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Freewing Banshee 64mm Sport EDF Jet - PNP Reviews

4.8 Rating 91 Reviews
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I flew this today for the first time these are my thoughts. Its a great looking plane, I am a sucker for green planes! Love this shade of green! Really nice looking and has great features, Glad for the flaps. I have to confess I never flew this on 4s. I bought one of these 2500kv inrunner setups and installed it in this plane. This is, by far the most powerful 64mm setup that I have flown. I have hotrodded lots of 64mm units and this one is by far the best! I cant believe that freewing isnt selling these in this plane. I am not kidding this will give a 70mm edf on 6s a run for its money if not best it. So happy to find a 64mm setup that performs Like I think it should. Plane flew well with no bad habits. Its like a smaller avanti. I used a lemon rx 7 channel gyro receiver in it. Have to turn the gains down really low or it will oscillate. I ran the wires to the front of the plane and put the receiver up there in the nose. I don't know why freewing recommends ridiculous aileron high rates. If you use them it will spin like a top. I always program my high rates using their recommended low rates and this works out really well. You can adjust from there. I did not add any elevator down with my flaps and it seems just fine. I forgot to add that I flew this on a 6S 3300mah 60c battery pushed all the way back to the back of the battery bay as far as it will go. I also installed a 60 amp 6S capable esc. Super happy, can't wait to fly it again!
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I have (8) jets ranging from a Royal Mace with 6s upgrade to the 90mm Super Scorpion. The Banshee is still, with a variety of options available in my "hanger" the go to plane I grab when I fly. I upgraded it to a 6s and it basically does everything I want. This is a fantastic plane and I highly recommend it as av first time or experienced flyer. I've never had an issue with it. It is durable, well built, and easy to fly.
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The plane flies very well ... without the landing gear! I only fly the 6S motor/fan but the 4S works very well too.But it's very hard to hand launch with one hand. There's no good place to grip so I do a two handed launch. But this only works with the Flex Aura Lite gyro because it has a launch assist mode. It keeps the wings level and a 30 degree climb while you pick up your transmitter again. I've found that you can stall the jet in a turn if you don't keep your airspeed up. And on belly landing you need to keep the nose up. If it snags the grass the nose breaks off.
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Flys like a larger jet love it
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There are eight of us with this model and we fly then together whenever we can…It's a great fun aircraft!The aileron throw in the manual is too much, we have all reduced ours to ~ 10mm maximum
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Landing gear is solid and for grass (still) no need for the improved version. Not flown without landing gear yet.Maybe convert to 6S later :-)
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This is a great little plane. I fly off grass, so I flew it a couple of times with the gear on and it did sorta okay. I then took the gear off and hand launched and belly landed it, and it made it SO MUCH BETTER! With throttle management on a 4s 2200mah, I was able to get a 7 minute flight. I can easily get 5 minutes of spirited flight. It could use a bit more speed, but it is just 4s. I wish they made a 6s version.
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I am beginner in jet flying.Friend recomended Bunshee.Have not put it togheter yetLets see if it will survive more than one flite...
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