wedgewing
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From: cleveland ,
OH, USA
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I flew the planes today in about 36 degree weather with about 10 mph winds for the maidens (fun).
Both fly very well even in the windy conditions if you call 10 mph windy, it seems like it is always that speed here.
for what it is worth I have the 260 3D using the recommended 12 x 6E, while the GP 330s specs a 10 x 7E. I think for the next flight I am going to place an 11 x 7E on the GP 330s to see if it helps as it seemed to me that the 260 3D was floating around and tracking very well at a lot lower rpm than the GP 330s , but the 12 x 6E was taking a nicer gulp of air with it so I think the going with the 11 x 7E will help.
both airplanes made their landing approaches at walking speed which was very cool and if I was landing on something that did not look like a prairie dog community I might have walked away with the nylon screws in my landing gear in tact. reviews say that the 330s needs a powered landing but in this case today with the wind i used almost idle prop and very little trim and both planes have a very smooth sink rate and may need a little distance for landing (sort of like a floating mini pulse)
I had the control horns on the 330s set on their lower settings as I intend to have my son and I fly it through the buddy box. even with the lower rates, the ailerons are super responsive, so don't think you have to go with big throws to make the 330s roll. The 260 3D rolls very well too. Both are nice planes
word of advice. GP/Electrifly uses a 3 mm x 8 mm screw (x 4) to hold their landing gear on with the same size blind nut. if you are flying any E Flite stuff they use 4-40 threaded blind nuts, and you can pick up the nylon flat headed screws at Ace hardware for $0.15 a piece and keep the plane in one piece following a rough landing. I cannot find 3 mm x 8 mm nylon flat headed screws so I changed the blind nuts to the 4-40 on the 330s ( a real pain to do the ones closest to the outside of the fuse). very cold today and wet grass so despite the fact that I almost VTOLd the landing one of the 330s gears popped with no body damage. If they would get torn off they would do the fuselage some nice damage so consider the modification to allow for nylon screws for the gear.
once the grass levels out a bit and is cut, I should not have any issues with the wheels. nice thing about the MPI wheels is that they don't look large. the wheels that come with the 330s are too small and spongy if you are going to fly off of anything more than a parking lot.
If we don't get a bunch of snow I will have them back up again
Happy New Year everyone!
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), and in the winter you don't have trouble starting the engine....just keep your batteries warm.