Freewing 64mm F-14 Tomcat Maiden Flight

Maiden flight of the Motion RC Freewing Twin 64mm F-14 Tomcat! This thing is fast for a twin 64mm.

Landing was a bit scary... I had down elevator when flaps were engaged as per book. Next flight, I removed the elevator compensation and it was much easier. Stay tuned for that video...

[highalpharc]

That second landing was pure redemption! Nice job!

[jerryc]

Nice job man maidens can be stressful but it came down in one piece

[rcplaytime]

absolutely gorgeous plane dude, really nice flying 👌 😀 👍👍

[dkjens]

Ahh the old Apollo 11 field in Van Nuys. I've done quite a few flights with my Comp-ARFs there back in 2005-2010.

[gooniac]

Excellent maiden!! You can never be perfect on a maiden but you adapted in a way that few people do when the landing settings were weird. Good job and you just got a new sub!!

[capnhardway]

Very nice Jose! Good to see you out again.

[IceMan]

It flies so sweet flown my a few times. That's the best livery of all time in my opinion.

[kangamanic]

Looking forward to seeing this in person at the field

[AllanG]

Yes. Definitely needs throttle when you come in. On my maiden, I came in a shorter approach with less of my runaway and had a very nice glide slope with little power and she suddenly dropped. Bent the front gear but was able to get it straighted out. 2nd flight, came in with power and had no problems.

Side note, Motion's version of SAFE is auto levelling only when you're off the stick (per Motion). There's no bank angle limits like Horizon and you can do loops and rolls in Motion's "SAFE" mode. (I can confirm that, lol). They call it panic mode which is accurate.

[wash-rc]

I had same issue with flaps and wing sweep. What i did is find the sweet spot on my remote when the flaps are in position 1 so that the swing sweep disables. On my Futaba that was +45 on AFR of flaps. I then adjusted the Right max to flaps up (+35) and left max to flaps full down (also +35). All done in AFR setting (dual rates).
Also it seems you where a bit tail heavy.
I am in love too. I flew 3 times. Cant wait for next weekend

[victorrcjets]

I use a mode to trim my flaps than trying to use a flap to elevator mix.

[capnhardway]

There's your cardio for the week lol😂

[andystoybox]

Nice maiden cowboy 🤠 you will get her dialed 👍🏻👍🏻

[frank-vqmx]

Be careful. I've seen two crashes due to wing sweep failure !!

[rodinvillarosa]

That wingloading though 😬, just the same great maiden! Love that jet but I think my field doesnt have a long enough a runway for landing.

[SlowFlyer]

Nice looking edf and flying Jose, seeing your using a Frsky transmitter I just pick up the X20S whole new learning curve from a spektrum started watching your videos on ethos files good video's 😊👍👍👍

[davidgerlach]

Nice F-14 and look like a great flyer. No offense, but your controller looks like something out of the Leslie Nelson movie in 1956 the "Forbidden Planet."

[bytex]

Hi, what is that spaceship of a transmitter you have? 😮

[garyrussell]

Lots of problems wlth this jet need a v2 soon

[RCPhysics]

What radio is that? It looks like a MONSTER!