txshan130

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Henry,

You rock! Ordered on Tues morning, here on Fri morning...that's great customer service. Oh and you answered all 5 of my phone calls too..

Love the blue Navy scheme...there will be some jealous Tornado owners out there for sure.

Can't post a pic from my phone but will do so later.

Regards,
Brian

jlmaviation

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Can someone post a picture of the blue navy version?

737Driver

Does anyone have a spare carbon fiber control horn they aren't going to use? I messed one up, so I'm short one. Thanks!

Tom

txshan130

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Blue Navy scheme...

Newskin78

Yea I bought one of those two. I had to have one. My son is in love with how great the Tornado Flies. This weekend we maidened our new V3 and it flew great quality is so awesome now. I think Henry finnally got it right.

jonkoppisch

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That's sharp!

john491

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I got mine two weeks ago and had it assembled in about twelve hours. I tried to do the assembly as close to the manuel as possible, no initial embelishments, although a few have crept in. I have trailing link struts so I had to relieve the wells a little to accomadate the swept location at the rear of the wells. I had to also relieve a small space for the link springs, both very minimal.

I am using a P-60SE on the supplied 5deg mount, Sidewinder retracts and Prolink trailing link struts from Dreamworks, BVM wheels and brakes, Jr 11X transmitter and a JR 921 receiver using all 9 channels, i.e. two elev,two flap,ail,rudder, ret, brake, thr. Servos are a mixture of what I had on hand, 225 MG's in the booms, and standard ones elsewhere.
I just managed the recommended CG at 12- 3/4"with the batteries next to the fuel tank, and nothing in the nose and coming in at 15.5 pounds.

I maidened the plane yesterday and had a really exciting flight. The takeoff was in 175 feet with no flaps and a good smooth right pattern fly out and proceeded to check flight charactistrics for a few minutes. When I decided to do a gear pass I needed to reverse the pattern I had been flying and proceeded to make a large right hand turn at about 3/4 throttle. I noticed I was coming up on a DO NOT CROSS line in the turn and tightened up the turn and the plane high speed stalled and started to head straight down in a spin. I throttled back to minimize the damage and to my surprise regained control about three feet off the ground. For a few seconds it hovered like I had thrust vectoring, then as the nose came down I was able to fly it out. I did another pass around the field and came in on a nearly perfect landing. Talk about adreneline!!

Moral is; Use the factory recommended throws on the elevator at least. I usually have extra throw on my surfaces, and while extra on rudders and ailerons isn't too bad, on the elevator it could cost the plane. I had been using a little over an inch of throw instead of the recommended 3/4" and when I pulled full up to tighten my turn it caused the stall. On landing I put the elevator at the recommended 3/4".

I flew it again today and had a virtually perfect flight and an effortless and perfect landing. The plane is a joy to fly.

I flew it in basic blue and yellow today as I have yet to receive the decal set, but still drew comments from everyone on how good it looks. No pictures yet as she is still undressed.

John

Woketman

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I agree with Jon, that thing is GORGEOUS!!!

Kenrico

Im liking that blue navy alot !!

737Driver

Anyone have a spare carbon fiber control horns (1) that they don't need?

Thanks,

Tom

BaldEagel

I think you need to ask Henry according to everyone on here he is only on the other end of the phone.

Mike

737Driver

Thanks Mike for watching the thread. I thought that maybe one of my fellow modelers might have a spare laying around. Henry is good about answering the phone and PM's and emails, thought I would try others first.

sweetpea01

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Ok fellows and Henry....I've tried to read through this 100page + thread but I have a few questions.

1. Can I get an unpainted jet or at least uncovered wings?
2. If NO to above, can I still get a blue white version that I can personally change to Air Force!
3. I have some struts and wheels already from a falcon 120 build I never finished. Not sure if they fit can't remember where I got them but it may have been Dreamworks. If they don't fit how much are the gear and will the wheels/brakes from the other gear fit?
4. I have the Rabbit 90 already with ZERO TIME on it. (that stinks!)...looks like that will work, how much is the slanted mount?

Thanks

Newskin78

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Backplate

Hey Guys,
Any one know where I can get some Instrument decals for thr Tornado cockpit.
Thanks
Dave.

Xairflyer

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Just print out your own and stick it on

There are lots of pics available online, I use sticky back photopaper, but you can print on ordinary paper and stick it on with glue.

here is one example I have used, I just crop it down to suit shape of the panel.

sweetpea01

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Where you referring to me? I don't recognize that area code. email or PM would probably be better as I can't call from work long distance weekdays very easily.

[email protected]
Sam

Heliman4213

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Got my second Tornado today. I love the Bright blue and yellow even more than my black and yellow one. The nice thing is after finding out the things on the first one I can take my time and build all the changes into this one. Henry as always was on the ball I cant believe it was here already without delay. I have a favorite helicopter that I will always have and I will always have a Tornado if they are available. It flies great has no bad habbits. People who have trouble are those who do things you cant do with any high performance model like yank on the elevator at low throttle in a base leg turn. No plane of performance can do that. I am loving flying this and am mastering the truesix to eight second slow roll. Looks so cool from on the deck down the runway. Cant waitfor myfirst scale jet the giant F-15 powered by the Jet Central Mammoth. It will make my Tornado look a little small.Thanks Henry see youat Florida Jets.

jonkoppisch

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Wow, taking me longer than that. I must be using a different manual

I'm stuck waiting on a nose gear from springair. Hard telling how long it will take to get it []

Has anyone noticed how similar this is to a kangaroo? I bet it could be modded pretty easily to get rid of the booms.

BaldEagel

Been done already to make it EDF, but the wing area is much smaller than a kangaroo, the flying characteristics would be much worse than you think, if you want confirmation check out the Falcon 120 thread where the guy just flew it twice.

Mike

jonkoppisch

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You're probably right. You made me curious so I grabbed my rookie wing which should be the same as a roo and laid it on the tornado.

outflying3d

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Is it possible to use the stock motor mount to mount a k-100g and fod guard without needing to hack away big time at the back of the fuse. It seems like the mount already sits to low to fit the 100g well. Does anyone have photos they could post of their k-80 or K-100 using the stock mount. Has anyone used the mounts available from dreamworks ?

Modellbau USA

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Please have a look at how the correct way the engine should be mounted on the Tornado using the stock mount.


ALSO GUYS I HAVE STOCK OF RETRACTS STRUTS WHEELS AND BRAKES IN NOW. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE TORNADO V3 PACKAGE IS ONLY SOLD THROUGH US AND IS EXCLUSIVLY MADE FOR US.

TUMBLER

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He was asking about mounting with the fod though. That requires doing some more dremeling. Not a big deal in my opinion. I fly off grass and find a ton of crap stuck to the front of my fod screen, so for me it was worth carving up the fuse a bit.

Heliman4213

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Can you send a few pictures of what you cut to put on your FOD sceen? Also what engine did you use? I built a home made FOD screen attached to the fuse.
Thanks