@Hi43155 I'll have to look and see what I have. I one time I had a blue spinner spare and maybe a prop hub. I'll have to dig around when I get home.

@davidgerlach1132 I have the E-Flite 80mm F-16 T-bird. And also the 70mm. I am discovering that flying the 70mm is much easier and far less stressful. There are less things to go wrong and it is more forgiving. I prefer flying it over the 80mm for those reasons alone. Sure the gear aren't nearly as detailed. I wish there was an equivalent F-18 Blue Angel (70mm) like that. That would be perfect. In the end. A $500- $600 jet is way more complicated and if you miss one thing on a preflight... it could be disastrous. I'm on my 2nd Freewing Blue Angel now for that very reason.... to many functions and unforgiving. $380-$400 70mm flies great and is less stressful in the air.

@@richardb8317 I have been thinking about that. But I would have to give up the afterburner channel to do that. Only got 8 channels

I can't be sure. I have a satellite antenna receiver in there to help ensure that I always have reception to the receiver. Whether that is effective or not, I don't know. But with an expensive model, i thought, why not? Also i don't know if you are running you're throttle through the blue control box along with the flight controls. My throttle signal cable runs straight from ESC to receiver. But no worries. I've crashed my plane twice and now have to use my backup plane still new in the box. Not gonna repair the original one three times.

Thank goodness for that too, or I'd never have one. Although I'm an aircraft mechanic by trade, when it comes to remote control planes as a hobby.... assembly is not part of the fun. It's a necessary means to an end. I don't like the build process. I could never do old school balsa builds.

😆 that's funny... throw it towards the trash can... I don't mind keeping it in there for the lights. I Probably should put the gear on a Y and direct to the receiver because I can't afford to have that not work. There's no sequencing I guess because the doors are mechanical.

@@markhyde43 The box is simply an unnecessary potential, and likely from my experience, failure point. Simply don't need it. Even if there were sequenced gear doors, a sequencer is ten dollars, and a failure in it, it isn't very likely to cut power to the entire servo train like this box can.

I'm planning to add tailerons with full flaps as well. Not quite flying season yet here. A few more weeks or a month.

I'll have to recheck it. I have damaged it since this video and have replaced the fuselage and gear. Haven't Flown it yet this year due to weather and season. But i will rebalance it and do it again. I do know that the CG was set much farther aft than the called out CG. I have a local friend with the same plane started near his CG, which fly's great for him. I can't explain that nose over at take off. And it's been a minute since it's flown. I'll have to rewatch some of these videos and check my transmitter to see what's dialed in for trims. My sense I probably did have to trim down a lot and i believe i re set my elevator neutral all ready.... But I still had the dip after takeoff even after that. We'll see with this new fuselage, gear and elevators what i does.

@markhyde43 Yes, your neutral elevator position is likely incorrect and causing the nose to drop IF your cg is 95mm aft or more. Cheers!

I know. The challenge with these larger EDFs, which are very new to me, is that they take more space to turn because of their size.. AND... everyone's yelling... "don't let it get slow. It will stall!!" So it ends up farther away than I would otherwise do with smaller EDF's.

@@markhyde43 Yes i understand that part for sure but you can fly slower with a lower setting of take off flaps as well to do slower speeds and tighter turns

@looneytunes47 I hope to get it dialed in to where I can keep it in closer and tighter confidently like I can the 70mm.

@@markhyde43 Yes Jets a real challenge fo sure but so rewarding when you do manage the fly with control and confidence.

No. That's the one thing I never think of when I'm in the moment. I love having Safe there just in case... but I also tend to get preoccupied trying to save the plane that I never remember to use safe. Kind of weird huh?

I have the same plane and I don't use flaps I find the f16 don't need it. I land mine in high alfa and lands nice and slow that way. I would suggest you to try with about the flaps. You will also have more control on the landings. Give it practice and it won't use much runway at all. For takeoff and landings. The plane doesn't stall very easily either

@williamlane6374 yeah. I may go that route. I'm not one to mess with original stock setups if I don't have to. I did with the FW F-18 because I had blue box issues and I wanted more precise adjustments on my stabs individual sub trims to get them matched. But I hope I don't have to on my next one

@markhyde43 yup I bypassed my FW f18's blue box also

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@@carlo8336I don't believe that I put in an elevator/ flap mix. I'd have to double check my settings though when I get home... but I don't think so.

