flyinGraham

Hi All,

The extra's are now here and ready to go and as I believe Dan (freestyle-rc) has sold out of all of his 1st shipment of 58" extras!!!

I am hopefully receiving mine tomorrow, it is the red and blue version and is going to be all electric powered!!

Here is my setup:

Torque Revolution Motor and Airboss 80A speed Controller running on an APC-E 15x8 prop
Flight Power Evo Lite 5S1P 3700mAh batteries
Hitec HS5245 servos on ailerons and elevator and a Hitec HS225MG on rudder
Hitec Electron 6 receiver

I am hoping for an all up weight of around 5.5lbs and it should be ballistic on this with 10minutes plus flying time from the batteries.

As I believe the model goes together really easily and can be ready to flying within a day, tedious work such as the cutting of the trim on the tail plane to mate to the fuz is done etc etc

I will be providing a build thread and lots of pics and videos very soon.

any questions fire away,

cheers

Graham

flyinGraham

some pics from the build so far, this model is soo easy to build and the quality is awesome:

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flyinGraham

Well after another few hours of doing the little otha bits shes ready to go, made up with it what an absolute pleasure it is to build, the quality is just awesome, everything goes where it should and with 100% accuracy.

The bad news is I gotta wait until the weekend to fly it now! but as soon as i do I will get some vids and pics together.

final pics of the build:

flyinGraham

some solo shots and some compairson shot compared with the vanquish:

dancer 3d

All done. Just got to get me old man to cut some graphics for it. Got this thing on the scales and the AUW is.............. 5lbs 10oz!!!!!!!! That's a good weight. Going to get it hooked up to the watt meter later and see what this set up pulls

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flyinGraham

Well WOW is the only word that can describe this plane, it is simply awesome, so smooth and an pleasure to fly, no bad vices and performs the book, I love it!!!

What you've all been waiting for, pics from the maiden and following flights:

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Video of flights 2 and 3 combined from today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xc4Q9ZCxE8

enjoy!

nitro wing

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Another must have
Good stuff,nice vid.
Now you have to post the 50cc vid too

flyinGraham

will do when she arrives, the 50CC extra is due in november so I will get a build thread going on that in time as well mate, same colour scheme as my electric one!

dancer 3d

Here's a video of me flying mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jac04jYjGe8

flyinGraham

some other pics from last weekend:

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the EF video:

http://flightpass.higherplaneproduct...omo2a_W640.wmv

xtraflyr

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Hey Guys,
Great videos!!! As I was watching the Higherplanes video,they said there is goin to be a glow conversion for this. You guys hear anything about that? I was thinking a little 80 4 stroke.. I know this is a electric thread but this the first one I saw with the new Extra..

Cya..
Frank

flyinGraham

yep there are many 58" extras that have a glow engine in and with great results, no videos as of yet sorry.

The ideal engine for this model (glow) is the saito 82 fourstroke, this is by far giving the best results, but I know of people using YS63's and west 50 2 stroke engines all with great results.

The glow version is identical to the electric version, only it has strengthening pieces around the firewall etc and comes with a tank.

Have a look here, the instruction manuals can also be found here for both the electric and glow version:

http://www.freestyle-rc.co.uk/_shop/...8Extra300.aspx

xtraflyr

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Hey Graham,

Thanks alot for the info. How do you guys get everything before Chris over at Extreme Flight?? Can I use the same servos that the electric version uses?

Thanks again,
Frank

dancer 3d

Video of a satio 82 powered 58'' extra! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMrl6OYRgx0

xtraflyr

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Hey!!! You guys are the best!!

Thanks,
Frank

flyinGraham

lol I don't know ho it happened this time, but I'm not complaining, especially as my 88" extra is due this week as well!!

Yep the servos will do for the electric and glow version mate!

flyinGraham

Some more video of my extra from the weekend, enjoy:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SZDVCmTb-iQ

diamondave

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okay i am about to order one myself, cant wait, i have the 45 extra and really enjoy it and imagine this one should be more stable and fly better cause of size at very least.....any important info before ordering??

flyinGraham

Nope, not that I canthink of, it is another one of EF's brilliant planes, you will be able to put it together in a matter of hours and the flying characteristics are simply superb mate, you'll love it!

SOme more pics of mine from the weekend:

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more:

diamondave

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looks awesome for sure, may call later this week