F117 Stealth fighter, where to find?
12-09-2006, 12:25 PM
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F117 Stealth fighter, where to find?
Does anyone know of a @45" wingspan ducted fan F 117 stealth out there? Ive seen the Walkera one, but I dont know where to find it without paying a bizillion dollars on shipping. If anyone knows of a solution for that one too, let me know.
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RE: F117 Stealth fighter, where to find?
bertella plans in Italy.....
they don't have a website,
but you could size their plan to any scale you want.
scratch building is very rewarding
as you can make things as you want, instead of redoing poor engineering.
they don't have a website,
but you could size their plan to any scale you want.
scratch building is very rewarding
as you can make things as you want, instead of redoing poor engineering.
12-17-2006, 11:37 AM
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RE: F117 Stealth fighter, where to find?
12-19-2006, 12:52 AM
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RE: F117 Stealth fighter, where to find?
Hey Joe. Do you have one of these? If so, did you do the brushless upgrade? I was thinking about doing that upgrade, but Im interested in seeing how well it flies with the brushless motors before I do.
12-19-2006, 08:28 AM
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RE: F117 Stealth fighter, where to find?
I have one of these with two Walkera 380m brushless motors, two Tower Pro 30A Escs, Electron 6 rx and two 3s 2100 20C lipos. It flys great on brushless. I suppose I could say that at 40% throttle on brushless is about the same as full throttle on brushed. With the supplied brushed motors, they float around and do fly, but there's no margin of extra power to get you out of trouble if needed. Besides, opening it up again to change motors is something you don't want to do unless you engineer the feature into the kit. Go brushless and you'll be happy. It will move along nicely, just don't expect blistering speed. Maybe 50 mph, but looks pretty scale. I don't have any vids yet though.
12-19-2006, 09:06 AM
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RE: F117 Stealth fighter, where to find?
Hey Joe,
Thanks for the info, that will definetely help. Do you have the batteries wired in parallel to both speed controls, or are they seperate, one battery per speed control? Thanks again.
Thanks for the info, that will definetely help. Do you have the batteries wired in parallel to both speed controls, or are they seperate, one battery per speed control? Thanks again.
12-19-2006, 12:51 PM
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RE: F117 Stealth fighter, where to find?
I run the batteries in parallel in the cockpit ( you have to stagger them to make them fit) , they Y into large main power cables that run to the rear. The twin escs tap main power at the rear, I run extensions and a Y to the rx.
