RE: Emergency safety alert: FEJ big F-18F Superhornet
[quote]ORIGINAL: tamjets [quote]ORIGINAL: gunradd [quote]ORIGINAL: tamjets [quote]ORIGINAL: FLY EAGLE JET The F18 was shipped with directly drive on his model. If you want to change it to be mechanism system , you will need to change complete bulkhead former design. We do not recommend customer to change himself. Now, if you need complete   Stuff to repair and change, we can send stuffs
Posted on: 5/24/2013 10:33 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Emergency safety alert: FEJ big F-18F Superhornet
[quote]ORIGINAL: tamjets [quote]ORIGINAL: FLY EAGLE JET The F18 was shipped with directly drive on his model. If you want to change it to be mechanism system , you will need to change complete bulkhead former design. We do not recommend customer to change himself. Now, if you need complete   Stuff to repair and change, we can send stuffs to you by emailing us. Thanks [/quote] How is your direct linkage system was done? You had a photos of it. I like to see is that done right. [/quote] Tam here are a few pics of what they use now. They use a shaft driven from the servo directly into the elevator. This will put an insane load onto the servo topcase and bearing. Its a total joke and will cause the servo to wear out very fast. To make matters worse the servo gets installed from the backside pushing it even further from the flight control it self putting an even greater load onto it.
Posted on: 5/24/2013 9:47 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Emergency safety alert: FEJ big F-18F Superhornet
[quote]ORIGINAL: rbxbear44 Just a question to clarify...was this in fact, a HC Airframe? Thanks, Rex [/quote] Honey Comb
Posted on: 5/24/2013 8:03 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Emergency safety alert: FEJ big F-18F Superhornet
[quote]ORIGINAL: RCFlyerDan Guess that is why my 1/8 F-18 can do close to 200 mph, and you have seen it fly! Also why I own CARF or BVM jets. Carbon Fiber sure couldn't hurt, and better then doing nothing at all and flying a bad design. All they are doing is reducing the resale value of their own planes. [/quote] Yep your F18 is a rocket ship! That is the difference between a correctly made stab :) and a poorly made fly eagle stab.
Posted on: 5/24/2013 4:34 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Emergency safety alert: FEJ big F-18F Superhornet
Dan some Carbon Fiber cant fix a bad design with a bad pivot point. That kind of flutter will break anything. Its much more then strength involved here. Funny part is the newer ones they are making with that direct drive crap is even worse. Flyeagle cant keep a small 1/8 scale plane from exploding in flight let alone a 70 pound aircraft.
Posted on: 5/24/2013 4:27 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: New blog article: all-flying stabilizers part 1
Great info thnx Oli
Posted on: 5/24/2013 4:09 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Emergency safety alert: FEJ big F-18F Superhornet
Poor Luke :( Sorry for your loss. I have said from the start their is no way they built this airframe up and flew it 20 or so times hard and worked out all the bugs before selling it. Again we are the beta testers. They really need to just pick a few of their smaller airframes and make them right before going into these big birds.
Posted on: 5/23/2013 6:21 PM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Yellow F22 Build
George have fun playing with the VT! See you in Kentucky! Shaun that ARF wont last long!
Posted on: 5/22/2013 6:20 PM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: How to get a refund from Fly Eagle Jets?
Those lights on the tail are anti collision lights and are both red. Also they have formation lights molded into the inner part of the verticals and no lights go their. For the markings they installed the AA on the tails on the wrong sides so they are angled the wrong direction. They looks very bad. Also the formation light is way to thick on the tail. But I guess they only go for cartoon scale........ To their credit all the Chinese manufactures do this to a point. Why not spend a little more time and do it right. I mean its only good for a static model anyway if you fly it per their picture book instructions so might as well make it look better.
Posted on: 5/22/2013 9:57 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: My Maiden Flight: FEJ Viper M
Fly it hard for at least 50 flights then get back to us :)
Posted on: 5/22/2013 4:42 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: FEJ 6 months...
[quote]ORIGINAL: EDFJim Now over 7 months ...to replace something that I should not have to pay for and still waiting ...... [/quote] Jim I hope they don't ruin JOK for you. Now if you do get the stuff you will have a time crunch to get it done. Yet I am sure they will have a whole bunch of new planes at KJ to show off yet you cant get parts for your existing planes :(
Posted on: 5/22/2013 4:40 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: How to get a refund from Fly Eagle Jets?
[quote]ORIGINAL: EDFJim Over 6 months.. can not recomend FEJ [/quote] That sux Jim. Do you have something to fly at Kentucky this year?
Posted on: 5/21/2013 9:18 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Jets Over Kentucky 2013
[quote]ORIGINAL: essyou35 Are there spots I can just setup my own tent for free? [/quote] Yes plenty of room.
Posted on: 5/21/2013 6:51 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: need your advice ..... please..
At the very least find a fellow Jet modeler in your area and let them guide you some. You need help in person from someone that flies jets. If you do not it WILL crash.
Posted on: 5/21/2013 5:51 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Jets Over Kentucky 2013
A few porter potties for ladies only might be a good thing. By late Friday into Saturday it was tough for even us men to go lol. The mud pit in front of them didn't help. But I did notice allot of people bring their wives and they should get a ladies only porter pottie.
Posted on: 5/21/2013 4:04 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: How to get a refund from Fly Eagle Jets?
If you get the yellow F18 you will have a rock solid plane that will last you many years..... Get the flyeagle and it will look pretty but doubt it will last very long. Also the yellow is VERY scale and can go into scale contest and be static judged. The flyeagle well.... not so much lol I will say this the big flyeagle F18 is very impressive in person to see but I would rather have a scale plane that flies great and will last a long time.
