FB 1/7th F15 scale build
03-15-2016, 03:56 AM
#353
Thanks Dantley!!
Jamie was great meeting you in person!
Jeff always good to see you my friend!
Taking the F15 to the military base MacDill AFB this weekend for a static display at an airshow then next week will start taking it apart for a post event inspection then start getting ready for TopGun!
Jamie was great meeting you in person!
Jeff always good to see you my friend!
Taking the F15 to the military base MacDill AFB this weekend for a static display at an airshow then next week will start taking it apart for a post event inspection then start getting ready for TopGun!
03-15-2016, 07:03 AM
#355
She has a K210 in it. It flies good and scale but not like I like to fly with all the ordnance hanging on it. Waiting on options from Kingtech factory. Might be going with something smaller then a 300. A 300 might be a little much for this plane. Might have a a few new sizes to pick from on some new prototypes coming out from the factory that are bigger then the 210 and smaller then the 300. Cant really say much else about that lol.
03-15-2016, 07:15 AM
#356
She has a K210 in it. It flies good and scale but not like I like to fly with all the ordnance hanging on it. Waiting on options from Kingtech factory. Might be going with something smaller then a 300. A 300 might be a little much for this plane. Might have a a few new sizes to pick from on some new prototypes coming out from the factory that are bigger then the 210 and smaller then the 300. Cant really say much else about that lol.
03-16-2016, 06:57 AM
#360
Already started working on the bomb drop. I added more nose weight on them and did some trimming to make sure they release on time. When this works right its an automatic 10 on the maneuver in TopgGun. Also now that I am getting a handle on how this plane preforms I am starting to put together my scale routine for TopGun. Still doing some tweaking on the maneuvers but almost have them set. From now on every flight will be my scale TG routine until TG is over.
I will need to order some spare parts for this bird for when doing events. So far I can see I need to make stronger axles, spare set of the little part on top that rotates the strut and a spare set of wheel bearings also.
I bent the nose gear pin before FLjets and for a fix I cut a quarter inch craftsman extension and used that as a pin. Harden steel lol its not going to bend now. For those that have this plane another spot to look at is the front of the nose gear retract. It has a threaded pin that keeps the gear from going backwards when down and locked. This pin has very short screws installed and they will strip out and cause the strut to bend backwards then the scale drag link will snap off the bulkhead. To fix this I used the longer bolts used for the ordnance and cut them to exact lengths so that they thread in a long ways but do not bottom out on each other. This worked great for the rest of FLjets.
03-20-2016, 04:29 PM
#361
Work continues....
Picked up a new aircylinder for the airbrake. The stock one is very weak and does not come up all the way in flight. Also its not long enough and does not go to the scale height.
After I got a call from Joe on how he modified his I did the same. New actuator came from dream works and is 7/16 and 4 inches long. Had to open the hole up some and also make a new mounting point on the airbrake. Tested this last weekend and snaps up perfect in flight.
Picked up a new aircylinder for the airbrake. The stock one is very weak and does not come up all the way in flight. Also its not long enough and does not go to the scale height.
After I got a call from Joe on how he modified his I did the same. New actuator came from dream works and is 7/16 and 4 inches long. Had to open the hole up some and also make a new mounting point on the airbrake. Tested this last weekend and snaps up perfect in flight.
05-02-2016, 06:02 AM
#362
Just got back fron TopGun. 2016! I took home 1st place in sportsman class!
I started this road 1 year ago after TopGun last year. I decided to sell my F22 and get a better plane for competition flying. After selling the F22 I put the F15E on order. Crashed it on my maiden flight with a fuel issue and rebuilt it. Then had the entire landing gear rip out with a wheel bearing falling apart. Had to deal with all kinds of other gear issues but finally the week before TopGun I had most of the problems ironed out. I put her through her paces and she flew great. It was a long road and could not be any happier. Love the way this plane flies!
I tried all kinds of things for the bomb drop. Had lots of problems finding something that would not break on impact yet be heavy enough not to damage the plane when I dropped them. Tried many different combos and weights on the bombs. Even had one bomb put a hole in the wing when it flew up. I was just about to give up on the bomb drop then while I was drinking water out of my water bottle I thought this would make a good bomb. So the night before TopGun began I took 2 empty water bottles and sanded them and painted them like bombs along with fishing weights in the nose of them. Turns out they work PERFECT! I use the real bombs for static but the water bottles for dropping. They are painted olive drab.
Also on the drive to TopGun a shelf broke loose from my trailer carrying all my fuel and tore a hole into the nose of the fuselage. I had to do a quick field repair on that to get me by for the week. Now I will redo the entire area.
I started this road 1 year ago after TopGun last year. I decided to sell my F22 and get a better plane for competition flying. After selling the F22 I put the F15E on order. Crashed it on my maiden flight with a fuel issue and rebuilt it. Then had the entire landing gear rip out with a wheel bearing falling apart. Had to deal with all kinds of other gear issues but finally the week before TopGun I had most of the problems ironed out. I put her through her paces and she flew great. It was a long road and could not be any happier. Love the way this plane flies!
I tried all kinds of things for the bomb drop. Had lots of problems finding something that would not break on impact yet be heavy enough not to damage the plane when I dropped them. Tried many different combos and weights on the bombs. Even had one bomb put a hole in the wing when it flew up. I was just about to give up on the bomb drop then while I was drinking water out of my water bottle I thought this would make a good bomb. So the night before TopGun began I took 2 empty water bottles and sanded them and painted them like bombs along with fishing weights in the nose of them. Turns out they work PERFECT! I use the real bombs for static but the water bottles for dropping. They are painted olive drab.
Also on the drive to TopGun a shelf broke loose from my trailer carrying all my fuel and tore a hole into the nose of the fuselage. I had to do a quick field repair on that to get me by for the week. Now I will redo the entire area.
05-02-2016, 09:23 AM
#367
Some have made the gear non rotating and then they work pretty good. But it loosing some scale detail on the drag brace to make it do that and other things also. Really dont want to do all that. But the little parts that control toe in and toe out wear out in just a few flights and then they just kind of float around.
05-02-2016, 09:35 PM
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of course retracts are rotating.
And you'll see on top of the gear-leg a special machined part in aluminum.
Main legs are same lenght as original.
of course retracts are rotating.
And you'll see on top of the gear-leg a special machined part in aluminum.
Main legs are same lenght as original.
05-03-2016, 04:56 AM
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Friend of me made it with a CNC-Machine.
Sorry I sold the jet - drawings dosen't exist more, can't help !
If you like I'm able to send you more pics via e-mail.
Pls. give me your mail-address.
Sorry I sold the jet - drawings dosen't exist more, can't help !
If you like I'm able to send you more pics via e-mail.
Pls. give me your mail-address.
05-03-2016, 05:04 AM
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