Here are a couple of pictures from this Sunday at the "remote California test site" The first is of my fomie F22 with a Aveox 1010/3 on 7 CP1300 cells--flies great! the second picture is a picture of all the jets at the field Sunday. For the XB70 pics see the thread on it.

Steve

Group Photo

Steve N.

curious on how your foam ( I'm guessing wattage ) f-22 works with a fan. I been flying mine with the prop but have a spare MF480 that I can stick in it with mods of course.

and is 7 cells enough ?

BTW love your cat , nice line-up too!

I see the Jepe F-16 is back together Steve. Looks good

My Wattage F22 I have is still prop powered--I did sort of look at it and think that you could get a fan it it but then after all that it would still be a fomie.

steve

Is the sandy wash looking area that your planes are displayed on the "hard packed runway" that you are advertising?

That "sandy wash" is harder than you think! It is a hard clay cap put over the old land fill site which lies under our flying site. If you wish to come and have some fun with other jet fliers--great. If not --it's your loss.


FYI--the club will have a new runway by the MWE--about 100 yards from the present "sandy wash".

Steve

I can't wait for the new runway; Bigger, longer, and easier location to put up a race course next to it
When's the next impromptu EDF fly in??

SEFSD's jets are heading to the AZ jet ralley this weekend

Originally posted by sneu
FYI--the club will have a new runway by the MWE--about 100 yards from the present "sandy wash".
Steve

What surface will the new runway have and what is it's expected size?

Daren

The Wattage F-22 flies ok with an EDF, but getting the balance correct is difficult. Mine is running a EDF400 fan case with a cut down Kyosho rotor. Motor is a Kontronic Fun 400-28 on 12 x CP1300 cells. Getting the battery far enough back toward the fan to achieve the correct CG was impossible. I have about four ounces of lead in the tail to get the correct CG. That's about 8-10 percent of the total weight. I'd have to cut the ducts different and move the fan farther back to get the balance right.

As for fitting a MF480...forget it, unless you want a big hump in the bottom or top of the plane, and making the hump would be a pain. The MF480 is about 2 7/8 inch in diameter, while the EDF400 housing is 2.5" in diameter, and it just barely fits...I punhed a hole in the top above the fan housing and had to patch it. A better fan would be the new Vasa 65 fan that Hobby Lobby and EAM carry, that one is close to 2.5".

I'll have the F-22 at the Arizona Jet Rally Saturday morning.

The runway will be 100/400 feet. The surface will be packed DG.

Steve

Well, take lots of pics and videos for me at the Arizona fly in. I have an early Thanksgiving to attend to on Sunday and getting a new puppy on Saturday. I'm booked solid