Well today is Friday May 15th 2009 and my little F-16 here met it's DEMISE, I was doing a diving low pass at full throttle and MAN she was cooking and as I was pulling out it fluttered and bit the dirt at about 150MPH, so she long gone now, OH well another on it way to replace her







This Is My F-16, It Has A Cc Phoenix 60amp Esc, Mega 16/15/2 (which I Am About To Install An Arc 28-47-1.5 From Dave At Lightflight) Het 6904 Fan. She Flies At About 110ish. I Kind Of Hate To Write This Because You Hear It So Much But When It's Truth You Have To Speak It, So Here Goes; It Truly Does Fly Like It Is On Rails, I Mean This Thing Is About As Smooth Of A Plane As I Have Ever Flown. The Gentlemen That Was With Me When I Did The Maiden Has Been Flying For 30 Years And He Stated That He Also Never Saw Such A Smooth Plane. Anyway Just A Little Bragging Since I Am The One That Built It, Lol

Looks like the F-16 from Nitro Models. I have one in a pusher configuration. I'm using a 6 cell 4200 to spin the hell out of an 8x6 APC E prop. I think my model has a lot of drag. It flys great. Thought about a conversion to EDF, but decided against it.

John

Todd,

Sorry that you crashed your F-16 my friend. But she was moving on thats for SURE!
I estimate the time between hearing the flutter until impact to be less than one second!

Regards,
Boyd

I know this is a new reply to an old post, but here goes anyway.

Sorry to hear you lost yours to flutter.

The first thing I noticed on mine out of the box was flutter inducig "flexi-loosi-gappy-shifty" moving surfaces. Still working on it and won't fly until it is done to my saitsfaction 100% on that account alone.