F/A 18 Hornet 1st flight and crash

Flight duration -- 31 Seconds! Flown at J and 110th West, Palmdale 3/2001. I built another one, fly's ok performance could be better no video on the 2nd airplane.

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• RC
• Palmdale
• F18
• Hornet
• Glow
• Airplane
• Blue
• Angels

[ilkiepie45]

pretty cool-maybe a little more time with the simulators?

[rlarson3232]

ya, it was early in my fling abilities I've gotten better and still need to work in other areas

[jpurcha]

So, what was the weight of the second plane? Where is the CG? Does it fly alot nicer. I'm only asking because I'm 80% through a building the same F-18 from RCM plans. Modified mine for a removable wing. Planning on using a Super Tiger 45 with pump. I expect to place some extra weight in the nose.

Where did you get the canopy?

Jim

[rlarson3232]

Jim,

The canopy was found at a hobby store, weight 6 lbs, OS Max .46 used standard muffler turned it around took off back section of muffler replaced w/circular piece of aluminum hole drilled in middle secure to ½ of the muffler & another ¼" or so hole for exhaust. This aloud clearance for prop. Should have bought exhaust I think my setup impacted the engine performance. Cont. 1of3

[rlarson3232]

Fuel tank placed in middle of plane w/out pump

worked ok, setup plane to be nose heavy on the 2nd plane, setup a wire skid plate in front of the engine to minimize prop strikes. I made my own landing gear to get the plane as high as I could so at take off I could have enough roll/pitch on takeoff and landings, but still looking right. My plane was all balsa and I had US Navy on the underside if wings, looked really cool when I flash the underside. Cont 2of3

[rlarson3232]

Some other suggestions, turn down you elevator rates the plane tends stall, and on takeoff i.e. from left to right, try as fare out as you dare roll down the runway fast as you can (about 100' past you) and gently roll plane up and get some altitude and keep plane near you to trim it, because your blue plane is hard to see on a blue clear sky, at least on the first couple of flights. Best of luck and I would like to hear how your plane works out for you. End 3of3

Butch

[yakovgolyadkin]

No, the opposite. If you're crashing, you ain't flying.

[grego418]

hhhmmmm, if you ever open an airline I'm not ever going on it, at least not without a parachute

[antonioosjr]

Muito comando, igual ao meu

[lin350gg]

tail heavy



[JetFlyyer]

The center of gravity was way off and it looked tailheavy

[AKcharger]

Did anyone die?

[jpurcha]

@rlarson3232

I would like to see a video of the second plane too.

Thanks

Jim

[jpurcha]

@rlarson3232

I would like to see a video of the second plane too.

Thanks

Jim

[MrTrailblazerman]

never seen an rc jet with a motor like that witha outdoor prop

[pcyr123456]

If you don't know without asking your brother then you are trying to pull one on us here.

[pcyr123456]

This is bound to happen when an less experienced RC Pilot operates and aircraft above there league so t speak. The hornet has a negative dynamic stability and to couple that to a CG problem the crash was inevitable,

[linkinparkrocker44]

the code was ill have to ask my brother but ill get back to u on that.