Flight Fun with Aero Jex (Sky Soldier) RC plane.

Having fun with my cheapo Aero Jex 2-channel electric RC plane (the same as the Sky Soldier). Bought it for 25 quid in the UK, yeah homies. It's really hard to fly in the slightest of winds (causing all these crashes), but quite solid fun for its money! And speaking of solid, the little bugger is virtually indestructible as you can see from the video, surviving even head-on collisions with concrete columns xD Enjoy... ;-)

Many thanks go to my friends who did the shooting while I did the flying :-)

Some trivia: the transmitter is 40 MHz, which as every decent RC flier knows totally sucks for flying models in terms of range per power (it's even reserved to ground rc vehicles but heh, that's how they sold it in the UK where I bought it). The batteries are a pack of three 2/3 AAA 300 mAh Ni-Mhs. You may get up to 7 minutes of intermittent flying with a full charge, but not 7 minutes straight before overheating occurs, that's one of the reasons most flights are under 1 minute long, and I don't think it could go over 2-3 even under ideal circumstances, without a pause.

I'm using rechargeable batteries for the Tx, and it just seems to work as good as it can.

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[jauchiu]

Cool video.You had fun,That's all that counts.Looks like your friend was having fun launching the plane.I had fun watching.Mission accomplished.

[Velktron]

@jauchiu Very true, we all had fun that day (including the guy's gf who did part of the shooting). He actually got scolded by me for "launching" the plane in such a half-assed way though ;-)

[lauri647]

I have the same plane on orange color.

[vsci79]

Nice music :-)

[sukyake]

My first Thunder Hawk was with some WD-40 oil in the gearbox and the main "output axis".

Not so useful for new planes, but increase ~1min flight time if you feel that the prop is "a bit hard to spin". The main axis should spin *very very freely* when you disassemble the plastic capsule.

Check it, bescause 3.3A is a bit high for this plane. My Thunder Hawk sucks 2.8~2.5A from the full charged Li-ion cell with full throttle when it was an active 9monthes old flying plane.

[Velktron]

Well, these are toy-grade. They really aren't made any better than those cheap RC cars that only have 1 forward and 1 backwards speed (and in fact, the RX and TX circuitry is often the same!). There are no ball bearings and no wear compensation, although you could lube them I guess.

[sukyake]

I had tested a 2S Li-Po (7,4V) on a old Thunder Hawk circuit (it's the same too), it don't blow up, but it don't work with high voltage, it only want to work at low voltage. I belive the maximum voltage is 5 volts, higher than that it cut-off.

these planes are pretty cool, but I guess they are made to work during 1 year.

I got 2 other different planes called Thunder Hawk. The same electronic, but different design, they are both with bad gear box.

[Velktron]

My motors and the gears are pretty much goners since one of the propellers snapped, more than a year ago. I'm on the look for cheap component I could throw in to mod it to full flight capability. The original setup quickly lost power power in a matter of a handful of flights, and most of it was during the making of this video.

[Velktron]

The major flaw with 3.6 V designs is that larger currents == more heat losses. The 4.8V versions fare much better in this respect, and a conversion to 7.2V Lipo would be pretty much mandatory.

[Velktron]

These look cool, I always believed it would benefit from a LiPo cell. I am not so sure if this class of cells could deliver the required current for long periods without overheating though (I measured up to 3-3.5 A with full throttle under strain on my own plane).