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“Awesome little jet. I started out bone stock with landing gear. Flew pretty good. Decided to upgrade to the 4s motor and fan. Gained a little speed. Handles rough landings pretty good. The landing gear wire is a little weak,bends and breaks pretty easy.”
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“This is one great little airplane. It is my second EDF jet, and it flies amazing. I put a spectrum receiver in it with a gyro. This airplane is easy to land, I have the wheels on it. I have learned so much from this jet and it is so much fun to fly, I bought a second one in case I crashed the first one. I'm still flying my first one and it has almost 100 flights on it! This is one great jet!!”
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“What a great litle plane. Flies like a proper jet and is responsive to inputs instantaneously. Watch out for it speed though it will fool you. Good and fast but has somenice slow glide characteristics.”
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“The F9F is an ideal introductory EDF jet. It is not a beginner or even a second plane, but once you can fly low wing planes you can try flying the F9F.My 4 star rating is because of the instructions. In the manual I have, one is instructed to have the CG at 45 mm from the leading edge. This is an incorrect CG. This makes the jet waaay too tail heavy and extremely difficult to control, as stated in the RCGroups forum. The correct CG is around 36 mm from the leading edge. At this CG the plane will fly well. If you are flying it as a belly lander, the CG can be achieved by installing a 1800 mAh 3S Tattu battery at 45C, as far forward as you can put it. No nose weight is needed. If you are installing the landing gear, I recommend a battery like the Lectron Pro 1800. It is smaller than the Tattu but you can push it to where the nose servo is and you can also achieve a correct CG. The instructions also omit a very critical part of the assembly: removing the paint from all surfaces to be glued. This is very important. If you don't do this the plane will eventually break apart since you are gluing paint to paint, not foam to foam. As it is, the only thing holding the plane together is the epoxy-there are not carbon wing or tail joiners or spars. So take your time and remove as much paint from all surfaces to be glued-wings to fuse and tabs, elevator roots to tail, tail group to fuse. This is what took me the most time during the assembly-it took about 1 1/2 hours to do this. Yes, it's a very tedious process but is critical if you don't want the plane to break apart in flight.The recommended high throws are waaay too much. The plane will do very well if your high throws are the low throws as stated in the manual. Little aileron throw is needed. Too much will make the plane rather uncontrollable. 5 mm of elevator throw is enough to perform loops, Cuban 8s and all those scale jet maneuvers. Don't do high G maneuvers-remember that the plane is held together only by the epoxy-no spars or joiners of any kind. To counteract this a bit, I recommend poking holes in all surfaces to be glued so that the epoxy can provide some sort of reinforcement and stronger joints. I would recommend that Freewing improved the assembly of this wonderful jet-use the system that E-Flite or Flightline use (screws for the wings and tail, carbon joiners for both wings and tail to both provide a stronng joint and ensure accurate alignment) .”
