My 1/6 BVM F-16 Walk-around and Realistic Flight Demonstration ‪@merlinpower100‬

Well hello everyone. Welcome to the channel. It's been a while since I've done any content but I'm out here at Glacier RC which is out in Whitefish, Montana. I'm a new member of the club out here and I came out here for a few days with my friend Russell to do some jet flying. So I've been flying my BVM-16 scale F-16 as well as my Zeroli F9M Panther. I thought I'd give you a little tour of the airplane and flight demonstration today so I hope you enjoy it. So this airplane, it's on its third flying season right now. I've got 36 flights on it. It's basically a stock PNP GoFly Gold 1-6 scale BVM-16. Just a wonderful airplane. I just love flying it. It's just solid and true and a little high alpha with the best of them. This one's powered by a King Tech K160 G2. It's about five years old. Good running motor. Works good. We're at about 3,400 feet elevation here and it does okay. I think a 180 would be better at this higher altitude but gets the job done. Let me show you the engine. Starting with the turbine install. Again, it's an older school King Tech 160 G2. I bought it new five years ago. Great running motor. It was completely rebuilt after I lost my first F-16 due to a power line incident. Some of you may have seen some coverage on that or some news. Anyway, just a basic install. It does have a smoke system. 2.2 liters of smoke, oil. See those tanks up there and then 3.3 liters of fuel. I set my timer for 6 minutes and 30 seconds and that'll give me about 27 ounces of fuel remaining which is basically enough to fly around the pattern once. It's got the upgraded crossmember here, the carbon fiber crossmember. Just in up front here, I've got two Pulse 3600 mAh 2-cell LiPos. They feed the Powerbox Competition SR2. Really love that unit. Works really, really well. Gives me some great confidence that all of these servos that are, you know, you're pushing 450 ounces of torque are going to get what they need to perform. So a great system. The display is here. Central control unit. Anybody that flies BVM is very familiar with these. Works great. Gear, brakes, solenoids. Lighting control is here. Fuel pump for the KingTec 160. I put an upgraded pump in here. It's the Powerbox smoke pump. Just the single outlet. I didn't need to do two. The smoke supply is just about right for what I fly. ECU is right here. I've got two GPS systems. One to feed the receiver which gets telemetry back to the transmitter. I've also got one up here that provides input to the Powerbox Competition SR2 to provide automatic gain control based on ground speed. So that works out pretty slick as well. For weight and balance, I like to fly this one a little about three quarters of an inch aft of what the recommended CG is. Receiver battery is up here. The turbine battery is back here. That's just a 3-cell life KingTec battery. I actually reduced the size down to 1400 because it was still a little nose heavy. So I just went with a smaller pack and I just recharge that every two flights. Each flight will use about 250 milliamps of power. I change out the flight packs after every two flights as well. They'll consume about 2400 total after two flights. And that's running the lights and smoke pump and all of that. So it's a great flying airplane. What I thought I'd do for you today is take it up for a demo. I kind of like to replicate what the Viper demo team does out on the airshow circuit. It's a lot of fun with the smoke and whatnot. So hope you enjoy it. Thanks for watching. Hope you enjoyed it. Thanks to my wife for filming.