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Posted: April/28/2012 at 5:07pm  Quote
 

I went to the Intermodellbau Fair last Friday the 20th and couldn't resist buying the RTF

It's a Dymond P-51 60" wingspan, electric main and tail retracts, 70 A controller, brushless inrunner turning a scale-ish 18x10 4-blade, 6 servos installed (2 flap, 2 aileron, rudder and elevator) and wingtip lights.
Got it for ?199, which I thought was a good deal, I see it online for ?239.

I modified just slightly by using keflar for the tail gear pull-pull in stead of the supplied steel wire.

Unfortunately while gleuing the canopy I damaged the paintjob slightly, as the paint came off a bit when I removed the tape I secured the canopy with.
But I'm just gonna call that weathering

The nice thing about electric retracts is that the operate with a scale-like speed.
I programmed my transmitter by adding an extra delay for one of the main gear servos, now the left gear first moves up and when it's about 60% up the right gear moves up too.
Same procedure going down.

It's just something fun to throw in the car and a bit bigger than my parkzones if I don't fancy  flying the expensive stuff

Danny



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Posted: May/04/2012 at 9:40pm  Quote
 
Hello Danny!
Nice aquisition you made!!

Is it made of polystyrene foam? If it is, you can touch up the damaged area around the canopy, using tamiya acrylics diluted with rubbing alcohol, it doesnt damage the foam, for security, you can prime it using some white glue before!!

Did you already flown it? I remember you mentined me about that kind of retracts, hope they work as you wanted

Regards!!


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Posted: May/05/2012 at 4:34pm  Quote
 
Het Raul,

Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try.
I have already maidened it and it flew well, it's not extremely fast but it looks good at the pace it's going.
The retracts work fine, they retract in about 7 sec.
I programmed my transmitter to slowly actuate one of the retracts, so they now actuate asymetrically.

I also discovered that the recommended deflections are way too big, so I programmed in some exponential on the elevator and ailerons.

Danny

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