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Well, I am not interested in all the "I am so perfect at landing" story tellers anyway.
The Mod is to help all the normal people flying this thing! Don't do the Mod and one day you will regret it..... (And I bet those 'perfect landers' have bounced aircraft plenty of times too anyway really!) |
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Little off topic here, I looked through all the different Freewing plane threads and this one's the most active. I bought a Freewing 90mm F-16 a year ago second hand. The plane was well maintained but the previous owner used some sort of clear coat that created a fair amount of yellowing and cracked the paint up something feirce!! Does anyone know how to strip the paint completely off without damaging the foam at all? It's the Thunderbirds scheme and I'm lookin to repaint her.
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You’re probably better off just fixing any areas with spackle, sanding those areas and then painting straight over the old paint. I normally don’t even use primer. |
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It’s difficult to remove the paint, but it’s real, because EPP, not afraid of active solvents, acetone and other solvents can be used, but it will be a dirty job ...
We wash off the paint first, then the remaining paint to a clean surface. It will stink a lot, it is necessary to use respiratory and vision protection. An exhaust device will help 50% |
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EPP? Do you mean EPO?
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You can check on armaments .....
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But doing this nose gear spring modification would not have prevented the a/c to bounce given these two situations that I put it in. This was because of pilot error, nothing more, nothing less. Had absolutely nothing to do with a nose gear spring, what so ever. And there are many other scenarios that can cause this a/c to bounce on landing as well. These are just the only two I myself experienced. But the key is, I learned from the mistakes and now prevent the a/c from entering such situations. Once I was able to do that, problem solved. And this A-10 isn't exactly the easiest for me to fly. I've flown an array of a/c, both prop, EDF, even nitro for years. The A-10 is easy on takeoff and flying. But landings are a totally different story for me. For me, landing this A-10 gives me the most stress out of all a/c I've landed. Not sure why that is. Mine is pretty heavy though, weighing in at a little over 15 pounds with batteries installed. Mine has brakes also, so that's another 3s battery included. The a/c that is second on the stress level for me is the 90mm F-16, again, especially on the landings. Yes, everybody has off days. But the one very important lesson I've learned is, if the landing doesn't feel right while coming in to the final approach, no worries, make a go around pass. For so many years I had this idea that I had to land on the first attempt. When I began to fly this A-10, I started to do go arounds if I didn't like the feeling of the approach. I've prevented lots of rough landings doing it that way. We all know what the feeling is like when the a/c is coming in just perfectly and we also know what it feels like when we have doubts about how the approach is going. I will only land if I am very comfortable with how the a/c is making it's final approach. So the key is to be able to 1)identify when the a/c is in such a scenario, and 2) successfully removing it from such a scenario. In my case, I do a go around pass. and do it again until it comes in the way I like it, the way it feels right. Works every time. |
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Last edited by Kougar Mark II; Sep 23, 2019 at 12:11 PM.
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It will in specific situations. I used acetone to remove the factory paint from my first 90mm F-4 Phantom. I found that the foam becomes agitated and ultimately gators super bad if the acetone is rubbed back an fourth on the foam. Ideally, you want to just wipe it in one direction only and limit the foam's exposure to the acetone as much as possible. The longer the foam is exposed to the acetone, the more it will start to gator. Rubbing it back and fourth expedites the gatoring.
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Meanwhile, my F-16 has around 300 flights and still gets my full attention every landing. Granted I’m flying on a narrow and relatively short runway, which causes most of the problem, but I still celebrate every landing that I avoid going up on a wingtip with it. Granted that’s virtually all of my landings now when I don’t have to fight a crosswind, but even a 5-10 mph crosswind makes me nervous with the F-16. |
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The F-16 is much smaller, lighter and thus why I feel a bit less stressed when landing her there. To give you an idea of the runway I'm flying from, here's a vid taken of flying my A-10 back when I was within my first 12 or so flights. Lots of stress with all this stuff. And with these curbs, I have to be right on the money when landing. Taking off and flying her around is fun and exciting, but I always don't look forward to the landings with this A-10 because of it's size, weight and the obstacles around where I fly her.
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