E-Flite BAE Hawk maiden flight report-good!
04-23-2010 | 08:31 PM
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E-Flite BAE Hawk maiden flight report-good!
E-Flite BAE Hawk maiden flight report-good!
First flight was perfect as it can get I guess. Lots of power with the 4s stock set up. Straight down the runway. Nice level take off and then after sufficient air speed and nice climb vertical to altitude.
Far too much aileron control even on the recommended low rate settings. Even with 40 % expo so I'll be cutting that back down some more.
Elevator excellent. Over all excellent control. Half power was still fast enough. She glides easily so the drag on the airframe seems low. Recommended most forward CG I was and 1/8 ahead of and I wouldn't change a thing.
Timer goes off time to land. The only other guy flying has ditched his P-51 on the side of the runway and crosses to get it. He yells "on the runway." I say hurry up please. I throttle to about 1/3 power and circle the field. He's there forever it seems. Finally he clears and at about 200 ft. altitude the ESC oscillates my power as a warning of low batt and then cuts off. Flame out.
I'm way out there but to my surprise she responds well to energy management. I trade altitude for airspeed and glide nose down nearly on the deck for what seems like a long time. I make it side ways to the runway and find I still have enough head speed to turn and line up center on the yellow line and make a perfect slightly flared landing and roll to a stop. A big sigh of relief. If that had not happened I'd never know that she had such a glide ratio and that all the reports of it being a tip stalling meany were over rated IMHO. Great plane!
Steve
First flight was perfect as it can get I guess. Lots of power with the 4s stock set up. Straight down the runway. Nice level take off and then after sufficient air speed and nice climb vertical to altitude.
Far too much aileron control even on the recommended low rate settings. Even with 40 % expo so I'll be cutting that back down some more.
Elevator excellent. Over all excellent control. Half power was still fast enough. She glides easily so the drag on the airframe seems low. Recommended most forward CG I was and 1/8 ahead of and I wouldn't change a thing.
Timer goes off time to land. The only other guy flying has ditched his P-51 on the side of the runway and crosses to get it. He yells "on the runway." I say hurry up please. I throttle to about 1/3 power and circle the field. He's there forever it seems. Finally he clears and at about 200 ft. altitude the ESC oscillates my power as a warning of low batt and then cuts off. Flame out.
I'm way out there but to my surprise she responds well to energy management. I trade altitude for airspeed and glide nose down nearly on the deck for what seems like a long time. I make it side ways to the runway and find I still have enough head speed to turn and line up center on the yellow line and make a perfect slightly flared landing and roll to a stop. A big sigh of relief. If that had not happened I'd never know that she had such a glide ratio and that all the reports of it being a tip stalling meany were over rated IMHO. Great plane!
Steve
06-07-2010 | 11:30 AM
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RE: E-Flite BAE Hawk maiden flight report-good!
Well I have to say that my experience of the E-Flite Hawk was very disappointing. With the undercarriage fitted and a 3s set up it would not get off our long, well cut and rolled grass strip. Hand launching required an Olympic Javelin throw and bungy launching impossible with the wheels fitted. It was tippy and dropped like a stone when power was off with a very steep glide. It was very difficult to get the elevators to return to center and the recommended e-flite aileron servos stripped the gears after 2 flights. On the 3rd flight the motor seized up when the ball race broke up and burned out. (you have to use the e-flite motor and fan set up de to the size of the fan and the length of the motor wires.
With a 4s set up it got off the grass but tip stalled on the first turn ending up in a cartwheel. Also I could never get rid of radio interference from the motor/speed controller on 35 megs. After a lay up over the winter I decided to give it one last go before selling it on. I fitted a 2.4gh set up and a 3s pack to set up the new radio, open the throttle and the fan exploded. I then found out from the e-flite web site that this is a known fault and they supplied a new fan. Buyers beware if you are buying a fan unit for this or the new Sabre make sure it has a "blue spot" on the box as this means it is the new reinforced fan. Yesterday I gave the model away for free to a club member as I could not, in all honesty sell it.
All I can think is that this, like other massed produced items, is dependent on the manufacturers quality control and I just got a "wrongun". I am told that the new E-Flite Sabre is much better but I will think long and hard before buying one.
With a 4s set up it got off the grass but tip stalled on the first turn ending up in a cartwheel. Also I could never get rid of radio interference from the motor/speed controller on 35 megs. After a lay up over the winter I decided to give it one last go before selling it on. I fitted a 2.4gh set up and a 3s pack to set up the new radio, open the throttle and the fan exploded. I then found out from the e-flite web site that this is a known fault and they supplied a new fan. Buyers beware if you are buying a fan unit for this or the new Sabre make sure it has a "blue spot" on the box as this means it is the new reinforced fan. Yesterday I gave the model away for free to a club member as I could not, in all honesty sell it.
All I can think is that this, like other massed produced items, is dependent on the manufacturers quality control and I just got a "wrongun". I am told that the new E-Flite Sabre is much better but I will think long and hard before buying one.
