RC Jet PERFECTION - Freewing F-14A Tomcat Twin 64mm

The F-14 Tomcat twin 64mm from Freewing is the best 64mm jet you're going to fly. There is nothing else as powerful or feature packed as this jet. Or, with our setup, anywhere near as agile, either. This jet does damned near everything we wanted from a fighter.

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0:00 Introduction
1:05 Landing Gear
3:20 Flight Time
4:00 Agility
5:33 Fit/Finish
6:00 Review Score
6:40 CG, Battery Placement
7:18 Caution: Wind Shear
9:18 Tomcat 64 vs Tomcat 80
10:05 Throttle-based Sweep
10:49 Takeoff & Landing Expectations
12:15 Real-time Thoughts
14:46 Setup Guide

[AllanG]

On landings, "high angle attack is not your friend." That's it!!!! I'm so use to coming in with a HOA from F16s, F22, and a Rafale that I keep stall this 3-5 feet off the ground. Thank you!!!

[ModelAVRChannel]

Dustin is loving his. Great jet. The 80mm so needs to be upgraded...and I bet it will. I notice you got the same wiggle at full sweep we did with the stock gyro. Kind of weird.

[kellyrk]

Touch and Go at 11:47

This is what he's singing about at the beginning of Danger Zone in Top Gun. It's how they practice for Carrier landings.

"Metal under tension. Begging you to touch and go." The 'Metal under tension' is the arresting wire at the aft of the Carrier Flight Deck.

[kalebludwig]

I got to say I like the way the rc f 14 tomcat flies (especially in midair).

[antoniog]

Ok, I was NOT expecting this right off the start, but so glad it happened. *"Finally! A fighter jet to fit Tom Cruise!"* Shots fired! 😂👏

[KIN_Additive]

Wow! There were some really scary moments! Great reaction time to be able to recover the stalls in wind like that. Definitely putting the F-14 on my wish list... Just need to get a little better at flying first.

[willkgt]

This is a FANTASTIC review. I was buying this plane anyway. But now with full confidence.

[PaulSmith-sszm]

I like the slower realistic landing gear

[alexcostello]

That is jolly Roger's sign on plane. Uss Nimitz. My dad was in vf-41.

[antoniog]

#202 from VF-84, that's the Tomcat Al "Shoes" Mullen flew on The Final Countdown...cool!

[sendit_rc]

I found that the 10360T gets really good reception without a extra satillite.The 8360T down to 637T does need a extra satillite receiver to get the same reception.

[AL-RCjunkie]

Awesome review, Jon. I'm digging the rating system. That throttle mixed wing sweep is friggin cool!
I'm so glad these manufacturers are really putting efforts into new planes. Not just stuffing new tech into 15 year old molds and re-boxing them as "version 8!". 👍

[zacharynashalook]

Hey Jon w/out the H & Family.

Love the video again this is like the pro channel that covers everything! Thanks buddy really appreciate it.

[mrdestroyer]

My friend and I took the wing to belt sander made the bottom flat reshape the top of the tip and I put wing fences on it so much better. It was always a good in takeoff and flying it’s second to none but that landing was always such a pain even getting it right it could still bite you now it’s tame and a very predictable airplane. I recommend.

[EDF_FANatic]

Wondering if you had to open up some space on the elevator servo pockets to get the hitecs to fit since the servo extension plug would have to be near the servo pockets with new servos compared to the stock servos that had extra long leads joined straight from the servo body

[AdilErt]

You guys are much better and more realistic than other channels.

[williamlane]

I would pay extra for the twin 80 if it was built robust out of the box like we have to do to upgrade it to be flight capable. 80mm needs to be updated to a version 2 and I would buy it for sure if it had all the fixes, like the landing gear are very week even with grass opps upgrade. The trunions on the retracts are very week for the weight of the plane. They get loose very quickly allowing tons of play

[williewideback]

I Really enjoy your shakedown's on this Freewing 64mm F-14 Tomcat, And i totally agree 100% that Freewing should do the exact same mod's on its 80mm version

[andretaskmaster]

Jet of the year, I am calling it, maybe even next year

[erikshute]

Great Video Jon! By fare the best review of this plane on YouTube right here.