I must be mad............

Subject: I must be mad............ Sun Dec 25, 2011 12:05 am

Well, as some of you have noticed, I've ended up with a couple of helis, a 3ch and a 6ch.

I then seemed to get bitten by an aviation bug, and went mad, omgblinky

Erm......

Yep, I've gone for a plane rofl

Oh, before we continue, that's a double bed that the box is sitting on, eek

Before I get on with more pics, a bit of info on it.

It's a Lanxiang F 22 Raptor, with 12 channels, yes, 12!!!!!

Twin 70mm EDF run with 2 x 2150kv motors, 2 x 50 amp esc, and powered by a 6s 22.2v 3600mah bty, capable of 2.5kgs of thrust.

The overall length is just over 1.5m, with a wingspan of just over a metre.

It has retractable landing gear, bomb release, smoke generators, vectored thrust, ejectable canopy AND pilot ( Suspect

) as well as the normal full flying capabilities.

Right, back to the piccies wink

Although it's an rtf model ( bnib ) it does require some making, lol

I must be mad............ IMG_8542

6 bombs, 6 droptanks ( which contain the smoke release ) - 4 of the tanks are ' live ' the other 2 are empty ( 2 spare smoke cans on the r/h/s of pic )

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Unbuilt, out of the box, having a rest on the bed lol - did I say it was fekn huge!!! rofl

Pilot and cockpit

I must be mad............ IMG_8545

Business end

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Close up of one of the two 70 mm fans

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Before the last pic, I won this off the bay for 150.52 plus postage. The 52p was all important, by 3 seconds!!!! wink

There are a couple of slight problems, for example, a lack of build instructions and another 2 of the bombs have broken fins ( that makes 8 in total, lol ) but there were a couple of things that more than make up for it lol.

I must be mad............ IMG_8548

That's right, Sports fans, I seem to have 2 sets of 12ch tx/rx ( both 2.4ghz ) 3 x 6s btys and a heap of other bits, including servos etc.
I've yet to see how many servos are spare, as some still need mounting to the frame, but hey!

I'm impressed british flag

( Needless to say, if any of you fine fellows and fellowettes could assist in tracking down some elusive instructions, it would be a great help wink

)

Enjoy the pics peeps, once it's built, more will follow - then everyone better start ducking lol!

Subject: Re: I must be mad............ Sun Dec 25, 2011 12:21 am

Awesome Iain!

Impressive looking bit of kit.
How much flying experience have you got with fixed wing?

PS.
Your insane!!! ;)

Subject: Re: I must be mad............ Sun Dec 25, 2011 12:23 am

Cheers fella GOOD

Last fixed wing I flew was about 23 years ago, lmao

I'll have to break myself in gently, but by all accounts, due to the wing surface of this, they're a friendly flyer very happy

Posts : 22 Join date : 2010-07-28

that will look ace wen its done ian m8 and u got a bargain there 3 6s battries and the 2 2.4g sets are probably as much as the winnin bid will look forward to seeing this go

Subject: Re: I must be mad............ Mon Dec 26, 2011 2:55 am

That is quite simply STUNNING
I want it
I would be scared to death of it, But I WANT IT

going to be a lovely bit of kit once built
an the price you won it for is blummin awesome, pretty sure it's got to be worth a whole load more than that, surely

Any way
Hurry up an learn to fly all there lovely new toys
We all want to see you .....,. Fly whistling

Posts : 22 Join date : 2010-07-28

ill volenteer to test fly it for ya ian GOOD

Subject: Re: I must be mad............ Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:14 pm

HOSS wrote:: That is quite simply STUNNING
I want it
I would be scared to death of it, But I WANT IT

Told you you would, rofl

There's going to be a lot of work going into it.....so it'll be baby steps, deep breaths and lots of crossed appendages, british flag

or maybe a case of bump

anthonyj3d wrote:: ill volenteer to test fly it for ya ian

I need to figure out how to build it first bud, rofl

Subject: Re: I must be mad............ Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:58 pm

Godamn they're good omgblinky

About 10 minutes ago, I sent Lanxiang an email, explaining how I got this 2nd hand, but no instructions......

They've just replied and attached the build guide as a pdf!!!!!

cheers

Nowt to stop me now...... partyhat

Subject: Re: I must be mad............ Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:58 am

Not taken pics as yet, but it's coming together rolleyes

the nose section is complete, with retract, eject and whatever the other two servo leads do british flag

I also have a strange Y lead harness stating ' ch4 direction ' which makes no sense whatsoever, I must be mad............ 662925

, but it's coming together whistling

On another note, the fans work..... they just blew my rug across the front room rofl

Subject: Re: I must be mad............ Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:01 am

Well, it's all done cheers

Apologies for the photo quality, these were taken with the phone, and not the big camera.

So here we go then.....

I must be mad............ Plane021

The next couple with the smoke dispensers and bombs attached

I must be mad............ Plane018

The confusing Y lead which I mentioned in the last post ended up plugging into another 2 wires coming from the nose landing gear. There's a servo for the retracting door, plus another servo for the steering nose gear ( yes, really!! ),

Then, another for the multi colour flashing ' landing light '

There's an absolute forest of wires stuffed into the fuselage, from the 13 !! servo's that are in there, although somewhat cheekily, the system only uses a maximum of 8 channels, as opposed to the 12 it states I must be mad............ 27995

Anyhoo, hope it looks good for you british flag

Subject: Re: I must be mad............ Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:11 am

That's is BLUMMIN Stunning smile

Nicely done GOOD

Subject: Re: I must be mad............ Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:13 am

Why thank you Sir GOOD

Of course, storage is a problem rofl

I've had to put the chair in the spare room onto one of the spare beds, and sit it on the floor under the spit, haha.

It only just fits british flag

Subject: Re: I must be mad............ Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:25 pm

Woah that thing looks awesome, now get that simulator practicing done and take it out. in fact im pretty sure your out with it at the moment with the amount of wind here in sheffield lol!