Thanks Andy for this review on this bird being wanting to buy one for a while and now you have made my mind up and allso I have the 400mm zero I thought you would have one buy now cheers Rick
Glad I could help~! and yes, I have bought the Zero and made the Nose MOD on it too! the Video will out in a couple of weeks from now as I want to made it a Japanese segment prior the Eachine Video... it will be Unboxing - 24 July Maiden (Test Flight) - 28 July Nose MOD - 31 July you can Subscribe for notification or save the dates... at lease watch the MOD as I really really does not like how the plane look right out from the box! (it looks like a Duck or a goose to me) yuck!
I have all the axis of evil premier fighters, the Zero & Corsair F4U seem th fly the best, closely followed by the spitfire & p-51. Also a J-20 EDF, and F-22 raptor on a similar scale. This mustang is in the vid is much heftier. Stay up in the sky brotha!
Great video, I fly mine with two blades cut off the original prop. And 3s 300 mah spektrum battery and it absolutely rips, so far no overheating of the esc with just the two blade prop and 3s 300 mah 😊
@@AndyYuenRC Probably best to add a 7.5v buck convertor to break down a 3s battery voltage to the 2cell voltage the flight board is designed for. (Full battery voltage is supplied directly to the board.) A 7x5E Gemfan 2-blader livens this up on 2 cells but is a bit hard on the motor. 6x5.5E works OK. For 3s you'd want to go down to 6x4 I'd think. A fair amount of testing mentioned on the RCGroups thread on this plane.😊
Like the others have said it's not designed for 3s the esc would be at its limit and some at full throttle so I don't recommend it, so far for me it's held up. I just lessened the chance of the esc burning out by cutting the blades to 2. And probably just fly it without the gear also. But you should go the converter route to be safe 😂
I love mine! I got some coddar 650mah 100c lipos for it and it loves those batteries! The punch is definitely noticeable 🤌🏼 I wanna put a 2 maybe3 blade prop on it though and see if I can get a longer flight time✌🏽
hi andy, what battery can you recommend for this plane? is it ok to rip off some foam in the battery area so that it can fit bigger 2s batteries? thanks
@@AndyYuenRC Just the standard radio it came with. The XK transmitter with 4 buttons. It seems like they were never bound. Im having a similar issue with the Cub plane of the same brand, is there a way to get these to radios to bind? I wish I had money for a nice universal TX, but I don't right now
OK, we now have 3 of these on site and can comment on them. The Chinglish Destruction Manual is 1 of the worst that I have seen! If it did not have pictures you would be hard pressed to understand anything that it is saying. Although 2-cell brushless powered it does not seem any more zippy than the little 400mm V761 Mini Warbirds. It does fly quite pleasantly though and can (with some difficulty as the flight board can only be run on 2-cell voltages) be upgraded to 3-cell capability which livens it up quite a bit. (Read through the RCGroups thread on it.) Your description of how the mode buttons work there seemed a bit off Andy. The 6G/3D button switches between 6G (Self Leveling with pitch/roll limits, Beginner or Angle Mode) - solid Tx LED- and 3D (Wind Correction Only, AS3X or Rate Mode - with no self-leveling or pitch/roll limits) - blinking Tx LED. Pressing the 6G/Senior button completely disables the 6G/3D mode (whichever is selected at the time) and goes to fully Manual control - Tx LED blinking. Pressing that button again returns the Mode to 6G and Tx LED off. There is a section in the "Manual" called "Remote potentiometer calibration" (with sticks at center and throttle fully down hold Rudder Trim fully right and turn Tx on - the Tx LED will come on and the Tx beep twice = completed.) I don't know whether this is just an initial "Sticks Calibration" for the Tx OR if it is meant to be done as a "Learn Radio Calibration" to tell the plane's flight controller that this is what it should view as "Sticks Centered" for the 6G self-leveling function after you have added electrical trims when first flying in Manual (Senior.) Actually we don't even know yet if the trim values are retained after a power cycle. 1 thing that SHOULD be done as soon as you get this is take the flight board out (screwed in) and add some epoxy to better hold the tabs of the on-board servos down securely. They have only 1 screw + a tab holding them down and several users have had the tab pull out and allow the servo to rotate off the board. Causes the loss of travel in your Rudder or Elevator! Fix it before it causes trouble! 🙄😁 Also note that the Tx is only supplied as Mode 2 with the Throttle on the left but can be switched to Mode 1 (and even Mode 3 & 4) quite easily by swapping the gimbals and holding the Aileron Trim hard left while powering on the Tx. (Pictures in the manual.) The thin 4-blade props are relatively springy and can take a bit of a bump if you nose-over in the grass with power off, but will break if you hit something head on. They fit on a 6mm shaft with 2 flats (diameter 5mm) so to replace them with generic 2 or 3-bladers you will need 6mm bore props (or 5mm, a file and a steady hand and good eye!) Unless you are a Top Gun Flier flying off tarmac I'd leave the drop tanks and supplied landing gear for display purposes. 😉 Edit. The motor failsafes to OFF after about 3 seconds of no signal. It also resumes automatically on reconnecting. The Stabilization Mode defaults to 6G from either Senior or 3D on loss of signal and remains there (until switched) on reconnecting.
very insightful! just wished that in my current field, there are people like you who are interested in small and fun planes! the discussion and flight talk would be a totally different experience
Are you suggesting to just belly land this plane in the grass with no landing gear and drop tanks? You basically said that but I just wanted to double check. I just got mine delivered today.