I loved that plane. It came a bit beat up in the box. if I remember right. It had large dents from being crushed in places and obvious attempts repairs to foam and paint under the nose. It also had the older gear and that was long after the- new ones were coming out with the upgraded gear retracts. It was probably older stock being that the blue nose was very hard to find. I ended up wrecking that one after losing orientation against the sun. I had also lost my original Red Tail which came in better condition than this. That one I got bit cocky on those low passes over the grass strip. Wing was to far over and caught the tail grass and it cartwheeled all the way down the runway throwing pieces everywhere. I love the FMS 1450 though so much that now I am flying another Red Tail and have a 2nd new one in the box..... just in case I get to cocky with this again. But I've tamed down my low level flying a lot now. I keep it above the taller grass now, even over the runway lol.

Ha ha. Thanks. Yeah, well ESC programming is well above my head. I've limited my in depth playing around to at most balancing an EDF fan. Even that is pushing it for me at my level. I'll have to look more into that kind of stuff (ESC timing and Low voltage cut off) and pay more attention to the sound anomalies like the surging.

Now that I have figured out how to adjust those settings with the transmitter... my current ESC LVC is set (default) to 3.4 and the timing is defaulted to 15. I know you said to set timing to 5-7. Mine will go to 5. Do I really need to disable lvc or reduce it a little lower to say 3.2?

@@markhyde43 lowering it makes it so that you can get the plane back if there is ever an issue. 2.8-3.2v per cell is a good setting because most come back to land well before that. But with go arounds having it disabled makes it so you may hurt a battery but you wont kill your plane.

@@gooniac33 point taken

Thanks. I ended up having to replace the fuselage and gear last October... maybe September...after I tried to do a dirty roll just on the last pass before landing it. That's the bad thing about having flight modes with different rates. If you forget to switch before doing something crazy, bad things can happen. Was probably a bit too slow as well. I like to be as close to scale as possible, but you can't give up too much speed if doing dirty rolls. It's all good now though. New fuselage and its back to looking good again. On top of that, I have a second new one in the box (newer version with the reverse ESC) just in case. You know? I'm flattered that you watched this. I've seen most of your videos going all the way back to the 64mm days. That was some good stuff and so is your current content. I have a lot of videos from late summer and fall that I haven't even posted yet. But that groove is coming back around and the uploading bug is starting to bite. Thanks for the two comments.

@@markhyde43 that is the exact reason why I dont use rates. I fly the plane with one rate and expo to suit my flying style. I am subbed now and will be sure to watch more!

@@gooniac33 thanks. Much appreciated

It's lighter than others of the same model who put on no bounce wheels and after burner kits. Smarter battery is heavier than this Lectron Pro.

@@markhyde43 I just mean that it is smart to get rid of the weight.

No. I am not a 50 year old kid. I'll take it as a compliment though.... I am a 60 year old kid!!!

Yep. Pain in the butt to apply but looks really slick.

It's not a panic switch... but if you switch from normal gyro stabilizing mode to what is equivalent to Safe Mode (like on a Spektrum AS3X receiver)... it will self level when you let go of the sticks (sticks centered). So if your flying in manual mode (no gyro) or in stabilized mode (gyro on to counter the wind) and you lose orientation or lose it in the sun... you can just flip the gyro switch to safe (auto level I guess) and let go of the control sticks and it will go to the straight and level that you pe set it to. So your gyro switch is in effect... your panic switch if you use it that way

@@markhyde43 Have you tried it? You know...like getting it in some goofy twisted orientation, flipping the auto-level switch, and then letting go of the sticks...and it really did level out and fly straight pretty quickly?

@@SteveGergetz I've tested it and it does work. You do have to make sure the plane is in the atitude you you want it to level at when you do the initial set up. Mine sometimes goes to a very shallow bank or turn depending on how the plane is trimmed. It's hard to pre-set a perfect level that flies straight without any slight variance in the air. But it will save the plane in those circumstances. But for me? Unfortunately, when I've gotten in a pickle, I usually don't get to the safe stitch until it's too late. I always forget about it and do what comes instinctively.... try to fly out of the situation hoping to get lucky. That often doesn't work and I tell myself in hindsight...... Man. I should have threw the safe switch.. you don't think about in the moment.

@@markhyde43 Man...I know exactly what you're talking about. Been there myself as well.

