I love doing long high-speed runs, pretending I'm mowing down the enemy as it howls by. It is one of my favorites in my hanger. It is the touch-and-go queen. Fantastic review, John. You always kill it!
Looking forward for the mig 29 video, I've had the model with thrust vector for a few years and it's been a great fun jet. Hope you keep creating for the community. Happy holidays
I've seen 70+videos of yours and that's my 2nd 3nd comment! Great reviews and I bought 1.6m s.tucano for fpv platform and it's great 👍 keep up the honest reviews 💯
John thanks for the review, happy to see it on the channel and that you are genuinely enjoying the model. Nice pushing of the flight envelope, nice to see.
Wow, what a beautiful plane. I just got my TT SWS, fan and 5065-450 motor and will be building her over the holiday, so looking forward to your follow-up.
Although I don't always agree with your setups or reviews I definitely do with this one. I have flown this particular model without any gyro stabilizer as well as with and find it's equally as good. Its outstanding either way. Very good review on this model.
Was waiting for this review! Been looking at the super tucano or the freewing 80mm A10 as an headtracking fpv platform. I was dead set on the A10 but the tucano is looking better everytime I watch videos on it
@ right! I’d love the A10 to use for RC bomb drops and to fly scale missions meant for the warthog, but the tucano has a great flight time and is docile which would be perfect to learn fpv flying
Very cool, thank you. Maybe in future reviews, you could show how a plane behaves with gyro on and off? For comparison purposes. You know, some of us 40+ model pilots in the eastern EU fly without gyros (we consider them as a work of devil and are afraid of them).
I got one of the first run models and had to replace the nose gear after encountering a grass windrow on landing. I replaced it with an all aluminum retract that will last a long time. I found mine flew amazingly well just as you did. It puts an imediate smile on your face. I also have a 2.0m T-28 that should have come with everything this one does as you mentioned but once upgraded flys really well now too albeit at quite an additional expense. The Tucano though is the definition of smooth and felt dialed in from the first flight on. Mine took awhile to balance that 5 blade prop but the result was worth it. The Tucano is a great value for money and solves many of the shortfalls of the T-28. Eflite, are you listening?
Grrrr ugh another one! That's the sound my wallet is making right now, thanks for the honest and complete review. Adding this one to my hanger. Such a BA looking plane
Hobby king is back up running strong. Stick with the durafly and avios models they are all fantastic. You would love the avios albatross Land and sea. Twin prop. Hope you get one one day.
Good video and good info, thanks. I am still in the prcess of assembling and painting mine (doing the heritage schemed plane at the USAF Test Pilot School) and over all I am impressed with the fit and finish and overall quality. I have a few Avios planes and I have been happy with them. About my only gripe is at this price point, I would like to see nose gear doors. I ran into the same issue with my Avios Twin King, but I solved that by fitting a set of Freewing T-33 nose gear doors to it. I'm still looking for an easy nose gear door option for the Super Tucano.
What a great looking and flying plane! Thanks for another detailed, objective review. How are you liking the new flying field? Looks like a nice place to fly.
Love watching you do all the maneuvers I don’t have the balls or skills for! Glad you put up the AS3x numbers - I’m interested to see how my settings stack up. Did you move any of the ball links for more throws, or turn up the range on the servos? I have an early release from the first or second shipment - I’d be interested to see a close-up of the front retract reinforcing to see if mine has or needs it.
Pretty sure the linkages were left stock with 150 travel. You can look at your front retract and see if there's a wooden block above it. If there is, then you're good to go.
Thanks for the video. I really want to fly this one. Unfortunately that wiil have to wait. I will be away from any place I can fly for the next 5 months. When I get back I will send you some shots of what fit and finish issues I had. I may just order a replacement vertical stabilizer. The mold halves were not aligned and it has a significant step on the front where it meets the empennage. That occasionally happens from other manufacturers as well. I received 1 from the second shipment. I do not know if it has the nose modification done to it. I will stiffen up the elevator. I had already thought that might be an issue. I do like what I have seen so far. To not have to be as concerned flying of grass will be a relief. A change from the FMS PC21.
@@TwoBrosRC Appreciate it! My worry was transportation, Shouldn't be a problem if Wing comes out easy. Hoping my buddy lets me take it out of hanger for a maiden!!
