I found this plane on FB Marketplace and decided to buy it as it was new (still in the box) and a fair bit cheaper than retail price. It's a very cool looking plane with lots of nice details, but I can tell it's an older gen plane due to its fit & finish and how it went together. The newer Freewing planes go together a lot quicker and they are finished a bit nicer. That said, the F-15 Eagle 90mm is a stunning plane with all the bells and whistles, including lights and a working air brake. However, as a result of all these nice features, the plane feels a bit heavier that it should be and you can notice it in the air - it flies heavy. It's not a plane that can glide very well, let's put it that way. The HP system does its job well on 6S and although the plane isn't under-powered, I wouldn't mind if had a just a bit more power.
All right taking off.
That took off real nice. That's hands off, just climbing a little bit.
High altitude reconnaissance plane up there.
Yeah also on its maiden flight.
Still climbing a smidge.
Very responsive on the ailerons actually. All right fast pass.
Going up. Rolling down. Throttle off pass.
Man that looks good. That's low rates.
All right I'm going to try my flaps, see how that behaves.
Climbing a bit. Climbing. Okay so it needs a mix.
All right I'm going to come in guys. Just hold on one sec. Drop the gear.
Oh coming in hot.
Hey I lost it at the end.
Came in a bit hot. No flaps because I couldn't because it was just going to climb if I had flaps.
Here we go. Taking off.
I kind of feel like I need more elevator even though it's at 75%
especially on takeoff. Just needs a little bit more. All right let's try our flaps
and let's see how she behaves.
Oh yeah I think flaps is sorted. That's good. How about airbrake?
No you don't do airbrake in there because it'll push the plane down like crazy.
Geez it still rolls like crazy. It's an insane roll rate. Even at 65% I might
have to bring it down a bit more just to make it a bit more scale.
A little. Like this is full at low. Mid. Oh god I don't even want to try high rates
but let's try it eh? For a bit of funsies. So here high rate.
Bring it back to some kind of normality there.
Full flaps. That was much better isn't it? With flaps. Oh my god look at the suspension.
That suspension's nuts man.
I love the where it rotates when you pitch. What do you mean? Like it's really far back
at the rotation point. It's like back here. Yeah oh how it lifts. Yeah it just looks crazy.