@@StickJockeyFPV Yep. They'll just get ripped off by dragging them in the grass! We just glued in 2 loops of heavy zipties or line trimmer cord under the wings instead - projecting forward of the wings to act as springy landing gear. Works a treat! 😉
@@StickJockeyFPV Yeah, belly landing on grass, is best to have it removed. if not, the gear will bent and the drop tanks will strip right out from the wings! Yikes!!!!
There is a 3volt DSM satellite receiver socket on the plane's flight board (also a 5volt S-bus one - don't mix them up!) so you can bind your Spektrum radio to that and control the plane. OR buy a proper Multi Protocol Radio so you can fly this, about another 100 different protocol UAVs AND all your Spektrum gear with the 1 radio! 😉
![[UNBOXING] Testing on the Wltoys XK A280 RC Brushless P51 Mustang 3D6G Mode Stunt Fighter Plane](/img/n.gif)
Great use of slow-mo and other effects to make thid video engaging! I want one of these planes now!
Beautiful!
Thank you! 😊
Great Review! The photography is awesome. Thank you.
Thanks Andy for this review on this bird being wanting to buy one for a while and now you have made my mind up and allso I have the 400mm zero I thought you would have one buy now cheers Rick
Glad I could help~! and yes, I have bought the Zero and made the Nose MOD on it too! the Video will out in a couple of weeks from now as I want to made it a Japanese segment prior the Eachine Video...
it will be
Unboxing - 24 July
Maiden (Test Flight) - 28 July
Nose MOD - 31 July
you can Subscribe for notification or save the dates... at lease watch the MOD as I really really does not like how the plane look right out from the box! (it looks like a Duck or a goose to me) yuck!
Corsair > Zero
I have all the axis of evil premier fighters, the Zero & Corsair F4U seem th fly the best, closely followed by the spitfire & p-51. Also a J-20 EDF, and F-22 raptor on a similar scale. This mustang is in the vid is much heftier. Stay up in the sky brotha!
Excellent review the best one I've seen for this plane. I'm waiting for mine to come in the mail. Cheers 👍
Hope you enjoy it!
Nice review
Great video, I fly mine with two blades cut off the original prop. And 3s 300 mah spektrum battery and it absolutely rips, so far no overheating of the esc with just the two blade prop and 3s 300 mah 😊
Nice 👍 would love to tried mine on 2 blade!
@@AndyYuenRC Probably best to add a 7.5v buck convertor to break down a 3s battery voltage to the 2cell voltage the flight board is designed for. (Full battery voltage is supplied directly to the board.) A 7x5E Gemfan 2-blader livens this up on 2 cells but is a bit hard on the motor. 6x5.5E works OK. For 3s you'd want to go down to 6x4 I'd think. A fair amount of testing mentioned on the RCGroups thread on this plane.😊
did you just chuck in some 3s battery and the esc held up?? no customised convertor needed?
Like the others have said it's not designed for 3s the esc would be at its limit and some at full throttle so I don't recommend it, so far for me it's held up. I just lessened the chance of the esc burning out by cutting the blades to 2. And probably just fly it without the gear also. But you should go the converter route to be safe 😂
I love mine! I got some coddar 650mah 100c lipos for it and it loves those batteries! The punch is definitely noticeable 🤌🏼 I wanna put a 2 maybe3 blade prop on it though and see if I can get a longer flight time✌🏽
Nice 👍
how long flight time on 650mah?
@arisafif-j5m I get around 4 mins of full throttle all out flying and 6 to 7 mins of cruising 👍🏻
khi bạn cất cánh bạn dùng chế độ 6G hay senior sẽ dễ hơn vậy ?
việc cất cánh ở chế độ 6G sẽ dễ dàng hơn nhiều
A280~2S.3S😊👌
So it can handle a 3s 500?
@@snauzze7007OK
hi andy, what battery can you recommend for this plane? is it ok to rip off some foam in the battery area so that it can fit bigger 2s batteries? thanks
am still using 2s that the factory supply.
you can do some mod but remember to check the CG!
@@AndyYuenRC by the way, is it ok to use 3s 25c 2000mah to this plane? it has the same size with the stock battery
Without landing gear and pop off propeller, how do u keep the landing from destroying either the prop or the motor/ mount?
