Hobbyking BD5 for Jetcat P20
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Most of them sold out because the manufacturer actually went out of business. Some may come back when HK finds some other place to copy them.
Some fly OK. Some fly very poorly. Often they have bad airfoils and wing design and very bad slow speed handling.
But either way few if any are actually flown at all before being released to the public.
Few complete many flights at all.
It's like Fly Eagle Jets, but smaller.
It's also hard to get a good reading because HobbyKing pays people to shill their models, and they have many reps who just tell how everything is just awesome.
Have you ever seen a video of the HK Staff flying any of these 90mm jets? Never.
THey just released a new one. Nobody has flown that model. Ever. But it's for sale.
Some fly OK. Some fly very poorly. Often they have bad airfoils and wing design and very bad slow speed handling.
But either way few if any are actually flown at all before being released to the public.
Few complete many flights at all.
It's like Fly Eagle Jets, but smaller.
It's also hard to get a good reading because HobbyKing pays people to shill their models, and they have many reps who just tell how everything is just awesome.
Have you ever seen a video of the HK Staff flying any of these 90mm jets? Never.
THey just released a new one. Nobody has flown that model. Ever. But it's for sale.
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RE: Hobbyking BD5 for Jetcat P20
Yeh true no videos seen have hobby king upset you? lets hope it flys well it was just a plane i looked and was thinking a p20 was perfect for.
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You would think a company as big as Hobby King would maybe build and fly just one of each plane before releasing them to the public, but no. Cheap stuff, poor quality planes. If you look on the other RCforum, you can see hundreds of posts with complaints, these planes always have major issues, and it could be very dangerous if you put a turbine into one and the wings come off, so be very careful.
Everything Ihave ever bought from HobbyKing has been a problem in one way or another, and customer service is non existent, once they have your money, you are done, so no more HKfor me, it has been a real waste of money.
Everything Ihave ever bought from HobbyKing has been a problem in one way or another, and customer service is non existent, once they have your money, you are done, so no more HKfor me, it has been a real waste of money.
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The wings will not come off ther on permenantly! Servos are good aswel iv changed half of the stuff inside the plane its more stronger then it could be even stronger then the habu! What planes did you experiance problems with from hobby king? Was the bd5 one of them?
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So the Hobbyking 90 mm jets are no good. I beg to differ
90 mm Mig 15 with P20
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MIfnaHiEl8[/youtube]
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RE: Hobbyking BD5 for Jetcat P20
And here is the Hawk. Looks like they fly ok to me. Ok problem with the retracts but still landed ok
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVsxu9Fz6UA[/youtube]
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They seem to fly very well check mine out http://youtu.be/C3Fg-x5oyY0 flew well!
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RE: Hobbyking BD5 for Jetcat P20
Bigplums, Dennis Norman, you are like the British Mr. DJ. You don't fly. You just promote. I bought a set of landing gear for a Tornado from HobbyKing a few years ago. I bought them because you said here how great they were. They were pure garbage, bent on the first landing and went into the trash. Afterwords, I realized you never flew them. You don't really fly much at all. But you get paid to promote hobbyking, so you are all over the place posting about how great their stuff is.
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RE: Hobbyking BD5 for Jetcat P20
ORIGINAL: PhilYabelli
Bigplums, Dennis Norman, you are like the British Mr. DJ. You don't fly. You just promote. I bought a set of landing gear for a Tornado from HobbyKing a few years ago. I bought them because you said here how great they were. They were pure garbage, bent on the first landing and went into the trash. Afterwords, I realized you never flew them. You don't really fly much at all. But you get paid to promote hobbyking, so you are all over the place posting about how great their stuff is.
Bigplums, Dennis Norman, you are like the British Mr. DJ. You don't fly. You just promote. I bought a set of landing gear for a Tornado from HobbyKing a few years ago. I bought them because you said here how great they were. They were pure garbage, bent on the first landing and went into the trash. Afterwords, I realized you never flew them. You don't really fly much at all. But you get paid to promote hobbyking, so you are all over the place posting about how great their stuff is.
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RE: Hobbyking BD5 for Jetcat P20
No, you barely fly at all, doubt you flew today at all, you aren't flying any of these junk HK90mm jets you promote so much, and you get paid to push junk products from HobbyKing. And you have been thrown off this website under a dozen different names. Don't come back here, people know now what you are up to, Dennis Norman. An English Mr. DJ.
You would think after the FlyEagleJets debacle that people will be more careful about letting these shills come on here and promote stuff they have not flown or tested.
You would think after the FlyEagleJets debacle that people will be more careful about letting these shills come on here and promote stuff they have not flown or tested.
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RE: Hobbyking BD5 for Jetcat P20
The hobby king bd5 flew very well faster then my habu and looked good in the air attached small video of it flying
http://youtu.be/5m6HEvv6b5M
http://youtu.be/5m6HEvv6b5M
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I finally made a maiden on my HK BD-5. Wow. First I think that is is as much weight as The little P20 can handle it seemed on the edge. I made it safely around the pattern and Landed because it seemed slightly tail heavy. and it felt heavy. Ill have to fly it again before I make judgement. Still seemed hot on final. and glided 1/2 mile.
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My one flew very well it was faster then my habu with the p20" unfortunatly mine crashed on its 7th flight due to pilot error i stalled it on the turn slowed it down to much and pitched the nose up it has very small wings i did notice it was abit unstable flying at slow' speeds the bd5 is a fast jet with a p20 and can eat up the sky in seconds with a p20 however good for pilots that like fast stuff but not for those who like slow scale flying if you build one keep it light very light im sure it wil fly alot better i added stuff like retracts pilots in cockpit, lights this just added the weight up" altho nice model
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Yep. Very fast It went around the patch so fast I don't remember much about the flight characteristic. No retracts. may have saved it and Prolly slower than yours. but upper 170's Next flight will have a GPS data recorder.
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