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Old 03-20-2018, 01:50 PM
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Writing this message to see how many people out there own the Sparrow. Not a lot of videos online showing people Flyin them. I'm just curious how many people have them. I have mine built and flying right now on a Evo jet 160 and it flies amazing.
Its been a great jet for me and I love it! I have a Kingtech 120G2 in it and it pushes it very well. I will post another video soon from last weekend.

Check out this video from the Coachella jet jam


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Old 03-22-2018, 06:09 AM
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Looks good. I love my sparrow just having trouble slowing it down enough to land. When I come in for landing its nice and smooth it's just coming in too fast. Have to work on keeping the nose up and not letting it drop.
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Old 03-22-2018, 04:05 PM
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Looks good. I love my sparrow just having trouble slowing it down enough to land. When I come in for landing its nice and smooth it's just coming in too fast. Have to work on keeping the nose up and not letting it drop.
Hmm, where is your CG set? Also how much flap and crow are you running?

Mine slows down very well.
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Old 03-22-2018, 04:21 PM
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I have the CG and flap set per what Pacific Jets website recommends. I am not running any Crow. The jet slows down really good it's just my dumb thumbs and brain that is having trouble bringing the jet in slow. Like I said I come in fine and then I let the nose drop on Final causing the jet to speed up. Just have to learn the airframe and the jets flying characteristics to make my Landings better.
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Old 03-22-2018, 04:57 PM
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Copy that..
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Old 03-28-2018, 02:55 PM
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Add me to the list!
I ordered my Sparrow from Dirk a couple weeks ago and am so looking forward to it arriving!
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Old 03-28-2018, 03:32 PM
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That's awesome. What color scheme did you get.
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Old 03-28-2018, 06:18 PM
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Thanks,
I’m really excited about this Model! I went with the “Red Ribbons” scheme...
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Old 03-29-2018, 03:06 AM
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Cool. That's a good looking scheme. You should post pics of it when you get it and pics of you building it.
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Old 03-29-2018, 03:21 AM
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What size motor you putting in it.
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Old 03-29-2018, 04:08 AM
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I usually a kind of loosely structured build thread, as time permits...

Power will be a Merlin 140XBL
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Old 03-29-2018, 05:20 AM
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Let me know how the Merlin 140 is power-wise. my 160 seems like it's possibly too much power.
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...I have Just finished build for my SPARROW ... With the given CG ..I find it is very tail heavy ... With 3 battery at the battery bay ...It still need about 680g of weight to balance it . I weight the cg with the given wood pannel... Any owner of the SPARROW can give some advice ... Thank you ..
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.... I use this cg wood plate come with the SPARROW.... But it is very tail heavy ....Need extra 680g upfront to balance the jet ! with empty tank , no fuel.....
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No posts since May?Nice jet but hardly any flight video nybody flying this jet?
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Old 10-11-2018, 04:11 AM
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Lots of people flying the Sparrow, Are you looking for information? Can possibly help....
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Old 10-11-2018, 05:25 AM
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Lots of people flying the Sparrow, Are you looking for information? Can possibly help....
Thank you! Have not committed to buying one yet,i was hoping to see more customer photos of different schemes....I have only seen pics of the yamaha,honda repsol and the striped sport scheme.
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Anyone have any build photos of this bird. Finally getting around to building mine?
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What happened to this jet?
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Old 10-25-2019, 11:17 PM
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Global Jet Club is now distributing this model.

https://globaljet.club/collections/g...28016407117898

Cheers!
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Old 10-26-2019, 06:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Fackea68
What happened to this jet?

PacificRCjets parted ways with the manufacture of the sparrow due to poor building practices on a different model. Many other better flying sport jets on the market anyway.
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Old 10-26-2019, 09:14 AM
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Was this one of the models that were part of an ‘ownership of design’ discussions a while back?
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Old 10-26-2019, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by ltc
Was this one of the models that were part of an ‘ownership of design’ discussions a while back?
yes.
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Anyone have the specs on this jet?

CG
Flaps
added weight if needed Yada yada yada

Thanks
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