While I don't buy warbirds to do crankshafts, I suppose it's good to know the flight characteristics of a model .Because many only look good. and are a handful to fly. I was super excited to catch this only 6 hrs old, and you say " grab one with my link. Yeah still on. Backorder :(
Hey Jon, thanks for the amazing review, as usual they are fair and unbiased. Question, can you explain what do you mean when you say it can't be flown on a neutral CG? Is it that it won't rotate or fly poorly etc? If so what CG would you recommend? Thanks
It's a nose heavy airplane by design. Unless you get the battery tray modded so you can move the pack to the center of the wings, it's going to fly nose heavy. Not in the sense that it flies poorly - just aerodynamically. It's always going to be positively stable. We did mention "it takes off and lands without struggling" in the agility section. 😉 The recommended CG would be as far aft as you can get it on the recommended pack. Don't be afraid to push the battery all the way to the rear.
Very much appreciate your response Jon. 👍🏻 it does clear things up for me, and thanks for the reminder in the "Agility Section" not sure how I missed that one. 😅 Cheers
@@TwoBrosRCI’m excited for that as well. From some teasers I’ve seen people running them on a gas setup. Is it safe to say that you’re going to be running an electric power plant when you get your hands on one?
Definitely isn't a beginner plane. Stick to less expensive aircraft that are less technically complex until you've built up enough stick time and experience that more expensive forays into model aviation will be successful.
Great video. I appreciate your content. I just posted a maiden video and would be honored for a view and comment. Thanks for your contributions to the hobby!!
Every Hobbyking plane I've bought in the past is cheap and feels cheap. The last one being the Steadfast was horrible cheap and nasty. It honestly put me off future purchases from them. Has this got any whiffs of cheapness? Thats whats putting me me off their new 105mm Sports Hawk.
No offence meant John but you have started to sound like other RUclips influencers that just thrust the product in our face and overlook all the negatives. Your assessment around fit and finish is way off. You never spoke about the ugly fuse joint, plastic wheels, poor foam quality, old style plastic control horns and clevises, canopy fitment and wing joint alignment issues, not to mention the thrust angle issue, extra motor wire length with no advantage. If it was fms or Freewing you wouldn’t stop complaining about the issues.
We don't account for "old style hinges" in our review system. That's a personal complaint you're making, not a reason why we'd ding this plane. How do you even quantify that? "Uses old style hinges - fail" - who defines what's new versus old in a hinge system? All we care about is if it's plastic hinged, and it is. What "ugly fuse joint" are you talking about? Ours looked fine. No idea why you think the foam quality is poor, it is objectively not. The canopy fit well on our airframe. There were zero wing joint alignment issues. No idea what you're talking about with regard to the thrust angle. We don't have any metrics for "motor wire length" and have no plans to add one, either. If FMS or FW made this plane, it would still get the same score it did here. Stop grasping at straws lol - no offense taken, but what you wrote comes off like you have a bone to pick with HobbyKing instead of us.
Your comment wasn't deleted. But if you keep acting like this, you're going to be hidden from the channel. We're not interested in petulant negativity.
HUH??? Are we looking at the same plane?? I have one from the 1st batch and disagree with essentially everything you said here. The ONLY thing you complained about that comes close to making sense is the fuse joint. Is it "ugly?" No. Could it be done better? Absolutely. But, it's not an eye sore or something that distracts from the looks of the model. As for your other gripes... Plastic wheels?? What foam model doesn't have plastic wheels? I can't think of any planes besides my 105mm EDFs that don't have plastic wheels. The foam/paint quality on mine is above average. I have seen better on a few models, but this is still up there and you can barely see foam cells in a few places on the plane. "Old style plastic control horns and clevises".......... I'm not even sure how to respond to that level of nit picking. 🙄 My canopy fits perfect and my wing joint alignment was perfect. No clue why you think there is an issue with the thrust angle. I have no flight problems with mine that would indicate a thrust angle problem. Some people think there is a thrust angle issue when a plane climbs under full throttle. Usually, they just have the plane very nose heavy and the elevator trim required to fly level at 1/2 throttle becomes more effective at full throttle and the plane climbs. Maybe look into that if yours is climbing at full throttle. "Extra motor wire length with no advantage." See above response to horns and clevises. 🤦♂ I can take any plane in my hangar and find something to nit pick... but to what end? Why do that? Why try and find something to complain about on a model that is done so well? Why not just enjoy a fantastic release? There were two REAL issues, in my opinion, on this one; and HK fixed both of those for the 2nd batch and beyond. So, to answer your comment of "Leave this comment on here and let others decide." I could not disagree more!