I'll check what i have written down when I get home. It's still very fluid and I may adjust a bit more but I'll tell you what they are at the moment.

ok aspettto , grazie@@markhyde43

@@markhyde43 ok I'll wait, thanks

I set it up close to the manual. Some to what another friend told me who has the grey version. I set the Elevators to 46mm-47mm at 100% travel distance end to end Ailerons... couldn't get the same travel on both sides... so LH aileron was 25mm up, 23mm down RH aileron was 30mm up, 23mm down Rudder: LH... 33mm outboard throw & 25mm inboard throw RH... 30mm outboard throw & 25mm onboard throw. In my servo settings.. I bumped the aileron servo travel up to 120 because I wasn't getting the manual called out travel distance. Then I set my rates up as flight modes.... Speed, cruise and landing. My aileron Low rates (speed mode) are at 70% rate.... 50% expo Mid rates...(cruise mode) at at 80% with 50% expo. High rates...(landing mode) at 100% with 30% expo. Elevators are... low rate (speed mode) 75%with 50% expo. Mid rates ( cruise mode) are at 80% and 50% expo High rates (landing mode) are at 90% and 40% expo Rudder are at low rates (speed mode) 80% Mid rates 100% and 25%expo High rates (lending mode) 100% with 10%. Now I will change this a bit. I tried to do the blue angel dirty roll with the gear down and at about 25 feet high. Wouldn't roll fast enough and it stalled and pancakes into the ground. Repaired it with a new fuselage and new landing gear..... thus the reason I bought the second one new in the box as a future backup of I wreck this one again. Sp do not try an aileron roll with the gear down unless you are very high and know that you are in high rates. I think I was still in cruise mode at the time (mid rates). I may have to set it up differently so that my rates go to high wherever I lower the gear. It's too much to keep track of. So beware. Anyway. With these rates.... it flys very scale in mid rates at cruise and high speed. You just have to be conscious of where your rates are at all times and all configurations.

@@markhyde43 gentilissimo grazie infinite

POV?

The town itself took several weeks to a month..just for the basic layout. I refined it a few times over the years, cleaning it up, tweaking and adding a few things. This particular carnival is already deleted. It was 4 years ago. I place a new carnival set up here for each season whenever I decide to do one. The map (town) and lot are saved as a game sandbox park layout. I just add the festival and carnival on it whenever I feel like putting it there.

@@markhyde43 I have theam park tycoon 3 on my iPhone you don’t get as much flat rides 🥲

You should do another video about this but when it’s updated 😂

Mine stays shelved most of the time. I break it out once every couple of years just to get back to something simple.

Ditto. 8 years ago for me. I know o said 7 in the video, but it was actually 8 I think. I also have a lot of plants now and I've managed to crash 3 still this summer. But I intend to repair them all though.

Well that was logical. Flying one of these as your first plane as most RC pilots would say is... to be disastrous. But I did and that's why this one looks the way it does now. It's not gentle hard to fly. I definitely learned how to repair planes with this. But I also learned how to fly well quicker as well with it.

The parkzone was the the- choice one if you already had the rc knowledge and a radio...I think. This HF model was for the rc newbie who didn't know how or where to get the traditional rc planes, while the HF P-51 was right there... in the store...on the shelf in front of them. That model made us hungry for the more well known rc models.

Well thanks. It's a weak channel comparatively.

@@markhyde43 I like what I see, shorts and music is the key 😂

Awe. I can't stand those shorts. I really only post full flights because it's an easy video album stored Away for me to recall later. A cheap storage for videos flight logs. That's why you never hear me say .. please like and subscribe. That drives me crazy as well. I figure if they want to they will without my soliciting. I have done several with music, but the music started annoying me on later paybacks. So now if I do music. It's really faded in the background so one can hear the flying and the surrounding area background as well.

@@markhyde43 yes if you have flight sound and conversations I try to keep the sound, sometimes it's low and boring or too windy and a little music is calming.. just throwing that out there, I like your content, not complaining.

They did for many years back in the day. You could find them in most any HF store.

It usually operates between 2/3 to full throttle. It seems to have a very short power range... so I generally keep it at the higher end . I'm used to much faster models than this and this can fly up to 7 minutes at near full throttle.

Probably because it has a prop gearbox. That's what most of the sound is.

Last time I saw one at HF was about 4 years ago I think. They were nice and inexpensive. But to up grade them with the 2.4 GHz system it ended up costing about a much in the end as the better name brand P-51 models of similar size like Flightline. There are more it now of that size and they all fly better than this one. But I'm very partial to these. Like you said. Kind a nostalgic and it's a relic. I do have one in the box that I never assembled. Guess I thought I was going to go through them and would need more backups lol.

Keep an eye on market place, a guy was selling on here on Wisconsin for 50 bucks last week but unfortunately on the other side of the state 😒

Yeah. They are pretty easy to change on the 64mms. The E-flte/FMS variants.

Some of us aren't fortunate enough to have one handy, so we have to wear a hat cam. You can't see what it's seeing while it's on your head.

Thanks. Mines getting a little repair done to it. But it is my Best landing EDF jet.