Freewing F35 70mm Crash and Burn Review. 

Ho man, what a shame but good for you persisting and fixing the plane again and again, can't ask more from you! Thumbs up for sharing! Best regards!

I am so sorry seeing what happened to you here! I recommend people use 40% Dual-Rates for Ailerons. I was yelling don't fly it with that much throw bro!!!! I hope you get it figured out from here until now with this beautiful RC Jet!

Bro, oh my god, your patience, is beyond saint-like. I watched after the first crash, okay that happens, then a second, and then THREE CRASHES before even finishing a flight... that's ... I'd have probably rage quit the hobby for a month after that if it was me, ngl.

I have to admire your perseverance. I also have this model and fly off a similar grass strip. The problem is getting up enough speed which the condition of the grass won't let you do, this results in the aircraft stalling. I found the only way round this was to wait for a strong enough head wind so as to give enough lift. This worked great for me and also helped when landing.

Well that just put a line through this for our rough ruff field, great video, Jeff in LA USA

That field has more pot holes than chicago has shootings. Fire the field hand.

I read some comments and people have already told you what I think. That being said I have never seen a jet get off on a hand launch when the guy tossing has his fingers hooked on the back end! It is a no no to do. Allways throws the nose up into a stall or down into the ground. Really need to grip near the cg but behind the cg. It should hand launch bo problem if its thrust is more than its weight. I'm guessing your f35 dosnt have a good place to grip for hand launch!

Sorry to see it didn’t work out, I think it would’ve worked out if you had a runway and I’ve seen you fly before and you can fly good.

I know the frustration and agony of crashing a new plane..I really admire you keeping your cool and a level head throughout this ordeal with this jet. I just found your channel and subbed..hello from Toledo, OR

I also have crashed a new jet. The F 15 eagle, and on the very same day, my twin BushMule. My finger hit the Safe off by mistake on the F 15, and the Battery fell out on the BushMule pulling up to drop a parachute man. Destroyed them both beyond repair. I didn't think your crash would be on your first take off tho, caught me by surprise. OUCH. It hurts for a bit, then we just to move on. I also put my Freewing F22 into the ground on a hand toss. I have since put an AS3X receiver in it, and now it does great on a hand toss. Started flying in Jan. 2014 the hobby is now in my DNA, but I still feel bad if I crash one. I tell people, crashing is just part of the sport, and to buy stock in Hot Glue! 😁 You're really good at putting them back together tho. I'm thinking 40% expo on Jets. I put 30% expo on everything, but Jets need a bit more. With that said, that field is not smooth enough for a jet with small gear. Most of my planes have bush wheels, or can take off on water or grass, and I hand toss the rest.

I’ve had the same problem with my F35 I’ve only flew mine once and tried many times. I just can’t get it to fly off the grass Fields’s so it sits in my museum room of jets that didn’t do well for me.

I'm scratching my head at why you keep trying to launch it with the gyro off? Aren't the problems you are having one of the very reasons gyros made their appearance in the first place?

Sorry to see these happen. The first one is a stall for sure(Though I'm not sure if your inputs lifted it up? or the nose gear hit a bump, then lifted it up prematurely?). The second one, might not be a hand lunch plane. The third one looks like you need more expo and less throw on the alieron(although it is hard to tell without your throw&expo settings). My suggestions: 1 set up a flaperon to get it up on the grass field. (Though flaperon is not compatible with SAFE at the moment) 2 get an AR636B SAFE/AS3X receiver. (setting it up the right way could take some time, but I'm 100% sure you will love the result. If you would like to find out what SAFE receiver feels like in comparison to other gyro assisted receivers. Check out my video of me and my buddy flying our yak130s together. ) 3 inspect the runway before you line it up. Choose the smoothest part you can find. (if this is the only place you can find to fly it. Coz it looks really rough.) A small bump could ruin the takeoff on an EDF jet completely for ya. 4 A steering gyro will help to line up your takeoff better. And to keep it on a steady course. I use Assan AG61 steering gyro in all of my tri-gear planes. (I deal with a bumpy runway as well. Matter of fact, in my Yak video, you can see my Yak 130 jumping up and down after touch down at 2:38. And you can see how my buddy's yak bounced around on takeoff at 0:12.) Finally, before you figure out what happened on that third crash. Don't let it hold up your progress. Maybe try something else for this field. :)

I love all of these excuses. It's "NEVER" the pilots fault !!!

