This is the ORIGINAL version of the MicroFighter/StarScream RTF F-22 (as I designed and engineered it with the motors mounted on the VERTICAL STABILIZERS, not wings!!), with the removeable landing ...
This is the ORIGINAL version of the MicroFighter/StarScream RTF F-22 (as I designed and engineered it with the motors mounted on the VERTICAL STABILIZERS, not wings!!), with the removeable landing gear demounted. Note vertical roll, etc. This video as well as the others I posted demonstrate how it was intended to fly, with a broad flight regime, from super-fast to slow, including tight maneuverability, and nose-high landings, even living room/office flight when desired! A plane for beginners AND experts. Google: "StarScreamer/ MicroFighter into Backyard Bird!" especially noting Post #226. (Test flight shown was in light rain in China early 2007)
NOTE: you can view a video of the original version flying around "my" Chinese office: "Air Rage MicroFighter / StarScream F-22 OFFICE flight", as well as my other videos showing more loops, rolls, take-offs and landings, and even an indoor slow-speed easily controlled TABLE-TOP "aircraft carrier" landing!!
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The ITC version (unauthorized by me: inventor/designer/engineer/pro ject mgr...till I left the factory in China before actual prdn.)of my F-22 was "modded" by them. THAT version -- the only one you can buy -- will NOT fly as shown in this video. If you buy this plane in order to get it to fly as shown in my videos you must first "UNmod" it as shown in great length and detail in the "...Backyrd Bird" RCGroups thread referenced below.
This (and the other videos I posted) basically shows how the Air Rage MicroFighter/StarScream F-22 will fly AFTER you move the motors from the wings (where the factory now puts them) back to their ORIGINAL position on the fins (vertical stabilizers). See RCGroups thread explaining this easy "UNmod"! >> Google: "StarScreamer/ MicroFighter into Backyard Bird!" , especially noting Post #226
hey so im kind of confused. is this the starscream with the original design (vertical fin prop location) or a different plane? the description says "super raptor" with larger motors and stuff so i wasnt sure. if its still the starscream where did u get larger motors for it?
I posted 3 videos. The one indoors used the same size motors as the 2-ch AA/X-Twins. The outdoor videos used a stronger motor, maybe a bit stronger than the "StarScreamer", which has the motors on the wings. The ORIGINAL F-22s in my 3 videos are the same as the "StarScream" except for the motor placement. I believe the motors in the "StarScream" are close to the ones used in my videos.
I strongly believe that the presently sold version, in which "they" moved the motors from my ORIGINAL design -- in which the motors were mounted on the vertical stabilizers, as shown and demonstrated in all the videos I posted, and how it was supposed to be made and shipped, until "they" stupidly CHEATED and changed it after I left the factory -- is very difficult and problematic to fly. (continue) >>
>>You can put yours into its original EASY-to fly state by reading the following thread, starting on page 1 and going ALl the way through, especially noting Post #226 >> Google: "StarScreamer into Backyard Bird"
Hey Lee. I found your post about the filter/s on some forum. I was wondering if there was anything else to enhance performance out of this plane. I am not too good at modifying this particular flyer... and at 40 dollars, it is just not something I'd keep buying into seeing how this current flyer marks my third sale of this actual aircraft. Thanks
Google: "StarScreamer into Backyard Bird!" and go through from start to finish to find more than you need to know. Moving the motors back to vert-stabs as shown is not very hard if one is reasonably careful, and can even be done without resoldering (see several posts on that in thread). Or minimally UNtape the landing gear so they can knock off, tighten if needed w/ slit in new tape covering foam slit, balance and put CA in shafthole behind them, and tape on paperclip rear weight(see hread).
Hey I appreciate it dude....nice plane...with this information, the possibilities are endless probably. By the way, I was actually thinking of applying some decals and a mild coat of camouflage on the bird... what do you think?
If you keep it very light and do not add more than 0.5 grams it should be ok. Try some kinds of felt tip markers or especially airbrush (there is also a kind of mouth-blown airbrush felt tip marker ink system somewhere)
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Google: "StarScreamer into Backyard Bird"