I love doing long high-speed runs, pretending I'm mowing down the enemy as it howls by. It is one of my favorites in my hanger. It is the touch-and-go queen. Fantastic review, John. You always kill it!
Thanks!
Thank you dude!
Looking forward for the mig 29 video, I've had the model with thrust vector for a few years and it's been a great fun jet. Hope you keep creating for the community. Happy holidays
Thanks so much dude!
Twenty times on two separate days is true dedication. Thanks Jon.
Just getting that content for you guys lol
I've seen 70+videos of yours and that's my 2nd 3nd comment! Great reviews and I bought 1.6m s.tucano for fpv platform and it's great 👍 keep up the honest reviews 💯
I agree Jon, one of the best releases of 2024. Love mine!
Yep, this one is top shelf, Ive been preaching it since it released, love mine!
John thanks for the review, happy to see it on the channel and that you are genuinely enjoying the model. Nice pushing of the flight envelope, nice to see.
Appreciate it! Glad you enjoyed it.
brother that final landing was juicy
Took me 10 months to get one but watched the site like a hawk and they came in stock in US. Came last week. Thanks for the video!
That's awesome! Glad it finally got to you.
Wow, what a beautiful plane. I just got my TT SWS, fan and 5065-450 motor and will be building her over the holiday, so looking forward to your follow-up.
Should be coming soon!
Beautiful bird! Merry Christmas!
I like warbid with tricycle landing gear..very elegant and timeless design..
Awesome video, thanks 👍
Although I don't always agree with your setups or reviews I definitely do with this one. I have flown this particular model without any gyro stabilizer as well as with and find it's equally as good. Its outstanding either way. Very good review on this model.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Was waiting for this review! Been looking at the super tucano or the freewing 80mm A10 as an headtracking fpv platform. I was dead set on the A10 but the tucano is looking better everytime I watch videos on it
The Tucano is a bit more affordable, but suffers from the distinct disadvantage of not being a Warthog. ;/
Same here . The a10 looks awesome fpv ! But this is stunning and the new banana hobby j20 looks fun too. So many options and different fpv experiences
@ right! I’d love the A10 to use for RC bomb drops and to fly scale missions meant for the warthog, but the tucano has a great flight time and is docile which would be perfect to learn fpv flying
@ yeah that flat time especially and the canopy space would be amazing . Can bring up a copilot in the back sales top
The canopy space in the Tucano is huge! The entire airframe itself is perfect for fpv
A warbird with retracts that performs crankshafts? That's pretty spectacular.
Pretty insane, isn't it?
Didn’t see any crankshafts
@@yeggs2156 they had some side slip but you get the idea.
Maiden yesterday. Flew 4 batteries, SMC HV5900. Average of 8 minutes. One of the best planes I have ever flown. She is an amazing beautiful bird.
@@yeggs2156 Were your eyes open?
Jello... Nice video
One of the best releases, especially for the price.
Best plane of 2024 hands down
Very cool, thank you. Maybe in future reviews, you could show how a plane behaves with gyro on and off? For comparison purposes.
You know, some of us 40+ model pilots in the eastern EU fly without gyros (we consider them as a work of devil and are afraid of them).
We're big proponents of gyros here on this channel so that would be quite a departure for us, but it's something to consider. Thanks!
That is very good idea. 👍
I got one of the first run models and had to replace the nose gear after encountering a grass windrow on landing. I replaced it with an all aluminum retract that will last a long time. I found mine flew amazingly well just as you did. It puts an imediate smile on your face. I also have a 2.0m T-28 that should have come with everything this one does as you mentioned but once upgraded flys really well now too albeit at quite an additional expense. The Tucano though is the definition of smooth and felt dialed in from the first flight on. Mine took awhile to balance that 5 blade prop but the result was worth it. The Tucano is a great value for money and solves many of the shortfalls of the T-28. Eflite, are you listening?
Grrrr ugh another one! That's the sound my wallet is making right now, thanks for the honest and complete review. Adding this one to my hanger. Such a BA looking plane
Hope it helped!
Hobby king is back up running strong. Stick with the durafly and avios models they are all fantastic. You would love the avios albatross
Land and sea. Twin prop. Hope you get one one day.