Posted on: 5/20/2013 12:58 PM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Yellow F22 Build
Shaun I agree yellow pipes are fine with no thrust vectoring though. I do not believe the thrust vectoring pipe is fine. I am fairly certain I can burn another one up in 50 or so flights if I had another one. And the first one I burnt up with a 120 size engine now I have a 170. But it does not matter since yellow does not make the pipe anymore anyway. Its just my opinion and nothing more. Mine is almost back together aside from the elevator servos. Waiting on the new gear sets for the 8711s. Cant wait for Kentucky jets this year!
Posted on: 5/20/2013 10:58 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: KingTech Service Center
Eddie I am using Mobil jet II in a 170 and its doing fine. I read somewhere that the JetII is fine in these engines. We retired an aircraft that used jet II so I have a ton of it and don't want it to go to waist lol.
Posted on: 5/20/2013 5:47 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "KingTech Turbines International"
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RE: Xtreme F-16 1/6.75
[quote]ORIGINAL: patrnflyr Anyone else notice the F-22 sitting on the Tarmac? Is that possibly coming down the designer's pipe from Skymaster? I did a search and the dates are coming up 2006, etc. Maybe I just missed it. Will look around some more [/quote] That is a yellow F22 in the background.
Posted on: 5/17/2013 3:54 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Kudos Kingtech service!
[quote]ORIGINAL: Robrow Are there manufacturers that don't provide this level of service? Rob. [/quote] How about when my JC eagle seized at FLjets early in the week Barry walked down with a brand new K180 for me to borrow for the rest of the week so I was not grounded. I used it for many flights and had a great weekend then gave it back with no pressure at all!
Posted on: 5/16/2013 5:16 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Kudos Kingtech service!
Couldn't agree more with you Ali! Its nice landing with the engine running :)
Posted on: 5/16/2013 3:49 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Yellow F22 Build
[quote]ORIGINAL: Dieselman1220 I wish it was a vectoring pipe, then I'd take it. I'm having to much fun with the thrust vectoring now [/quote] Agreed Joe! Plane is not worth having IMO without the vectoring. Its a must have on this plane for sure. If something happened to my vectoring I would get Tams vectoring and incorporate that into making the nozzles move like the yellow does. If anyone is on the fence about getting the vectoring just get it. It helps so much at slow speeds with control and getting off on short runways alone is worth it. People are scared of it for some reason but when set up right all it does is help it fly better. I have even been thinking about re trimming knife edge flight with it on and then just leaving it on all the time. The only time I really don't have it on now is for long slow rolls and 4 point rolls. It lands better and takes off better with it on even though the yellow manual for it says to never use it for takeoff and landing.
Posted on: 5/15/2013 9:11 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Yellow F22 Build
Good luck with the sell Dave. Thats a very good price with the engine! I got to test out the new Tams Pipe! Worked great. Only problem I had was the plane was sticking to the runway. Checked the CG and it was to far fwd. The new lighter pipe combined with the small 8oz fuel tank just fwd of the main tanks shifted the CG to far fwd. It still flew great and got 6 flights on it back to back. Cant say enough good things about the plane! One thing also to note. The Tams pipe was smaller in Dia so installing it was very easy. It can be installed with the bellmouth already on. This makes dealing with the thrust vectoring a breeze. But this pipe probably would not work for engines bigger then a 120 size. Not sure what you guys with the bigger engines should do when your pipe needs to be replaced. I am sure Tam can figure something out.
Posted on: 9/18/2012 5:25 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Ocala Florida Event
Only a week away! Hope to get more jets to show!
Posted on: 9/9/2012 5:06 PM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: SUPER JET SOUTH 2012
I had some side work to do on a Piper Seneca this week that was going to pay for my gas to Superjets south... Well it never showed up and I just got word it had a hard landing in Texas and pushed the nose gear up into the windsheilds.. So no Superjets for me this year :( Was really looking forward to it. I will still try and see if I can find someone on the west coast of Florida that will car pull but it does not look good right now.
Posted on: 9/6/2012 12:57 PM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Yellow F22 Build
Got my new Pipe from Tam today! All I can say is WOW money well spent. The old Pipe had many flaws. For one it had a sharp edge inside at the split.(thats where it cracked) Another problem was the thrust vectoring fit over the inside pipe so the double wall was cut short and did not get air from the main pipe to suck out cooling air through the double wall. Tam made the entire pipe with smooth bends and made the pipe a little smaller so that the double wall can sit inside the thrust vectoring. He also made the double wall thicker at the back where it sits inside the nozzels. Very well done. Cant wait to get her out flying now! I also added a small 8oz center tank to help with the flame outs. I guess I am just thorwing the plane around to much :) Moved the UAT tank to the bottom of the fuselage also so its lower then the main tanks. First pic is the crappy yellow pipe. 2nd pic is the rear of the new Tam pipe.
Posted on: 8/27/2012 3:40 PM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Ocala Florida Event
Dave I should have my new pipe next week and I will be ready to go for the event! Cant wait. Would love to see more jets attend this year!
Posted on: 8/25/2012 5:14 PM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: SUPER JET SOUTH 2012
Anyone from the east coast of Flroida want to carpool? I need to cut the cost if I want to go :)
Posted on: 8/25/2012 8:06 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: TAM JETS
He just shipped my pipe out! Only took 2 weeks for him to build a total custom Bipipe for me. Great service. Thanks Tam!
Posted on: 8/24/2012 8:34 PM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: I'm still around folks.
Tam cant wait to see my new pipe! Should be a great improvement from the stock pipe. :)
Posted on: 8/21/2012 11:44 AM by Author "gunradd" in the forum "RC Jets"
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