“Although the weather has not been cooperating as far as a maiden flight, The kit itself was well worth the money. Was a little disappointed in the instructions on all the wiring(or lack of)but the boys at Motion got me straight and on my way. Thank you for the help. Once in the right direction things went well and I look forward to the maiden flight”
“This is my 4th freewing edf., and I took my time .in setting this plane up , and All I can say is Wow.. it flies so awesome ( tip1 : no ailerons when wing is swept) , and everything else will be just be exciting... landing is a breeze ( tip2 : make sure CG is on the money). it does not like nose heavy on slow speeds. >> had an issue with the elevator servos.. But motion and there Top Gun Customer service..has always backed me up...”
“Well a couple weeks ago I finally had the chance to maiden my Freewing F-14 Tomcat and everything up to the Flight was a piece of cake. The only hard part about the build is setting up the radio to make the plane as true to scale as I could. Once that was done I was waiting on the weather and here in MN its been either windy, rainy or I was too busy on the days that was nice enough to go and fly it. Anyhow, when I did get the chance to maiden the Tomcat, everything went to plan. It took off very easy with the power the twin 80mm fan units gave it. It flew flawlessly!!! I am a newbie to flying EDF jets of any kind and had a friend that fly's turbine jet spot for me. I didn't do anything too crazy, I just wanted to get it up and fly straight and level to get used to it but I did a couple rolls and WOW, it handled excellent. Now to the final approach and landing. Hehe, I know better that when you bring any plane in that you fly it in, well I forgot all about that when I was on final approach and cut the throttle to early prior to the runway and still about 5 ft. above the ground and that's where it all went bad. First, the Tomcat is very mushy when at slow speeds which I knew about and which it did on final and then it tip stalled and I caught it but it was too late and I was too low and slow when it did to do anything about it since it was flying straight at me and there was a chain link fence that I tried to clear and it almost did but it caught the bottom and the left main landing gear and flipped upside down onto the ground. Did enough damage, (but not a total loss) that I have to either glue things back together or order a couple new parts. My winter project. Well I learned a lesson in flying EDF jets, and I will not do the same thing twice!!! It is an awesome plane and it will be back in the air later. I highly recommend this plane!!! For the price, how well it was built and how easy it is to fly (just remember to fly it all the way in on landing) it's well worth the money!!!”
“Yes, it'll sure fly & land off a decent grass field. I really couldn't be more impressed with what this jet'll do. It' s präsente is as awesome in the air as it is on the ground.Important - if you set this jet up as Chris @ RCGEEK does on his web site & YouTube you 'll be doing hand stands...seriously. One thing you'll get from it is full span flaps. This will give you a shockingly low landing speed. There's a video on his website that shows the F-14 landing with the full span flaps. Check it out. It's a Wow to be sure.The other major benefit is the wings back Mode. He's got it so when back there's no Interference between the ailerons & elevator, and it goes from high rates wings forward to low rates wings back.,this makes it as easy to fly wings back as it is wings forward.Setting the F-14 like this yielded a 1st flight, w/ CG per instructions , with no trim required.An easy modification was shown by Chris that allowed him to run 2 Zippy 5800 6s's, I am using Zippy 6200 Compact. I get, wrong it out pretty good, right about 5 minute flights with them.If anyone has a DX9,18,18 MK2, OR 18QQ I can send you a link to copy this set up onto an SD card that'll make it really easy. I'm at dobent4@ yahoo.com.Doug”
“This is a very nice and complete detailed swept wing design just like real jet all parts work as they should It can fly off short grass as well as hard surface would recomend for jet flyers”