Good video and good info, thanks. I am still in the prcess of assembling and painting mine (doing the heritage schemed plane at the USAF Test Pilot School) and over all I am impressed with the fit and finish and overall quality. I have a few Avios planes and I have been happy with them. About my only gripe is at this price point, I would like to see nose gear doors. I ran into the same issue with my Avios Twin King, but I solved that by fitting a set of Freewing T-33 nose gear doors to it. I'm still looking for an easy nose gear door option for the Super Tucano.
What a great looking and flying plane! Thanks for another detailed, objective review. How are you liking the new flying field? Looks like a nice place to fly.
It's pretty awesome so far.
Love watching you do all the maneuvers I don’t have the balls or skills for! Glad you put up the AS3x numbers - I’m interested to see how my settings stack up. Did you move any of the ball links for more throws, or turn up the range on the servos? I have an early release from the first or second shipment - I’d be interested to see a close-up of the front retract reinforcing to see if mine has or needs it.
Pretty sure the linkages were left stock with 150 travel. You can look at your front retract and see if there's a wooden block above it. If there is, then you're good to go.
built a few scratch ones over the years , want this foamie
Hmmm, might need to pick one of these up
Thanks for the video. I really want to fly this one. Unfortunately that wiil have to wait. I will be away from any place I can fly for the next 5 months. When I get back I will send you some shots of what fit and finish issues I had. I may just order a replacement vertical stabilizer. The mold halves were not aligned and it has a significant step on the front where it meets the empennage. That occasionally happens from other manufacturers as well. I received 1 from the second shipment. I do not know if it has the nose modification done to it. I will stiffen up the elevator. I had already thought that might be an issue. I do like what I have seen so far. To not have to be as concerned flying of grass will be a relief. A change from the FMS PC21.
We need a pictures of how you transported the Tucano, Did you transport it with wing off?
Yep. Also put a foam block under the plane so it held the ventral antenna above the trunk floor.
@@TwoBrosRC Appreciate it! My worry was transportation, Shouldn't be a problem if Wing comes out easy. Hoping my buddy lets me take it out of hanger for a maiden!!
I do hope you can do a review on the Flightline Corsair.
Maybe one of these days!
Hey Jon great review as usual! Hey I'd like to see you do a review on Hobbyking's newest Yak11 Steadfas t Single Seat airplane if possible.
While I don't buy warbirds to do crankshafts, I suppose it's good to know the flight characteristics of a model .Because many only look good. and are a handful to fly.
I was super excited to catch this only 6 hrs old, and you say " grab one with my link. Yeah still on. Backorder :(
Hey Jon, thanks for the amazing review, as usual they are fair and unbiased.
Question, can you explain what do you mean when you say it can't be flown on a neutral CG? Is it that it won't rotate or fly poorly etc? If so what CG would you recommend?
Thanks
It's a nose heavy airplane by design. Unless you get the battery tray modded so you can move the pack to the center of the wings, it's going to fly nose heavy. Not in the sense that it flies poorly - just aerodynamically. It's always going to be positively stable. We did mention "it takes off and lands without struggling" in the agility section. 😉
The recommended CG would be as far aft as you can get it on the recommended pack. Don't be afraid to push the battery all the way to the rear.
Very much appreciate your response Jon. 👍🏻 it does clear things up for me, and thanks for the reminder in the "Agility Section" not sure how I missed that one. 😅
Cheers
You convinced me to buy the OMP Bighorn and Freewing 70mm F-16, looks like the Super Tucano is high on my 2025 list 😬😬😬
Bighorn is a such a great little plane. Can't wait to see the 100" version coming in the near future.
@@TwoBrosRCI’m excited for that as well. From some teasers I’ve seen people running them on a gas setup. Is it safe to say that you’re going to be running an electric power plant when you get your hands on one?
Yup. It'll be electric for us.
Hey John, great video, what’s your favorite plane, jet or prop?
No real favorites here, they're all good at different things!
wheres the link for the bird? I see everything but in the discro
bit.ly/SuperTucano
It's in the description too, but that should help. Thanks!
How would you rate this plane for a beginner with low flight time?
Definitely isn't a beginner plane. Stick to less expensive aircraft that are less technically complex until you've built up enough stick time and experience that more expensive forays into model aviation will be successful.
What size engine 40 series I have several Super Tiger all from Italy.
No idea.
I been wanting one of these but it seems like they went out of stock as soon as they went on sale and have never been back in stock.
