Anyone been out flying?

[Ghettojeep]

I just recently jumped back into it, sadly I had been sans plane for a bit.... :rolleyes:

I picked up a Hanger 9 Tribute 36 PNP. It was about $180 and included the .Evolution .36 NT, 5 JR servos. Basically throw a rx and nitro in it and go.

I wanted an agressive plane, but don't have the necessary electrical gear to build a agressive electric, ie motor and esc, so I landed back on gas. This was one of the easiest and cheapest ways to go fly. I didn't feel like putting a kit together. I was considering a typhoon, but there wasn't one at the lhs and they are pretty much crap, but there was the Tribute.

http://www.horizonhobby.com/ProdInfo/HAN/450/HAN2950-450.jpg

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=553607

This is my 1st real 3D plane, and I have to say after maidening it yesterday it has been a blast. I flew tonight too, and in the thick air around sunset was awesome, nice, still and heavy. The little evo motor was loving it.

The plane seems to be a great value, and flys like nothing I've flown before. The 3D flight envelope is fun. I've done my 1st flat spins, including inverted waterfalls, etc. I had more then a a few hover attempts too, most were not pretty but I had a couple locked in for a few seconds. The size of the plane is nice, not too big to fly out of a couple soccer fields, but large enough to be stable and not "twitchy" like the park flyer sizes can be.

[ZJbrandon]

Nice plane.
my 3D foamy is wildly twitchy, a real handful.

I'm an electric flyer, and it's been a couple weeks since I've flown.

what area do you fly at normally?

[supremebeholder]

I'm still waiting on backorder parts to fix my Mustang. That will be the last time I buy anything from Hobby Lobby because they have screwed up my order every time I've purchased something.

I'm really thinking of just picking up a body to throw the electrics into in the meantime.

I’ve mainly been flying my planes at my house and landing on my almost never used road. The space is a little limited but it beats having to drive someplace.

[Steve]

Haven't flown in way too long. Have several planes tho. My Raven with a .45 SuperTigre engine looks a lot like the plane you posted, with a symetrical wing and huge control surfaces, is a blast. It'll do some wild aerobatics but with the wing loading it'll also fly very slow and stable. Gotta get back into flying again...

[newracer]

unfortunately no, need to though

[Ghettojeep]

Nice plane.
my 3D foamy is wildly twitchy, a real handful.

I'm an electric flyer, and it's been a couple weeks since I've flown.

what area do you fly at normally?

In Boulder, I had an AMA card until recently, but let the membership lapse so I haven't been out at that field.

With it being summer though, I usually fly at a middle school, has a track and football field, then about 4 times that in open land.

Really nice for small planes, my nitro 46 mustang was a little much for it, but the tribute does nicely.

[Ghettojeep]

Haven't flown in way too long. Have several planes tho. My Raven with a .45 SuperTigre engine looks a lot like the plane you posted, with a symetrical wing and huge control surfaces, is a blast. It'll do some wild aerobatics but with the wing loading it'll also fly very slow and stable. Gotta get back into flying again...

Cool, this is really my 1st real fully aerobatic model. Went out yesterday and was pulling my 1st really solid knife edges. That's a fun move for sure. The plane comes with side force generators too, but I haven't installed them yet.

Flat spins are really fun, the plane has awesome rudder authority, and you just ease it into almost stalling it, then full rudder, elevator and some aileron and then about 1/3 throttle and you can hear the "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" of the spin.

Then just as easy as it goes in, you let the surfaces back to neutral and pull it right out. Inverts are the same too, just upside down

I like the plane a ton, but it is def a lightweight. I'd guess if you cartwheeled it it would be toast.

[ColoradoSkier]

Haven't had my micros out in months. Makes me sad, been too busy with other stuff. Glad I didn't spend a ton of $$ in a bigger one that I wouldn't be flying right now though.

[Ghettojeep]

Haven't had my micros out in months. Makes me sad, been too busy with other stuff. Glad I didn't spend a ton of $$ in a bigger one that I wouldn't be flying right now though.

Yup, money pits. Nuff said.

The old saying.... If it flys, floats, or fxxxs.... your better off renting.... :D

[Norco]

I've got a Typhoon. It's a really fun plane for a foamie. It does as advertised, right out of the box with a 3S Lipo it has unlimited vert. The only thing I don't like- I guess the wing loading's a bit high and occasionally with just a bit too much elevator pull it'll stop flying and drop like a stone. That's happened close to the ground a couple times, which brings up the other nice thing about the bird. It bounces, and hot glue will fix it right up.

Of course, it doesn't fly nearly as well as my old Flip3d with a Saito 100 on the nose, but I don't fly nitro any more.

[Ghettojeep]

Yeah, I was planning on getting the Typhoon, then selling the radio gear, lipo, and charger out of it on ebay, but since no one had one in stock I went w/ the Tribute.

It's a great plane but really light weight, I ended up cracking the fusalage, so it needs to be repaired. Will be an easy fix though. I'm going to end up adding some carbon fiber into it I think to reinforce the notorious weak spot that this plane has. Plus prob going to glue the wing and cockpit on since there is an inherently weak point in the way the plane is designed. I am also planning on bumping up from the .36 NT to my .46 NT

It's a whole lot of fun, a great little plane. If I end up dumping it ever I may replace it w/ a 48" mojo which I hear great things about.

I'd still consider a Typhoon, although I've told myself I'm done w/ parkzones. I like the durability of the foam, but the electrics have something left to be desired.

However they do have a F4F Corsair coming out that looks awesome. 480 outrunner prob out of the t-28 and they upped the esc to a eflight 30 amp w/ bec. There are a ton of T28's w/ fried escs fo sure. They are also adding a 2.4 ghz Spektrum DX5 to the RTF package. That could be cool to have that radio, but I'm guessing it's not going to have mixing/etc. If it does the $279 will be a good deal.

The Pnp version is 100 bucks cheaper, but for that hundo you lose the radio, rx, batt and charger. I'm curious to read the reviews on the DX5, I haven't really heard of that one.

I have a JR 7202 which is basically a DX6 that's 72 mhz sythesized. I love the radio, but would like the extra confidence of the 2.4 ghz band. It sucks to lose a plane to radio hits, and I'm pretty sure that's what brought my mustang to it's demise.

[Haire Ball]

I pulled my Duraplane out and tried to get it fired up. New glowplugs and gas but couldn't even get a cough out of it. Tore it down, cleaned it out (dirt in carb from last crash 13 years ago!) and still couldn't get anything out of it. Then I moved to Oklahoma.

I really want to get it going. If anyone is good at tweaking those little cabs and getting motors running I could bring it over when I get back into town.... :drunk2:

[newracer]

Flew my Air Hogs boat/plane thing the other day.

[Ghettojeep]

I pulled my Duraplane out and tried to get it fired up. New glowplugs and gas but couldn't even get a cough out of it. Tore it down, cleaned it out (dirt in carb from last crash 13 years ago!) and still couldn't get anything out of it. Then I moved to Oklahoma.

I really want to get it going. If anyone is good at tweaking those little cabs and getting motors running I could bring it over when I get back into town.... :drunk2:

What size motor is it? I have a Evo .45 or .36 I could let go cheap.