Land on grass and flare at the moment before the plane touch the grass…
@@AndyYuenRC & a 2 blade prop!
Hi pps, how do you get an xk tx to bind & frequency match? I can’t get my mid size p51 to link. Any suggestions or help appreciated. Happy sky day.
are you linking it to radiomaster? multi protocal?
@@AndyYuenRC Just the standard radio it came with. The XK transmitter with 4 buttons. It seems like they were never bound. Im having a similar issue with the Cub plane of the same brand, is there a way to get these to radios to bind? I wish I had money for a nice universal TX, but I don't right now
Where is this flying ground?
it is at Cyber 10
OK, we now have 3 of these on site and can comment on them. The Chinglish Destruction Manual is 1 of the worst that I have seen! If it did not have pictures you would be hard pressed to understand anything that it is saying.
Although 2-cell brushless powered it does not seem any more zippy than the little 400mm V761 Mini Warbirds. It does fly quite pleasantly though and can (with some difficulty as the flight board can only be run on 2-cell voltages) be upgraded to 3-cell capability which livens it up quite a bit. (Read through the RCGroups thread on it.)
Your description of how the mode buttons work there seemed a bit off Andy. The 6G/3D button switches between 6G (Self Leveling with pitch/roll limits, Beginner or Angle Mode) - solid Tx LED- and 3D (Wind Correction Only, AS3X or Rate Mode - with no self-leveling or pitch/roll limits) - blinking Tx LED.
Pressing the 6G/Senior button completely disables the 6G/3D mode (whichever is selected at the time) and goes to fully Manual control - Tx LED blinking. Pressing that button again returns the Mode to 6G and Tx LED off.
There is a section in the "Manual" called "Remote potentiometer calibration" (with sticks at center and throttle fully down hold Rudder Trim fully right and turn Tx on - the Tx LED will come on and the Tx beep twice = completed.) I don't know whether this is just an initial "Sticks Calibration" for the Tx OR if it is meant to be done as a "Learn Radio Calibration" to tell the plane's flight controller that this is what it should view as "Sticks Centered" for the 6G self-leveling function after you have added electrical trims when first flying in Manual (Senior.) Actually we don't even know yet if the trim values are retained after a power cycle.
1 thing that SHOULD be done as soon as you get this is take the flight board out (screwed in) and add some epoxy to better hold the tabs of the on-board servos down securely. They have only 1 screw + a tab holding them down and several users have had the tab pull out and allow the servo to rotate off the board. Causes the loss of travel in your Rudder or Elevator! Fix it before it causes trouble! 🙄😁
Also note that the Tx is only supplied as Mode 2 with the Throttle on the left but can be switched to Mode 1 (and even Mode 3 & 4) quite easily by swapping the gimbals and holding the Aileron Trim hard left while powering on the Tx. (Pictures in the manual.)
The thin 4-blade props are relatively springy and can take a bit of a bump if you nose-over in the grass with power off, but will break if you hit something head on. They fit on a 6mm shaft with 2 flats (diameter 5mm) so to replace them with generic 2 or 3-bladers you will need 6mm bore props (or 5mm, a file and a steady hand and good eye!) Unless you are a Top Gun Flier flying off tarmac I'd leave the drop tanks and supplied landing gear for display purposes. 😉
Edit. The motor failsafes to OFF after about 3 seconds of no signal. It also resumes automatically on reconnecting. The Stabilization Mode defaults to 6G from either Senior or 3D on loss of signal and remains there (until switched) on reconnecting.
very insightful! just wished that in my current field, there are people like you who are interested in small and fun planes! the discussion and flight talk would be a totally different experience
Are you suggesting to just belly land this plane in the grass with no landing gear and drop tanks? You basically said that but I just wanted to double check. I just got mine delivered today.
@@StickJockeyFPV Yep. They'll just get ripped off by dragging them in the grass! We just glued in 2 loops of heavy zipties or line trimmer cord under the wings instead - projecting forward of the wings to act as springy landing gear. Works a treat! 😉
@@theoztreecrasher2647 That's a good idea! Do you happen to have a picture or video of it that I could see?
@@StickJockeyFPV Yeah, belly landing on grass, is best to have it removed. if not, the gear will bent and the drop tanks will strip right out from the wings! Yikes!!!!
Will this plane work with a Spektrum recover like the DX 6 or DX 8?
you will need a Multi Protocol compatible Radio for this to bind to a professional radio.
There is a 3volt DSM satellite receiver socket on the plane's flight board (also a 5volt S-bus one - don't mix them up!) so you can bind your Spektrum radio to that and control the plane. OR buy a proper Multi Protocol Radio so you can fly this, about another 100 different protocol UAVs AND all your Spektrum gear with the 1 radio! 😉
Good job putting in the slow motion. Shows off a great looking.plane
Emotional vid - great payback for the money