Nice review Chris. I will have to get one of the new batteries. Mike Heer

Good review. It is cool that this higher performance plane can still be flown effectively with the RTF transmitter even without expo or dual rates, making the TX-R version an option for those who already have the RTF transmitter from another model.

The small charge port is for charging the 1S batteries used with Flyzone's other micro models.

No landing gear, no DSM, no nothing (let along retracts). Just wait for Parkzone to release the F-86 verion of their Mig.

Originally Posted by mikhail tupulov

No landing gear

Originally Posted by CSpaced

Originally Posted by mikhail tupulov

I am still going to get one of these. Nearly half the price of the Mig and a free Anylink system for me TX. That is hard to beat even if it doesn't fly quite as well as the Mig.

Put two flights on the Great Planes Micro F-86 yesterday. Overall impression very favorable.

Used the Anylink module with my DX7. Worked well, but I hate sticking the module on the TX with velcro.

Used the landing gear, as we have a great runway at the club field.

Enjoyed flying it for the very most part. Good power and speed and decent duration from the little fan and motor. Mine had the newer 250 battery with the model. the fan sounded great and was vibration free, which was nice.

One issue that I did not care for was how Great Planes rigged the model. They molded in a significant amount of negative stab incidence, which is fine until you do a roll or extended inverted flight. It then takes a massive amount of down elevator to level out the roll while inverted and to fly inverted.

Need to tun the rates and exp a little more, but will not be hard to dial in, I think.

Take off and landing manners were quite nice in the 6-7 mph winds Saturday evening. Carrying a touch of power allows the model to make very soft landings. Power completely off tends to allow the model to develop a little more sink rate than you need to have, and the model tends to bounce at touchdown.

Overall stability was pretty good. I was alternating flights with this model and with my fairly new Parkzone uM Spitfire with AS3X gyro stablity assist. The Spit was a little more stable and groovy, but the little F-86 was not that far behind it.

I though the quality of the finish on this F-86 was really nice...very well done and perhaps a little nicer than the latest HH uM and uMX models.

Originally Posted by GBLynden

I am still going to get one of these. Nearly half the price of the Mig and a free Anylink system for me TX. That is hard to beat even if it doesn't fly quite as well as the Mig.

Not sure how you can say it is half price compared to the uMX Mig. The Mig is 150-170 BNF and the little F-86 is $150-160 TX-R with the free Anylink module.

I guess if you had to buy a DX6i TX, it would be twice as much, but that is not comparing apples and apples. For any Spektrum user, the price is basically the same for either model.

i have the mig an sabre, i think the sabre looks better , and the mig flys a little better, i got the sabre for 99.99 with a free anylink when it first came out, and i just ordered a new sabre 2 days ago when tower hobby had them on sale for 59.99 with a free anylink so the first sabre was 49.99 cheaper then the mig and the new one i just ordered is 90.00 cheaper then the mig.
im not saying anything bad about the mig, hh has the best cus service, but the sabre for 49.99 and now 90.00 cheaper for the new one i just ordered makes the sabre the better choice for me

Yea, I had been eyeballing the f-86 as well. My LHS had it for $79.00 with the AnyLink and I thought t at was a sweet deal. When I went in on Sat. to buy it had been reduced again to $59.00 SWEEEEEEEET. I have not flown yet. Need to get the Futaba cable as none of the supplied cables will work with my radios.