Definitely a fast plane. Crashed mine and waiting on the fuse to come back in stock so took the motor out and installed in my Eflite F-16 Thunderbirds and hit 122.8 in level flight on the Spektrum GPS unit. Your video gave me some reassurance that the Spektrum GPS is fairly accurate. Great vid!! UPDATE: Replaced fuse and installed a Freewing 2210kv motor and a 100amp Eflite esc also repainted to a Blue Angels paint scheme and hit 126.3 top speed straight and level flight with a 3300mah 100c Yowoo graphene battery. This jet has enough thrust that I have started flying a Gens Ace 5600mah 80c pack and getting 6+ minutes of flight time flying mixed throttle. Jet handles pretty much the same as with the lighter packs but almost doubles the time in the air. Jet has become my go to edf and coupled with a Spektrum AR637TA receiver I’m using the Spektrum gps telemetry module and no longer worried about setting a timer with having pack voltage telemetry by splicing the power wires and plugging into the voltage input port. Currently switching my non Eflite fleet over to this receiver since it can give pack telemetry regardless of what brand esc I use. Not having to worry about hitting low voltage cut off has made flying SO much more enjoyable by removing the guesswork and fear of power loss especially on an edf. Can’t beat having speed, altitude, and pack voltage callouts on a switch to keep from having to look away from the plane and then find it in the air again to physically see the telemetry screen. Keep it up fellas!!
The field must be freshly cut for you F18 to get off that easily. We have 375ft and my F18 took all but 3 inches of it. My club president just got rid of his after it would not get off the grass too many times. You're right once it got up she flew great and yes a good head wind is must to get this bird off grass even with flaps. But all and all a great flyer if I got it off the strip.😏🛫
It actually gets off the ground decently with out it being freshly cut but we fly off Like a centipede mix.its got the power to blast through it. Our field is 600ft and drops down 17ft so that helps too!! But it is a food flyer..definitely not a beginner jet!
I had one of these and while it flew well (and sounded good), it seemed well under-powered. It would not rotate off grass without flaps, (or 200' of grass) and it felt mushy in turns at anything below 60-70% throttle. I guess I had a dodgy one. (it was a v2 also). - I wound up selling mine. I may have to get another one and give it a try.....(especially after seeing the new Maverick movie) 😁😎
I have a FMS FA18F V2 70mm and it is a beast on speed,all stock,very strong verticals and turns are solid,i love how it sounds also.here is a sample from my youtube ruclips.net/video/V4t9y0E-smg/видео.html
I have both. The Eflite definitely looks better and is quite a bit bigger but is much harder to fly than the FMS 70mm. The FMS also lands much easier than the bigger Eflite which can stall in turns and on final if you lose too much airspeed. Imo there’s a much bigger pucker factor flying the Eflite and the FMS is more enjoyable to fly for that reason.
thanx for sharing the vid
Thanks for watching!
Nice work! This was my first edf and my second plane. I love mine. I fly off grass with mine.
I think its a good solid choice! If you can handel an FA-18 you can handel anything!
Anychance you could tell me the weight of the plane without lipo please?
Good job as always guy's!
Our pleasure!
Nice plane and flying. Tom Cruise would be proud.
awesome video as usual 👌 👏
Thanks Roadkill UK! 🇬🇧
Definitely a fast plane. Crashed mine and waiting on the fuse to come back in stock so took the motor out and installed in my Eflite F-16 Thunderbirds and hit 122.8 in level flight on the Spektrum GPS unit. Your video gave me some reassurance that the Spektrum GPS is fairly accurate. Great vid!!
UPDATE: Replaced fuse and installed a Freewing 2210kv motor and a 100amp Eflite esc also repainted to a Blue Angels paint scheme and hit 126.3 top speed straight and level flight with a 3300mah 100c Yowoo graphene battery. This jet has enough thrust that I have started flying a Gens Ace 5600mah 80c pack and getting 6+ minutes of flight time flying mixed throttle. Jet handles pretty much the same as with the lighter packs but almost doubles the time in the air. Jet has become my go to edf and coupled with a Spektrum AR637TA receiver I’m using the Spektrum gps telemetry module and no longer worried about setting a timer with having pack voltage telemetry by splicing the power wires and plugging into the voltage input port. Currently switching my non Eflite fleet over to this receiver since it can give pack telemetry regardless of what brand esc I use. Not having to worry about hitting low voltage cut off has made flying SO much more enjoyable by removing the guesswork and fear of power loss especially on an edf. Can’t beat having speed, altitude, and pack voltage callouts on a switch to keep from having to look away from the plane and then find it in the air again to physically see the telemetry screen. Keep it up fellas!!