That's unfortunate!
Can you give me your opinion on the Freewing L-15 6s? If you have ever seen it. I’m contemplating purchasing it because it is cheap for 6s.
Haven't flown it.
Is it good for beginners
Not really, no.
Can I buy yours Jon? They are on backorder until February
Haha no we're not parting with this anytime soon
@ worth a try
New airfield?
Covered it in the Viper 64 vid, check it out!
@@TwoBrosRC it's 50 min from me. Airport is 12 min. :)
Good luck! The new owner of the airport isn't super friendly to anything that isn't full scale aviation.
@@TwoBrosRC I'm almost full scale:)
Go me 🤣
Tucano???? Brazil!!!!!🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Ayup
good lord not availible til febuary some time
Unfortunate! If you want it, best consider putting in a backorder!
Great video. I appreciate your content. I just posted a maiden video and would be honored for a view and comment. Thanks for your contributions to the hobby!!
Every Hobbyking plane I've bought in the past is cheap and feels cheap. The last one being the Steadfast was horrible cheap and nasty. It honestly put me off future purchases from them. Has this got any whiffs of cheapness? Thats whats putting me me off their new 105mm Sports Hawk.
Nothing about it feels cheap on our end. They definitely didn't skimp on this one.
"Ozo"
🆗
No offence meant John but you have started to sound like other RUclips influencers that just thrust the product in our face and overlook all the negatives. Your assessment around fit and finish is way off. You never spoke about the ugly fuse joint, plastic wheels, poor foam quality, old style plastic control horns and clevises, canopy fitment and wing joint alignment issues, not to mention the thrust angle issue, extra motor wire length with no advantage. If it was fms or Freewing you wouldn’t stop complaining about the issues.
We don't account for "old style hinges" in our review system. That's a personal complaint you're making, not a reason why we'd ding this plane. How do you even quantify that? "Uses old style hinges - fail" - who defines what's new versus old in a hinge system? All we care about is if it's plastic hinged, and it is.
What "ugly fuse joint" are you talking about? Ours looked fine. No idea why you think the foam quality is poor, it is objectively not. The canopy fit well on our airframe. There were zero wing joint alignment issues. No idea what you're talking about with regard to the thrust angle. We don't have any metrics for "motor wire length" and have no plans to add one, either.
If FMS or FW made this plane, it would still get the same score it did here. Stop grasping at straws lol - no offense taken, but what you wrote comes off like you have a bone to pick with HobbyKing instead of us.
One of the best looking, if not THE best looking plane of 2024!
@@TwoBrosRC like how you edited your reply and deleted my response. Again biased review. Leave this comment on here and let others decide.
Your comment wasn't deleted. But if you keep acting like this, you're going to be hidden from the channel. We're not interested in petulant negativity.
HUH??? Are we looking at the same plane?? I have one from the 1st batch and disagree with essentially everything you said here. The ONLY thing you complained about that comes close to making sense is the fuse joint. Is it "ugly?" No. Could it be done better? Absolutely. But, it's not an eye sore or something that distracts from the looks of the model. As for your other gripes...
Plastic wheels?? What foam model doesn't have plastic wheels? I can't think of any planes besides my 105mm EDFs that don't have plastic wheels.
The foam/paint quality on mine is above average. I have seen better on a few models, but this is still up there and you can barely see foam cells in a few places on the plane.
"Old style plastic control horns and clevises".......... I'm not even sure how to respond to that level of nit picking. 🙄
My canopy fits perfect and my wing joint alignment was perfect.
No clue why you think there is an issue with the thrust angle. I have no flight problems with mine that would indicate a thrust angle problem. Some people think there is a thrust angle issue when a plane climbs under full throttle. Usually, they just have the plane very nose heavy and the elevator trim required to fly level at 1/2 throttle becomes more effective at full throttle and the plane climbs. Maybe look into that if yours is climbing at full throttle.
"Extra motor wire length with no advantage." See above response to horns and clevises. 🤦♂
I can take any plane in my hangar and find something to nit pick... but to what end? Why do that? Why try and find something to complain about on a model that is done so well? Why not just enjoy a fantastic release? There were two REAL issues, in my opinion, on this one; and HK fixed both of those for the 2nd batch and beyond. So, to answer your comment of "Leave this comment on here and let others decide." I could not disagree more!
Thanks!
Thank you dude!