Originally Posted by Austang

I maidened my Corsair this morning, She sure does want to pull left on rollout, she also wanted to climb all the time even with full down trim on just under half throttle, but I managed a full flaps landing and I still have my prop at the moment,
I will put up a bit of a vid later when it uploads.

Jeepers Glen another maiden, the wind must of stopped blowing and you sent it here, congrates again. Is that the North West Highway going past your flying oval.

Shaun.

Originally Posted by Banjofrog

Jeepers Glen another maiden, the wind must of stopped blowing and you sent it here, congrates again. Is that the North West Highway going past your flying oval.

Shaun.

Yeah its been a while since we had some good winds, and yeah ya spot on about the Highway, the oval is just around the corner so nice and handy.

Finally finally...mine will be here on Thursday..

I had to wait for a letter with a code on it, which you then have to go and pay on Parcelforce's website.
I was charged 'Import VAT' which amounted to £7.14, plus a 'handling fee'..called 'clearance fee'-basically for storing it whilst customs go about deciding what to charge..rip off!!!- that was an additional £13.50.

Anyway, Thursday is the day, can't wait to see it, and fingers x'd is intact.

Matt

I guess a bunch of us backordered the props. They came back into stock last night are now -11 already. Or maybe it's those Mustang guys LOL.
M

Are these props rarer than than rocking horse dung?

Originally Posted by MERLIN V16

I guess a bunch of us backordered the props. They came back into stock last night are now -11 already. Or maybe it's those Mustang guys LOL.
M

M....yeah...blame it on the Mustang guy's.......LOL......I learned my lesson with Hobbyking.....I sold the P-51 before I needed any spare parts, but I still got jammed by Hobbyking with the 70mm F-86 sabre as the electric retracts didn't work and after I sent it back there just ignoring the return....a real top notch company....that's what I get for buying CCC.

Originally Posted by LICobra

M....yeah...blame it on the Mustang guy's.......LOL......I learned my lesson with Hobbyking.....I sold the P-51 before I needed any spare parts, but I still got jammed by Hobbyking with the 70mm F-86 sabre as the electric retracts didn't work and after I sent it back there just ignoring the return....a real top notch company....that's what I get for buying CCC.

mmmmm..ahhh hahahaha.. Looks like HK customer service strikes again!

I was lucky and woke up to the email notification the prop was in stock. Crossing fingers the status reserved really means what it sounds like.

I haven't broken a prop yet, but from reading this thread seems it's really easy to do.

HK only allowed 2 proper per order, crasy they sold out that quick!

It will be well over a month before I will get to maiden her, but I've already cut out the flaps. It was much easier than I thought! I used a new x-acto blade and maybe cut 1/8 of an inch each pass.

I tried to make absolutely sure that I was cutting perpendicular to the foam and straight down. I won't need any Spackle or anything. In fact, it looks like they used hot glue hinges. I may do the same or use tape.

The flash washed out my cutting work, but my blade cut through this like a hot knife through butter! I just need to find the paint to match and this mod is much easier than I thought it would be.

Ricky

Hey Rick,

Nice job. I take it you didn't cut all of the way through as you mentioned the hot glue hinge. How do you plan to join the outer flap to the centre piece, then to the inboard flap piece?

Darren

Originally Posted by 013531

Hey Rick,

Nice job. I take it you didn't cut all of the way through as you mentioned the hot glue hinge. How do you plan to join the outer flap to the centre piece, then to the inboard flap piece?

Darren

I don't know. I haven't decided yet.

Before I received the Corsair, I was almost positive I would a carbon rod glued through the inner piece and using a couple sleeves made out of a coffee stirrer sticks or something in the outboard and inboard flaps.

I still may go that way, but the flaps (and the entire plane) are much bigger than I thought, so I could just run a control rod from the servo to each individual flap?

I won't have any time this week or weekend to mess with it, but hopefully next week I will!

What receivers are people using in theirs? Satellite or no? Flight times with the 3S 2200mah battery flying conservatively?

Ricky

Originally Posted by rickgode

I don't know. I haven't decided yet.

Before I received the Corsair, I was almost positive I would a carbon rod glued through the inner piece and using a couple sleeves made out of a coffee stirrer sticks or something in the outboard and inboard flaps.

I still may go that way, but the flaps (and the entire plane) are much bigger than I thought, so I could just run a control rod from the servo to each individual flap?

I won't have any time this week or weekend to mess with it, but hopefully next week I will!

What receivers are people using in theirs? Satellite or no? Flight times with the 3S 2200mah battery flying conservatively?

Ricky

I'm going to use a Spektrum 8 channel w/ a sat. I'll set up w/Dual ailerons with the other 2 empty channels for flaps and lights.

Originally Posted by rickgode

I don't know. I haven't decided yet.

Before I received the Corsair, I was almost positive I would a carbon rod glued through the inner piece and using a couple sleeves made out of a coffee stirrer sticks or something in the outboard and inboard flaps.

I still may go that way, but the flaps (and the entire plane) are much bigger than I thought, so I could just run a control rod from the servo to each individual flap?

I won't have any time this week or weekend to mess with it, but hopefully next week I will!

What receivers are people using in theirs? Satellite or no? Flight times with the 3S 2200mah battery flying conservatively?

Ricky

I am using a Spektrum AR600 with a DSX6i rx. I fly on Turnigy 2200mha 40c batteries. I usually bring between 6 to 8 planes to the field with me and have all my prop planes set at six minute timer. After that time I am ready to fly something else. Bad case of attention deficiency. I have a Hobby Lobby 11" four blade prop with the pitch set at 10. Batteries come down still cool to the touch with around 3.8ish volts per cell. Most of my flight is done at around 60% throttle. I do this so the Parkzone guys done feel left out by passing them and leaving them in my prop wash.

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Item Number: CP84994xxxxHK
Posting Date Drop-off Point Origin 16-Mar-2012
23-Mar-2012 Air Mail Centre (Counter Section) Hong Kong

Date # Location Delivery Status
23-Mar-2012 Hong Kong Item posted.
25-Mar-2012 Hong Kong Processed for departure.
At least the spare props will be here before the plane LOL.

Originally Posted by Matt Halton

Finally finally...mine will be here on Thursday..

I had to wait for a letter with a code on it, which you then have to go and pay on Parcelforce's website.
I was charged 'Import VAT' which amounted to £7.14, plus a 'handling fee'..called 'clearance fee'-basically for storing it whilst customs go about deciding what to charge..rip off!!!- that was an additional £13.50.

Anyway, Thursday is the day, can't wait to see it, and fingers x'd is intact.

Matt

Been there done that, then they failed to deliver on the day (waited in all day) because the system didnt pass on that I had paid up. I would always try and avoid them if possible.
Sorry for going off topic!