I did this on a smaller scale/ 64mm. F-15 e-flight and it gave a considerable improved thrust factor.. however needed to stay in the throttle where before it would dead stick in..but am happy with the extra push!! No real loss in battery life. Was worth the modifications!!
HI Mate, greetings from Oz. FYI when you cut / grind out the foam you said you need to get it as clean / smooth as possible, that's not strictly correct. One thing I learned from racing my Porsche was that expensive racing / competition plenums are actually dimpled. So Smooth bad, Dimpled good. You can google why a golfball has dimples and it will give you the theory. I guess you could dimple the air ducts etc with a hot dimple iron. I might try and make one up. Not sure about just a rough surface could be better than smooth, maybe. Enjoy your videos. I bought the aluminium plates and the wooden tray extension plus nose gear reenforcement from Dunstan. I will have to have a look at the area you suggest to plate. I have 2 new F-14s in the box. Going to build them as a wing pair and fly formation with my nephew. Only have access to grass fields. Cheers
Just found you ,,, thanks for this info ,, have had my tomcat on the stand for over a year now waiting on mods and upgrades,, the battery bay mod I did as soon as I put her together ,, now it looks like I have a bit more work to do , but it’s worth it . The main thing I would like to have is enough performance to do everything the tomcat can under 3/4 throttle, and leave the rest for when the wings are swept to give it that “maverick is supersonic,be there in 30 seconds “ kinda feel ,, as I’ve heard it does not have any change in speeds with wings swept or extended in stock form
I appreciate that but I give credit to the others that made them and did the calculations. I only changed the nozzles because I changed the motor and fan assy s. I am sure Freewing had it right with theres. Aloha is a smart dude. Thanks for watching.
I have a 3D print and found that lowering the infill Wil lighten the part without losing the structural integrity.... and for these you really don't need much infill. 3-10% infill will work great. I designed and printed a dummy radial engine, canopy slides, and wheels... working on landing gear covers for my F6F Hellcat....
Jeti for the win.... Just upgraded from the 16 to the 24 , couldn't be happier! What Jeti ESC's would you use? I purchased the 9 Blade in runners for mine. :-)
The down thumb is not working! I like your mix for bring the flaps up fast, i need to do that on mine. the tail throw is fine on mine. I need to do a nose gear mod on mine though. I love you nozzle mod a lot too! great work on all your mods and mixes!
Thanks for watching. I am not sure you are going to be able to. I use a 10 channel receiver to make it happen and split out the ailerons from the blue box. You can do some mixes using using the custom mixes although in your radio. You have to figure out which features are more important to you
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@@JustPlaneCrazy ok thx. I got the fsm motors. But i needed to trim a bit to get then to fit. I think the freewing versions just slot in. Its become my Christmas project. Thanks for all the info…
Great video, thank you! Very useful for F14 owners 😀. Rich from RCInformer also designed some reenforcement plates for this plane. Keep up the great work.
By opening up the nozzle you are giving the plane more thrust but slowing the exit speed which in turn possibly slow the plane down a bit. From what I have seen with fms fans they like to be in the 90-95% FSA in order to really be good all around. When you go below 90% you get more speed with a minor reduction in static thrust. Should be interesting to see how this flies! It looks way mkre realistic thats for sure!!
