Always fun watching a drone guy unbox a scale fixed wing. It's a nice ideology but I don't think the manufacturer's pay any sort of 'homage' to anyone with their livery and finish choices, they make those decisions based on what sells, I have even been a part of the decision making of this sort of thing and I can tell you it is 100% driven by what will sell. Nicely flown
Thanks! The love of the hobby may have shown through and I might have been the one paying homage. I did end up painting the tail a sky blue and adding the tail number for more scale detail. Happy Flying!
I love my PT17 but now need to replace the gear. I got new gear from HH but it comes without wheels. So I need to remove the wheels from the old gear and install them on the new gear. Do you know how to remove the "hubcap"? It looks like it might just pop off but I don't want to force it. Thanks
Hi BCJ725, The hub caps are held on by 2 tangs that are 180 degrees from each other and at 90 degrees from them are 2 pry slots. If you get a very small flat screw driver you can slightly pry up the hub cap at the pry slots and gently push in on one of the tangs that secure the hub cap then just gently push in the other to release the entire hub cap off. By the way the wheels are held in by 2 E-clips and I added a washer just to spread the load on the E-clip better. The PT-17 is still one of my favorite planes to take to the field... Happy Flying!
Hi got one built it THEN COVID LOCKDOWN..... in the UK very strick on what you can do BUT after all these months lockdown is ending... Did you have any PROBS with the CG or constantly wanting to climb Stay well Brian London
Once trimmed with 4 clicks of down elevator it flew great with a Turnigy HD 2200mah 3S upfront. It is a scale flyer so elevator for speed and throttle for altitude worked best for me. Happy Flying!
Thanks for checking out my video! I agree, Spektrum radios can get pricey at times. I think that the main attraction is the customer service attached to them. The DSMX protocol is a pretty good protocol and the gimbals can be quite nice. I guess the menus are good if you are flying mostly Horizon Hobby bind and flys. My daily driver these days is the Radio Master TX16S with two ELRS modules, a Namimno on 2.4Ghz and the other a converted R9M on 900Mhz. Happy Flying!
Always fun watching a drone guy unbox a scale fixed wing. It's a nice ideology but I don't think the manufacturer's pay any sort of 'homage' to anyone with their livery and finish choices, they make those decisions based on what sells, I have even been a part of the decision making of this sort of thing and I can tell you it is 100% driven by what will sell. Nicely flown
Thanks! The love of the hobby may have shown through and I might have been the one paying homage. I did end up painting the tail a sky blue and adding the tail number for more scale detail.
Happy Flying!
Love the old-timey flight segments!
Thanks!
Bi planes are so much fun.
PT-17 is one of my favorites!
I love my PT17 but now need to replace the gear. I got new gear from HH but it comes without wheels. So I need to remove the wheels from the old gear and install them on the new gear. Do you know how to remove the "hubcap"? It looks like it might just pop off but I don't want to force it. Thanks
Hi BCJ725,
The hub caps are held on by 2 tangs that are 180 degrees from each other and at 90 degrees from them are 2 pry slots. If you get a very small flat screw driver you can slightly pry up the hub cap at the pry slots and gently push in on one of the tangs that secure the hub cap then just gently push in the other to release the entire hub cap off. By the way the wheels are held in by 2 E-clips and I added a washer just to spread the load on the E-clip better. The PT-17 is still one of my favorite planes to take to the field...
Happy Flying!
Very cool!
It's such a nice plane.
Hi got one built it THEN COVID LOCKDOWN..... in the UK very strick on what you can do BUT after all these months lockdown is ending... Did you have any PROBS with the CG or constantly wanting to climb
Stay well
Brian
London
Once trimmed with 4 clicks of down elevator it flew great with a Turnigy HD 2200mah 3S upfront. It is a scale flyer so elevator for speed and throttle for altitude worked best for me.
Happy Flying!
Unfortunately no longer available... Lucky you. Hold onto it and one day you'll have a classic.
The Dynam PT-17 looks promising...
So glad to not see spektrum 😆 JUST tired of the people affiliated with horizon and their overpriced spektrum shit
Thanks for checking out my video! I agree, Spektrum radios can get pricey at times. I think that the main attraction is the customer service attached to them. The DSMX protocol is a pretty good protocol and the gimbals can be quite nice. I guess the menus are good if you are flying mostly Horizon Hobby bind and flys. My daily driver these days is the Radio Master TX16S with two ELRS modules, a Namimno on 2.4Ghz and the other a converted R9M on 900Mhz.
Happy Flying!