SCALECRAFT

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Hi All

Although I am doing some home expansion and have not bought much for the last 6 months, I couldn't pass on this little electric foam 109G6 from Parkzone.

Thanks to Scott at Airland Hobbies for the head ups and great service.

I painted the black Tulip red to identify mine from my fellow 109 buddies when we fly together. Not a perfect replica, but that was not the idea.

Pretty nice for what it is. BNF version, 15 minutes and your ready to go if you have charged batts, does come with 3s/1800lipo. You just need a 2.4 transmitter.

Steve

jeffk464

yup saw that one myself. Watched the flight video online, what is you opinion on how it flies?

Rebel Flyer

How long have you had it? Ours just came in today...

Have you flown it yet?

Rebel

t_burley

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Steve

the 109 looks great. I know Evan down in Texas ordered one
as well. they look pretty decent.

SCALECRAFT

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Just 2 days ago.

Thanks Todd. Can't take credit for this one. Its like 15 minutes of "snap together" pretty much.

Have yet to fly it. I did see Scott fly his, he can fly very well, so the plane flew well. On the ground, remember its a 109, one may need to get used to the gear.

109 scale flyers know what I mean, but I don't expect any problems. Its light.

Steve

NoFlaps

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I bought this birds and love it !!! Flies with more authority in my opinion than the trojan, but diffreently as that plane is more like a trainer. This on is as tricky as can be expected on the ground, both for TO and landing. I prefer flying mine w/o the landing gear.

check6ii

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I have only flown mine with the gear, and have the scraped wing tips to prove it I have added flaps but havnt flown it yet with the flaps. Does it hand launch easily? Because it looks sooooo much better in the air w/o the gear!

glazier808

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Got mine a couple weeks ago. Flys great, forgiving but scale like.(you'll need to know how to use your rudder) As as stated above, it is VERY scale like on the ground. On take off gently advance your throttle and build up speed so your rudder has something to work with... and landings...keep your speed up on landings(likes to come in rather hot=nice scale roll out) and be gentle with the rudder....I ordered the flaps kit, but have not recieved it yet...oh yeah, I would suggest installing some wingtip skids....you'll thank yourself later.

I have not tried flying it without the gear, but I bet it would be nice....I've been thinking of putting in some micro retracts in mine, but have been having so much fun flying it, I have not had the time to think about doing it lol.

pic with my Ta- 152

sweetpea01

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BF-109 not an ME-109

glazier808

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actually both would be correct....even the germans durring the war had conflicting paperwork listing both.

Not that ParkZone listed it that way though if that's what you ment.

Casey

SCALECRAFT

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Well I flew mine after around 7 months of not flying anything at all.

Since I have a few scale 109s flying, I expected the ground challenges. Not anything out of the ordinary FOR a 109 on take off. Too much throttle before good airspeed will pull the model to the left hard.

Practice, practice, practice.

A scale like 109 is a bit challenging. But i like a good challenge.

As a first flight, if you fly directly into bit of a head wind, the model will "whether vain' and hold its line easier.

Its a winner.

Steve

glazier808

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I would agree, this is a keeper! ParkZone did a nice one here.

Casey

Asanders

Here we go again LOL

SCALECRAFT

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It would be "a ME 109", "an" would used before a word that starts with a vowel. Kinda like BF or ME. Depends what year of the war it was.



Silly is it not?

Steve

Helijet

Just had to reply to this one. My father was a mechanic during the war and frequently worked on the 109. He always referred to them as the ME 109. As a sidenote....he had the " honor " of refueling and cleaning out the cockpit of Adolf Galland's personal bird ONCE. Dad could not believe the amount of cigar butts and crap that was in that cockpit. Talk about being able to chew bubble gum and.......


Cheers
D. Wichmann

David Eichstedt

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For reference, we went with "Bf" specifically because we knew everyone would be satisfied. Nobody would complain about "Bf," but if we went with "Me," there would be a small but vocal number of people out there who would complain and create controversy.

Evil_Merlin

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Glazer is VERY much correct its either.


Both are correct with the 109.

I have a document from RLM from 1941 that has both Bf 109 and Me 109 mentioned in the same document. Even the RLM couldn't keep it straight. And it really didn't much matter the year.


the shift from Bf to Me DID happen, but didn't happen all that well with the 109, in late July of 1938.


Note that almost all of the data plates inside the 109's had Bf 109 marked on them, not Me 109, with the exception of some that Erla FlgWrk built.

quist

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I had my BF 109 roll in from 100' up[&o] Left aileron servo went to full deflection and I couldn't counter steer it. I hate cheap servos. Now I have to wait for a new fuse to come into stock. The plane looks great in the air.

Evil_Merlin

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quist, yeah the same exact thing happened to my T-28. Servo went out, plane went down.

Hadda wait 3 weeks for a replacement wing to get in stock...

check6ii

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I flew the 109 with flaps-BIG difference! Doesnt land as hot, more scale landings. It was fun before flaps-now its a blast. Very docile, yet still has some go. I love it-no gas or glow mess to deal with, cheaper (by far) than jetA or Kerosene. Think my next jet will be EDF. Electric is pretty darn cool IMO

glazier808

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I'd have to agree, electrics are kinda fun...

glazier808

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just got a call that my flaps kit came in...so I'm off!


post more later...


Casey


BTW Steve(Scalecraft), I still want to get around to talking with you more about your composites that you have...I just have my plate full at the moment...

glazier808

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ok simple enough. Hooked it into the gear switch, as I'm using the dx6. Wish it had 3 position.

cant wait to fly it.

Casey

Steve Collins

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Anyone else have a problem with the fom tires being very out-of-round? The plastic wheels seem to spin tru but the tire itself is way out of shape. Makes for extremely bumpy taxiing and a very bumpy takeoff roll.

glazier808

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I've noticed that if the plane is left sitting on a hard surface for long, you will see that the tires kinda mush out abit. (they are just foam) They do go back to shape, but it can take a min to do so, depending on the temperature. I put a rag under each tire and it seems to help.

Casey