 102020293821% better, and a few other places (I can't remember right now). But it met it's demise when It crashed and a wing broke off... It broke at the glue joint so I could have glued it back on. My mum moved it and then by the time I found the wing I had ripped the electronics out. A shame really. It flies very nicely and handles wind beautifully.
I also re did the linkages so it had 'tailerons' - elevon mixing on the elevators. It worked so much better than the stock setup. A shame I was dumb and destroyed it as it was great to fly.
It has tailerons/elevons anyway
All four control surfaces move whether it be up/down/left/right :)
Disconnect the ailerons. Just have the tail surfaces moving. Then tape the ailerons still. It flies infinitely better.
Say again? Surely it'd have less roll authority?
Nope. Just have plenty of throw (and lots of expo) and it flies brilliantly. I believe I also programmed in some differential. E.g. in a roll to the right, the right hand elevon will deflect upwards more than the left hand one deflects downwards. This causes more drag on the right hand side so it aids the turning. It makes the rolls more 'barrely', but it rolls so fast that it doesn't matter on this plane.
Really, do it. You will not regret it. This really is a brilliant little plane. It's really fun to fly and is perfect for taking on holidays. Just break off the vertical stabilizer and then glue it back on with super glue when you get there. The super glue allows it to be broken off easily, but in flight it will be fine.
So just get rid of the crappy ailerons, and it will be really good.
Sheldon
Ok here is a picture in Topanga state park in California:
(http://s8.postimage.org/6hjv9tfo1/F_16_Topanga.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/6hjv9tfo1/)
Excuse the sunglasses and the odd pose. I had just launched it and you can see a large amount of deflection on the right hand 'taileron'. Also the left hand one appears level since I was also using up elevator
And wind is no problem at all for this - as you can see by my clothing, it was blowing a gale up there and was about 8000ft density altitude. It worked like a charm.
Sheldon
I bought a phase 3 ef-16 a few years back and have only flown it a handful of times, was considering making it a fpv plane, super fast, 80mph straight out of the box! need to master the skywalker first!
Good Luck