Breaking out the old stuff. P-51 Harbor Freight

[@mikecarbone828]

I didn’t know that Harbor Freight offered a P-51 Mustang. Thanks for sharing! Please have an excellent and awesome day! ☀️✨✈️

[@markhyde43]

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

[@jordancoleman2402]

I bought one when they first went on sale, think I paid $75 and had no idea what I was doing. That was 11 years ago and many many RC airplanes ago and I still have no idea what I'm doing but I'm having fun doing it

[@markhyde43]

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.

[@shanesdiy]

Nice! I remember seeing those at HF just never picked one up, looks like a pretty good flier. I have an old Parkzone P-51 I've been planning to restore or "resto-mod".

[@markhyde43]

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.

[@CaptainJohn]

Still have mine hanging on the wall! Rebuilt it to fly again but it flew terribly… waiting to fly it again someday

[@markhyde43]

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

[@calvarycustoms6681]

Very nice! Sounds incredibly scale.

[@markhyde43]

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

[@andystoybox1723]

I was always afraid of buying one of these lol .. I didn’t know how to fly yet .. 😂😂 I always had my eyes on it when ever I would go to harbor freight ..

[@markhyde43]

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.

[@n9amiwavelengthradio]

I have a much bigger motor in mine it will climb vert out of sight 3s 1300. I hv been trying to break the wings off for years still holds up. The Galloping Ghost. ........

[@MackMoore-q2n]

Does it not have throttle control it looked like it was flat out the whole time.

[@markhyde43]

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.