Nice landings! In the real F-4 we began our takeoff roll with full aft stick and when the a/c rotated we went forward on the stick. Not practical here.
I love the F-4's!! USAF vet here and even though I never worked them as a crew chief anytime one was around I'd always watch them. Something about this jet just screams "Fighter"
@@aerospacematt9147 135's mostly...EC/RC's at RAF Mildenhall then VC-135's and 137's at Andrews AFB...I worked on C-9's as well but only when I was assigned to the ISO hanger
WOW! Watching this..... with so smooth a flight... I could easily pictures the F-4s coming in and taking off at Udorn Royal Thai Airbase again.... took me back to 1969...sigh.
Ryan, upgrade your 8j to the Futaba 16 or 18sz, then create flight conditions called Normal and take off (part flaps) and Landing (full flaps), use separate on elevator trim (gives 3 different elevator trims on same trim switch) Then can adjust elevator trims as your flying, with flaps up, half flaps and full flaps down. It’s brilliant. Enjoyed the vid of the Phantom. Keith
Awesome jet n I love edfs but spending hundreds to get 3-4min is real sad. I wish someone could come up with a good edf n low kv or something that’s nit so power hungry
The 8S model I bought off you just arrived. woo hoo. I agree with your views on flying nose heavy first, worst case you have to add elevator trim. Tail heavy, worst case is a snap roll on takeoff. Keep up the good work. You need to upgrade your Futaba to an 18SZ or 18MZ and run telemetry. Beats guess work. Swap out the ESC with a Castle and get the S-Bus2 telemetry link. Add a Futaba GPS / Variometer and you have everything you need. total ESC data / rate of climb and decent, GPS speed and you can even add a temp sensor for the batteries if you are going to fly full mil power for a while. Also agree with previous comments on Futaba upgrade and the sue of local switches and the use of Flaperons. I will be giving them a try. Im still working on combining the variometer and GPS speeds mixed with flight conditions to get a stall warning on landing approaches. Looks like I can get that to work on my new Graupner MZ 32. This plane is going to look interesting side by side with my LX F-4 Navy scheme. Its running 2 JP all metal 70mm fans.
I’m glad to see that they come “Naked”. I want to make it look like the one I worked on in the 80’s in Texas. I didn’t want to have to strip everything off first.
I remember seeing F4s up close back in the 70s..and they are big airplanes...And the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels were Awesome...the sound was thundering!! Watch "Threshold: the BlueAngel Story" on a flatscreen ... The bigger the better!!!
Keep in mind that futaba has weird end points by default. What most radios call +/- 100 is +/- 151 on futaba. In short, by default, futaba uses about two thirds of the radio resolution.
Hey, everyone has to learn some time, lol. I'll tell you though, if the FMS 1400mm series A6M Zeros come back in stock get yourself one of them... Although it's a warbird, it has such an airframe that it would be more manageable to learn to fly than trying to fly a P-51 for the first time and it can fly slower without stalling like other planes with more aggressive characteristics. Then you can get into the edfs that are faster and more challenging. Also getting yourself a nice flight simulator for your pc or laptop will be worth it's weight in gold, practice those take offs and landing approaches.
You know those plane tracking platform tripods that fpv pilots use for their fpv equipment? I bet that would work for a camera system...some tweaking or the Arduino code and you’d be able to get zoom to work perfectly too! All automatically! A perfectly framed shot all the time, every time! Could be done relatively cheap too. All with diy if you have the know-how. Can I have a job?
Great flyin Ryan as always!! Are you using full flaps or takeoff flaps in beginning of video? You never said. Just want to clarify. I get the up elevator for nose down effect, but not sure which flap setting you are going with for takeoff and landing, thx.
Talk about bringing the Mail. !!!!! You definitely have a hell of a skill level.... Watching you kick that bird’s a** into submission was just awesome Ryan...great...truly great ..... you have certainly took me to school fling it like you did .... ☮️~~I’m Out... 👍🏻😎
Grate to hear that you have that problem worked out, I was just as bummed out as you that afternoon at the rosewood field, I was very impressed there with the performance of the model on 8s, It's next "to get list" take care, Craig Beaven Frankfort In.
All my EDF's are battery munching hogs for power. The packs need to be HIGH discharge rate and good batteries. The main thing that can make a jet a dog to fly, is poor batteries.
You probably saw it, but they just came out with a Navy paint scheme. I just found out they have an F/G model nose cone. The plan is to do a Wild Weasel, but I if you search for Freewing Phantoms on RU-vid, you should be able to see the Navy examples.
I really like admiral batteries. I wish there were some that fit more of my surface RCs. I have a pair for my boat and use others in a Losi SBR. They are very good on keeping a balance and just the overall quality.
what about Australia, this is another one i would love for the collection, awesome looking and sounding model, beautiful silhouette in that sky guys great flight and information big salute to you guys out at motion RC
So happy that MRC added the Grey version. Saved me alot of work :-) I can't wait to start my build next week (hopefully). My problem has always been which scheme to pick. There are too many cool ones to choose from. I finally settled on the Marine Red Devils. Another fantastic winner from Freewing and MRC :-)
