MarkNovack
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I took out my trusty Madness to loosen up my frozen thumbs and JP took out his new Syn903D that I have worked on for a couple of weeks.
The setup is:
YS110FZ
Futaba 9550 servos on ailerons, elevators, rudder and a 3102 mini on throttle.
Hatori pipe and header
880mah Ni-Mh
All throws were done per CPLR's setup tips as given on the PDF file I posted about two posts before this one.
In a word, Omigod. Fabulous. Monstrous. Wow. Incredible. Awesome. All that and a bag of chips.
First of all, the motor pulls this thing skywards like a rocket. For those wondering, the YS91 will be fine. The 110 is outrageous. After about a minutes worth of running on the ground, we took it into the air. First flight was made without bellypan to allow extra cooling.
The first flight started off with a short takeoff run, wheels up, pulledhrottle to idle, hit the verge of a stall, then firewalled it and rolled upwards about 200 feet at perhaps 2-2.5 rolls per second. No better way to test fly, is there???
Knife edge is effortless, and I do mean effortless. JP pulled it around and did the prettiest knife-edge slip almost to the deck, gave a little throttle and she just soared on by on the high alpha knife at about 20mph. Next pass was from upwind, and just past center he pulled a medium wall into a series of quick torque rolls. This thing torque rolls easier than anyhing I have seen in it's category. He did not try any stationary hovering, but I can see that that will be easy too. Tail slide, piece of cake. Stall turns...more rudder than you even imagine. I can't wait to get mine together an try the famed pinwheel (an often talk about manuever but I have only seen it done once, and that was Steve Stricker during the 98' TOC). Knife edge loops, and another, and another, and another. He did four in a row, so predictable that the fourth ended only about 10 feet off of the ground, and the wings where absolutely perpendicular to the ground. Although it was pertty windy, I did not really see any need to start playing with aileron differential. The rolls were nicely axial left and right (we did fill the aileron gaps with clear Oracover). After the big manuevers, he settled into some elevators, harrier rolls, a little precision stuff, some really fine looking FAI style spins. This thing 3Ds on rails.
Respected flyers and competitors, in my best and respectful words of advice (knowing the company I share in this forum especially), be patient, save the extra few bucks that this runs over some Chinese mass produced airplane, pass up some of the impulse spending, and place your order for this thing. The waiting list right now (it will not get shorter in the forseable future) is probably about 90 or 100 days after making a deposit. This is not any kind of advertising hype. Nobody is going to all of a sudden crank up the assembly lines and make a fortune by selling 1000 copies per month. They will be produced only in numbers that will allow absolute attention to detail. But if you wait and get one of these, believe me, the smile on you face as you rip through the most complex of 3D and precision manuevers will last a heck of a lot longer than the amount of time you waited to get the airplane. I place great confidence in saying that you will not get a better ARF airplane in this catagory until you climb into the realm of Majestics and the genre that follwed in it's footsteps for lots more money than the Synergy 90 3D costs.
Oh, mine arrived today!!! That would make it about 90 days.
I'm also going to splurge for the Camcorder. This airplane has got to have some videos posted onto the web.
Ben, you are going to make a splash at the JR challenge with it.
Enjoy,
Mark
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Is ZN planning to offer a 140 composite version of the Synergy 3D? That would be cool! 