for you rc flyers, my soon to be new toy

[Skyguns MKII]

so here's the just of it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TufYysDFJk okay so obviously that's been upgraded to the max and you gotta love that paint job  but stock plane gos around 80 mph alone and for the price I'm paying you cant beat it. 5 star reviews and some are just hilarious so check them out. I believe one includes the guy losing his girlfriend proudly for this thing  http://www.hobbypeople.net/index.php/catalogsearch/result/?q=f16 iv recently flown the u2 spy plane by the same maker so i had to check out more of phase 3 products and this is on my list. So if any of you guys fly RC try some of these planes out chances are you wont be wronged for what your paying. 

[Sol75]

Phase 3 F-16 is a ton of fun.. I fly Giant Scale and Turbines, yet I still love throwing my phase 3 in the car, or strapping it onto the bike, running to the park and having a blast... one of the most pure fun RC planes I have... I fiberglassed mine, and run a 5 cell LiPO system, clocks in about 150mph.  TONS of fun!

Some of you may remember a few years back, I brought mine to the dayton gathering and did a few "strafing" runs... boy getting that thing launched and landed in that campground was TOUGH... brought it in steep, flared hard, and landed passing under the volleyball net!  All while dodging trees!  Tons of fun!

[Skyguns MKII]

Phase 3 F-16 is a ton of fun.. I fly Giant Scale and Turbines, yet I still love throwing my phase 3 in the car, or strapping it onto the bike, running to the park and having a blast... one of the most pure fun RC planes I have... I fiberglassed mine, and run a 5 cell LiPO system, clocks in about 150mph.  TONS of fun!

Some of you may remember a few years back, I brought mine to the dayton gathering and did a few "strafing" runs... boy getting that thing launched and landed in that campground was TOUGH... brought it in steep, flared hard, and landed passing under the volleyball net!  All while dodging trees!  Tons of fun!

are you running a stock fan? And how much more weight does glassing add?

[68ZooM]

lol that little bird was screaming along, and I thought my P 51 was fast at 126mph on a gas nitro engine.. I either need to start flying again or just sell them all, ever since Apple purchased the property that the RC airport was on there's nowhere to fly around here now. I have a B25 which wing span is the same length as a queen size bed.

[Skyguns MKII]

lol that little bird was screaming along, and I thought my P 51 was fast at 126mph on a gas nitro engine.. I either need to start flying again or just sell them all, ever since Apple purchased the property that the RC airport was on there's nowhere to fly around here now. I have a B25 which wing span is the same length as a queen size bed.

I used to be a gas nitro advacate yet when i got back into the hobby I realized that there is lower maintenance as well as they are more tolerable by the city with electric i.e. my flying is not restricted to a designated rc airfeild and most city parks don't allow anything engine operated both rc and vehicle specially where I live in Cali. After I get that f16 I plan on getting an electric super cub with actual landing suspension and once I buy larger tires it will be my designated bush flyer and will pretty much be able to take off and fly just about anywhere. If you do sell your stuff consider going electric given there are no fields near you or perhaps make a trade for it. I would understand otherwise though because the first plane I flew was gas and I didn't wanna make that transaction to a silly foam flying machine. But now here i am...

[Randy1]

R/C was a whole lot of fun for many years.  Man that is super fast.  Way to fast for these old fingers. 

[Dragon]

Phase 3 F-16 is a ton of fun.. I fly Giant Scale and Turbines, yet I still love throwing my phase 3 in the car, or strapping it onto the bike, running to the park and having a blast... one of the most pure fun RC planes I have... I fiberglassed mine, and run a 5 cell LiPO system, clocks in about 150mph.  TONS of fun!

Some of you may remember a few years back, I brought mine to the dayton gathering and did a few "strafing" runs... boy getting that thing launched and landed in that campground was TOUGH... brought it in steep, flared hard, and landed passing under the volleyball net!  All while dodging trees!  Tons of fun!