Yikes man, I’m sorry to see this. I know the feeling though. I’m just glad that you got 2 good flights on it. My E-Flite 80mm F-18 Blue Angel was destroyed on the maiden because of an uncontrollable right roll tendency which no amount of left input would correct for. After fighting it for 40 seconds, it finally departed controlled flight and crashed into a tree, sheering one of the wings and both elevators off, effectively making the model unflyable. Very unfortunate.

That thing bounced and nosed down from the bumps in the grass. Too bad 😞

Too bad too. I have one of those F35's. I have a 600 foot paved runway to fly from. I will never fly it from grass. Sorry about your bad luck with yours.

one day i hope some jet maker figures out how to get the thrust to weight ratio in the positive, where edf jets can beat a little 3d planker. Every jet made is a brick and slow to boot. THe only production jets that can keep me interested are the su35 and habu.

We have all been there.... Thanks for sharing.... Can't buy any of the nice jets as wheels just to damn small for our grass

f35 damn if this sell on amazon i buy it damn too good ^^

I have one also and yes it don't take much to tip stall because of the stubby wing and body shape, it's a all around pore body also with the air intakes. I definitely understand. I fly off concrete but yet it will definitely aways require a bit of speed than normal in a run because they will fall straight out the sky . Even if you have it dialed in

Everyone loves a great crash and burn. 😂😭❤

That wasn't a stall. The nose gear entered a "rut" in the grass. Have a closer look.

What connectors do it uses ? Xt60 ?

You got to cut the throws down on the aileron, it tends to be a bit twitchy. RCGroups has a good thread with settings that are more appropriate than the manual's settings. You could also put a Spektrum AR636 and program it with SAFE to make the takeoffs and landings easier. I like using it for the first few flights, gives you a safety net. This is not the easiest plane to fly, but it is doable.

Admire your perseverance! The grass is not good for this 70mm edf for sure.

It didn't stall. It bounced-nose dived into a crash because GRASS. I would never fly this edf off grass. Too expensive. Has to be concrete or asphalt.

My deepest condolences to the loss of the F-35. That plane needs to be moving at least 65>70 mph to be stable and take off. Ouch at that. We have a Geo-Tex 500' runway at my club , and watched him , Tip Stall before he had airspeed . Resting in pieces? Still though. Nice attempt and it will not be a future purchase. I prefer Seaplanes , J-3 Cubs and Prop driven Warbirds. Otherwise , Keep um Flying . Never give up.

I think it would work better if you install a steering gyro. I have one that Is brand new in the box that I am scared to build because of this very reason. I’ve crashed four of them already.

maybe you could geta bigger front landing gear, turn on your flite stabilizer, ease into throttle get your speed up then use up elevator keep trying u can fly that pig LOL

mo power freewing jets, su 35 is the only jet worth a shit.

Not enough speed to stay in the air, not too much power with the 70 mm for that size. Sorry. Nice jet

Agree with previous comment....... 1st was a stall, 2nd horrible toss, 3rd..... shit that was weird

aren't those suppose to be VTOL?

Anything is repairable as long you have enough glue and tape

This was hard to watch 🥵 I felt I was in your shoes.

repair it how tf you repair it everytime?

That FW f35 is a flying brick . First set the ESC timing to high , install a thrust pipe , glue the wings to the fuz and cut the spare away that is restricting the air flow Infront of the fan this will give it 200gram more thrust and will help lots with grass take off

talking about flying rc plane the jet is the best way to flying rc

This damn rc just doesn’t fly well.. ive experienced the same loss of control with the ailerons and it rolled right

wow, that airplane do not like you, and you have the easy jet to flight. Sorry for you lost.

Sorry to see your plane go down like that. I think what happened was the plane wasn't going fast enough on takeoff so not enough speed to create lift classic tip stall on premature rotation. The plane will also do this on final if you get too slow.

For sure I am not going to bay that piece of garbage. It look pretty but is not powerful

nothing for this hobby. 350 dollars for a new jet with everything. Try doing rc helicopters when you screw up it cost 3k.

1 runway, setting, CG....