beautiful flight, can you tell me where can i buy the f18? thanks bye
Raleighhobbyshop.com or Towerhobbies or FMS
Grazie
Hard to see is why I let Crazy Eddy do the LA Arctic scheme on mine, fun one zoom zoom, Jeff in LA USA
Nice!!! 😎
that is fast but I got 123mph on a dive with a eflite 70mm viper!
excellent review very open and honest!
Thanks!!
123 is fast but I got 120 on v900 on 3s 🙃 ... half the Es'es
The field must be freshly cut for you F18 to get off that easily. We have 375ft and my F18 took all but 3 inches of it. My club president just got rid of his after it would not get off the grass too many times. You're right once it got up she flew great and yes a good head wind is must to get this bird off grass even with flaps. But all and all a great flyer if I got it off the strip.😏🛫
It actually gets off the ground decently with out it being freshly cut but we fly off
Like a centipede mix.its got the power to blast through it. Our field is 600ft and drops down 17ft so that helps too!! But it is a food flyer..definitely not a beginner jet!
Got mine up (used but stock) today. 4000 sococin and I got 160 and yes I have pics of the gps unit!
Nice job guys!!! too fast for SlowJo but fun to watch : )
Lol bikes are too fast too
Dang 122mph that’s way way faster than the one I had, I must have had a dud! 👍🏼
Lol either that or you had a heck of a head wind!!
@@RCPlaneReviewer Lol no mines was a dud, now I want another if it’ll fly like yours!
I had one of these and while it flew well (and sounded good), it seemed well under-powered. It would not rotate off grass without flaps, (or 200' of grass) and it felt mushy in turns at anything below 60-70% throttle. I guess I had a dodgy one. (it was a v2 also). - I wound up selling mine.
I may have to get another one and give it a try.....(especially after seeing the new Maverick movie) 😁😎
Yeah mine here wasn't like that at all! Lots of power and lots of speed! No mushy turns just strong movements
I have a FMS FA18F V2 70mm and it is a beast on speed,all stock,very strong verticals and turns are solid,i love how it sounds also.here is a sample from my youtube ruclips.net/video/V4t9y0E-smg/видео.html
113 mph with 40 mph downwind
That would make it 153mph lol
💣 💥 speed ))))
Thank you!!😁
😯
Ooooowwwhhh!! 122mph yes!!
@@RCPlaneReviewer
Between the 80mm E-Flite F-18 and the FMS 70mm F-18, which would you choose? (I can actually get my hands on a lightly used 80mm)
Oooh the E-Flite f-18 all day!!
@@RCPlaneReviewer thanks! I was just wondering because you also give the 70mm a solid review.
@@RCPlaneReviewer did you have to make any modifications to the 80mm E-Flite to help on the grass? Which battery do you usually use?
@@northernrcflyer not at all it rotates off 1/4 grass with no problems. I used a 5000mah Hrb lipo
I have both. The Eflite definitely looks better and is quite a bit bigger but is much harder to fly than the FMS 70mm. The FMS also lands much easier than the bigger Eflite which can stall in turns and on final if you lose too much airspeed. Imo there’s a much bigger pucker factor flying the Eflite and the FMS is more enjoyable to fly for that reason.
is the grass at your field , mowed like a golf course ? Rolled smooth , hard to tell but always looks like jets take off real nice , jet is cool !!!!
It's cut to about a 1/4 inch but it was rolled years ago. It's not like a gold course but close!!!
How will it do with a gyro?
Even better!!
@@RCPlaneReviewer great! You think I could swap the missiles for a free wing f16 set? These don’t look very good lol
@@ALonelyCorsair I'm sure it could work
Great video as always fellas!! We need to get the Eflite and the FMS F18’s up together and see what happens 👊🏼
I have both. They’re both beautiful jets but the FMS is way easier to fly (and land). Lol