I was there for that, you made it look easy.  Feel free to bring em back next weekend, you know you want to!

[guncrasher]

lol that little bird was screaming along, and I thought my P 51 was fast at 126mph on a gas nitro engine.. I either need to start flying again or just sell them all, ever since Apple purchased the property that the RC airport was on there's nowhere to fly around here now. I have a B25 which wing span is the same length as a queen size bed.

funny i dated a girl that her leg span was the same as a queen size bed .


semp

[Devil 505]

funny i dated a girl that her leg span was the same as a queen size bed .


semp

"Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women."

[Sol75]

are you running a stock fan? And how much more weight does glassing add?

I am running an HET 70MM fan, with an HET 6S motor in it.. I would put the 6S pack in, but I cant fit it, so im running slightly reduced power on 5s.  Still, 1300 watts is a lot in the Phase 3 lol!

Glass didn't add too terribly much weight to it.  Honestly, with the power system im running, the glass was the least of the weight concerns.  If I had to guess, just slightly more than the "paper" stickers they give you for the wings in the kit.. I also added a lot of carbon fiber reinforcement to the airframe as well. I also sealed up the cheater holes.  It definitely does not fly like the normal one.. flies very "heavy" and "jetlike".  If you do glass it, jsut make sure and squeegee off as much resin as possible. 

I also have a 2nd one that is fiberglassed running the stock fan with a Don's Wicked 5400kv on 4 cells, it is the one I fly in more "confined" spaces, due to it landing a lot more gently.  It will top around 120mph, on 4S 3000mah packs...

[Sol75]

I was there for that, you made it look easy.  Feel free to bring em back next weekend, you know you want to!

I might bring something up.. depends on if the wife will let me lol...
I may have made it appear easy, but I assure you, it wasn't!

[MrGeezer]

It's probably not a hot topic on RC forums elsewhere, but one of the coolest thing a serious RC guy can do for their hobby is to study (probably and hour a night for two weeks), take, and pass the Technician Class FCC licence.  Thousands of middle and high schoolers have done it and passed with flying colors.  It's far from brain surgery for the Tech Ticket.    Once you have it you can retro-fit programming and switching over the transmit frequencies over to 50 mHZ and the (then) awesome higher power for R/C, and the resulting better range.  Check www.arrl.org for licencing info.  Check www.qrz.com for free test study games and example tests to take.

Oh, and on windy or rainy days you cannot RC outside you can use that same licence and appropriate equipment and antennas chat with the ISS space station, talk all over the planet on VOIP VHF/Internet relays, satallites, fun contacts world wide, voice on 28 mHZ worldwide with 50 watts and a wire antenna, or whatever.  And that's just the beginning.

Have fun!

ROX

[DaveBB]

I have a tech class license that I earned when I was 12.  I thought 6 meters and higher frequencies were all that was allowed.  When did they add 10 meters (28mhz)?

[MrGeezer]

Tech's got SSB (Single Side band) voice privileges from 28.300 to 28.500 mHZ back in the 1980's.  They also got CW from 28.100 to 28.200, same space the old novice band used to be.

It's even gotten far better since then.

In the 1990's, the FCC gave techs digital modes on 10m.

About 10-15 years ago techs got HF CW space on 80m, 40m, and 15m.  Enough power to do fine and learn the ropes.  They got lumped into some of the General Class CW/RTTY/Digital frequency range except only CW (Morse Code).  There hasn't been a Morse Code requirement for any class licence for a long time but most new techs I see go ahead and learn it on their own time anyway because that's the most bang for the buck in terms of signal but the best and juiciest long-distance rare guys operate.  I know many Tech licencees on HF, banging away on morse code (on a laptop or spare PC) at 50 words per minute and working half the world by keyboard or hand key...and then playing a game like Aces High or WoW on a computer screen right next to it.   

Wonderful technological day we live in. 

[Skyyr]

What kind of investment are you looking at for something like this? A fully-upgraded EF-16 for someone starting out as a noob?