Picked the model up from club member Mark Vandervelden late last year. He decided he wasn’t going to get round to putting it together . Although being similar to my F15 it was thought to be an easier airframe to handle due to a wider track undercarriage, ailerons and flaps which I don’t have on the F15. Mark did the install of fuel and air lines and also installed the fuel tanks and some fuselage mounted servos. I completed the install of all wing and fin mounted servos and surfaces ,extension leads ,power box ,turbine and all related equipment.
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Maiden flight after fitting an INAV flight controller. Initial flight to trim aircraft and check power demands and video signal. Now that it is trimmed the Flight Controller can now be fine tuned. Once this is done the aircraft can be made to fly level (Horizon) or maintain altitude (AltHold). Or circle round a point (Loiter) and fly back to where it took off RTL (Return to Launch) where it will again circle around this point.
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Warbirds a plenty! Jumping up a level from the good number of EDF Panthers, MIG15s and Sabres we now have from Club member Jon Tappin new addition to his expanding fleet of warbirds now he has finished IMAC for his year. This Me262 is from Freewing. later versons have more camouflage and numbered Yellow 7.
With exceptionally fair weather for England in October Jon maidened this EPO molded warbird successfully - would not thought any less! It had a nice harmonised whine from the fan units and runs off just one lipo pack.
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Jet Legend 1/4 scale Yak 130, controlled by Jeti Centralbox400, JR servos, twin JetCat 180, LMA ( Large Model Association ) cleared. Weight 24kg dry. Jiri bought this popular aircraft second hand from another local modeller. It has had a number of great flights in the latter part of this year, 2020.
This flight was filmed in September 2020. Jiri has, as with all his jets past and present he takes his time with final set ups and configuration.
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Jon bought the airframe 2nd hand, it had previously been registered through the LMA scheme at 21.5kg, but he wanted to try to get it under 20kg as lighter always flies better and it avoided the complication of going through the LMA inspection scheme. A friend who also has one, suggested Jon does a mod to move the engine forward from it’s standard position behind the centre of gravity, to in line with it, moving it forward around 300mm.
This turned out to be a lot of work, but resulted in removing over 500g of lead from the nose to get it balanced. Final finished weight was now 19.8kg. Following the test flights on the 31st August in the film Jon decided to add another 100g of lead as it was a little too tail heavy, so the model is now at 19.9kg.
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